Battle of Okehazama
The Battle of Okehazama (桶狭間の戦い, Okehazama-no-tatakai) took place on 12 June 1560 in Owari Province, in today's Aichi Prefecture. In this battle, the heavily outnumbered Oda clan troops, commanded by Oda Nobunaga, defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto and established Oda as one of the front-running warlords in the Sengoku period.
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| Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||||
Ukiyo-e of the Battle of Okehazama by Utagawa Toyonobu | |||||||||
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Imagawa clan Matsudaira clan | Oda clan | ||||||||
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| 25,000 | 2,000–3,000 | ||||||||
Location within Aichi Prefecture Battle of Okehazama (Japan) | |||||||||
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