Siege of Odawara (1561)
| First Siege of Odawara | |||||||||
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| Part of Sengoku period | |||||||||
One corner tower of Odawara Castle today | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Uesugi clan forces | Hōjō clan forces | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Uesugi Kenshin Uesugi Norimasa Satomi Yoshihiro Oda Ujiharu Utsunomiya Hirotsuna Satake Yoshiaki Oyama Hidetsuna Nasu Suketane Ōta Sukemasa Mita Tsunahide Narita Nagayasu |
Hōjō Ujiyasu Hōjō Ujimasa Hōjō Ujiteru Hōjō Tsunashige | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 90,000–113,000 | 15,000 | ||||||||
Location within Kanagawa Prefecture Siege of Odawara (1561) (Japan) | |||||||||
In the 1561 siege of Odawara, a battle of Japan's Sengoku period, Uesugi Kenshin attacked Odawara castle. This was the first of several sieges which would befall Odawara castle, the home castle of the Hōjō clan.