Battle of Okehazama

Battle of Okehazama
	Part of the Sengoku period
	; Ukiyo-e of the Battle of Okehazama by Utagawa Toyonobu
Date	12 June 1560
Location	Dengaku-hazama, Toyoake, Owari Province, Japan35°03′01″N 136°59′48″E / 35.05028°N 136.99667°E
Result	Oda clan victory Survival of the Oda clan;
Territorial; changes	Imagawa threat to Owari Province removed
Belligerents
Imagawa clan; Matsudaira clan	Oda clan
Commanders and leaders
Imagawa Yoshimoto †; Matsui Munenobu †; Iio Noritsura †; Ii Naomori †; Okabe Motonobu; Udono Nagateru;	Oda Nobunaga; Maeda Toshiie; Shibata Katsuie; Sakuma Nobumori; Ikeda Tsuneoki; Kawajiri Hidetaka; Sassa Masatsugu †;
Strength
25,000	2,000–3,000
	class=notpageimage\| Location within Aichi Prefecture Battle of Okehazama (Japan)

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.^[2]

^ (Research by Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office)
^ A Military History of Japan by John Kuehn p. 102

[1] (Research by Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office)

[2] A Military History of Japan by John Kuehn p. 102

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