Back Siège d'Akasaka French Assedio di Akasaka Italian 赤坂城の戦い Japanese Опсада тврђаве Акасака Serbian 赤坂城之戰 Chinese
| Siege of Akasaka Castle | |||||||||
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| Part of The Genkō War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Imperial forces |
 Hōjō forces | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Kusunoki Masashige Kusunoki Shichiro | Hōjō Sadatadashi | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 500[1] | 10,000[2] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 1000 (est.) | |||||||||
The siege of Akasaka was one of the earlier battles of the Genkō War between the figurehead Emperor Godaigo and the largely Hōjō controlled Kamakura shogunate during the final years of the Kamakura period in Japan. The battle in question was fought at Shimo Akasaka-jō (下赤坂城), or (English: Lower Akasaka fortress), a fortress built upon Mount Yoshino near modern-day Osaka in the former Kawachi Province in Osaka Prefecture.[3]
- ^ Turnbull, Stephen (1977). The Samurai, A Military History. MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 97. ISBN 0026205408.
- ^ Morris, Ivan (1975). The Nobility of Failure. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 118. ISBN 9780030108112.
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kawachi" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 496, p. 496, at Google Books.
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