| Battle of Akatsuka | |||||||||
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| Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||||
 Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) was but a minor young daimyo at the time of the battle. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Oda clan |
 Imagawa clan | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Oda Nobunaga Naitō Shōsuke Hasegawa Kyōsuke Hachiya Yoritaka | Yamaguchi Noriyoshi | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 800 | 1,500 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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30 Samurai Unknown Ashigaru | Light | ||||||||
  Location within Aichi Prefecture  Battle of Akatsuka (Japan) | |||||||||
Battle of Akatsuka (or Akazuka, May 10, 1552) was the first recorded battle of the young Oda Nobunaga in his struggle to unite the province of Owari, against one of the former vassals of his late father (Oda Nobuhide, died in 1551), who switched his allegiance to the powerful Imagawa clan of Suruga province.[1][2]
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Ōta, Gyūichi (2011). The chronicle of Lord Nobunaga. J. S. A. Elisonas, Jeroen Pieter Lamers. Leiden: Brill. pp. 64–66. ISBN 978-90-04-20456-0. OCLC 743693801.