Battle of Batogahara | |||||||
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Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ikkō-ikki monks | Matsudaira clan and Jōdo-shū monks | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Kuzei Honda Masanobu Natsume Yoshinobu Hachiya Sadatsugu |
Matsudaira Motoyasu Sakai Tadatsugu Ishikawa Kazumasa Honda Shigetsugu Kōriki Kiyonaga Amano Yasukage Ōkubo Tadayo Sakakibara Yasumasa Honda Tadakatsu | ||||||
The Battle of Azukizaka (小豆坂の戦い, Azukizaka no tatakai) or Battle of Batō-ga-hara (馬頭原の戦い, Batō-ga-hara no tatakai) took place on 15 February 1564, when Matsudaira Motoyasu (later renamed Tokugawa Ieyasu), sought to destroy the growing threat of the Ikkō-ikki, a league of monks, samurai, and peasants who were strongly against samurai rule.