Battle of Kinugasa Castle

Battle of Kinugasa Castle
Part of Genpei War
Monument of the Kinugasa Castle
Date August 26, 1180 Jishō calendar Location Kinugasa Castle [jp], Sagami Province (modern day Kinagusa [jp] Yokosuka) Result Taira clan victory
Belligerents
Taira clan	Miura clan (pro-Minamoto)
Commanders and leaders
Hatakeyama Shigetada Edo Shigenaga Shigeyori Kawagoe [jp]	Miura Yoshizumi [jp] Yoshiaki Miura [jp]  †
Units involved
"several thousand"/2,000[1][2]	450

The Battle of Kinugasa Castle (衣笠城合戦, Kinugasa Jō Kassen) was a battle between the Taira (and its 2 branches, the Edo and Chichibushi [jp] clans) against the pro-Minamoto Miura clan that took place on August 26, 1180 (Jishō calendar) (September 17, 1180 Julian calendar) at Kinugasa Castle in Sagami Province, which is now Kinugasa Town, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture.^[1][3] It was one of the battles in the Genpei War, a civil war over control of the Imperial Family and Japan.