Battle of Tedorigawa

Battle of Tedorigawa
Part of the Sengoku period
Tedori river in 2012
Date November 3, 1577 Location Tedori River, Kaga Province 36°28′N 136°29′E / 36.467°N 136.483°E / 36.467; 136.483 Result Uesugi clan victory
Belligerents
Uesugi clan	Oda clan
Commanders and leaders
Uesugi Kenshin Uesugi Kagetora Uesugi Kagekatsu Shibata Naganori Saitō Tomonobu Jōjō Masashige Honjō Shigenaga Naoe Kanetsugu Yusa Tsugumitsu	Oda Nobunaga Shibata Katsuie Maeda Toshiie Sassa Narimasa Akechi Mitsuhide Hashiba Hideyoshi Ikeda Tsuneoki Niwa Nagahide Takigawa Kazumasu
Strength
30,000[1]	50,000[1]
Casualties and losses
Unknown	1,000 men, many more drowned
class=notpageimage| Location within Ishikawa Prefecture Show map of Ishikawa Prefecture Battle of Tedorigawa (Japan) Show map of Japan

The Battle of Tedorigawa (手取川の戦い, Tedorigawa no Tatakai) took place near the Tedori River in Japan's Kaga Province in 1577, between the forces of Oda Nobunaga against Uesugi Kenshin. This was destined to be Kenshin's last great battle. Kenshin tricked Nobunaga into launching a frontal attack across the Tedorigawa and defeated him. Having suffered the loss of 1,000 men, the Oda withdrew south. The battle site is in the modern-day Ishikawa Prefecture.