Battle of Uedahara

Battle of Uedahara
	Part of the Sengoku period
	; Uedahara today
Date	February 14, 1548
Location	Uedahara, Shinano Province (now Ueda, Nagano Prefecture)36°23′44.5″N 138°12′47.9″E / 36.395694°N 138.213306°E
Result	Murakami victory
Belligerents
Takeda clan	Murakami clan [ja]
Commanders and leaders
Takeda Shingen; Itagaki Nobukata †; Amari Torayasu †; Hajikano Den'emon †	Murakami Yoshikiyo
Strength
7,000	3,000
Casualties and losses
700 men	120
	class=notpageimage\| Location within Nagano Prefecture Battle of Uedahara (Japan)

The Battle of Uedahara (上田原の戦い) was the first defeat suffered by Takeda Shingen,^[1] and the first field battle in Japan in which firearms were used. It took place in Shinano Province or the modern-day Nagano Prefecture.^[2]

^ Turnbull, Stephen (2013). Kawanakajima 1553–64: Samurai power struggle. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 27, 30. ISBN 9781846036521.
^ Turnbull, Stephen (2019). Samurai vs Ashigaru: Japan 1543–75. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-4728-3242-9.

[:1-1] Turnbull, Stephen (2013). Kawanakajima 1553–64: Samurai power struggle. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 27, 30. ISBN 9781846036521.

[:2-2] Turnbull, Stephen (2019). Samurai vs Ashigaru: Japan 1543–75. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-4728-3242-9.

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