| Siege of Akasaka Castle | |||||||||
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| Part of The Genkō War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Imperial forces |
 Hōjō forces | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Kusunoki Masashige Kusunoki Shichiro | Hōjō Sadatadashi | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 500[1] | 10,000[2] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 1000 (est.) | |||||||||
The siege of Akasaka was one of the earlier battles of the Genkō War between the figurehead Emperor Godaigo and the largely Hōjō-controlled Kamakura shogunate during the final years of the Kamakura period in Japan. The battle in question was fought at Shimo Akasaka-jō (下赤坂城), or (English: Lower Akasaka fortress), a fortress built upon Mount Yoshino near modern-day Osaka in the former Kawachi Province in Osaka Prefecture.[3]
- ^ Turnbull, Stephen (1977). The Samurai, A Military History. MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 97. ISBN 0026205408.
- ^ Morris, Ivan (1975). The Nobility of Failure. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. 118. ISBN 9780030108112.
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kawachi" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 496, p. 496, at Google Books.