Battle of Odaihara

Battle of Odaihara
	Part of the Sengoku period
	; Takeda Shingen
Date	19 September 1547
Location	Odaihara, Saku, Shinano Province
Result	Takeda victory
Belligerents
Takeda clan	Uesugi clan
Commanders and leaders
Takeda Shingen; Itagaki Nobukata; Sanada Yukitaka	Uesugi Norimasa; Kanai Hidekage
Strength
5000	3800
Casualties and losses
Minimal	500

The 1547 Battle of Odaihara was one of a series of battles waged by Takeda Shingen in his long campaign to conquer Shinano province. In this particular encounter he was fighting the forces of Uesugi Norimasa, who was based in Echigo province but had decided to intervene in Shinano to prevent Shingen from overrunning the whole province. The Uesugi army attempted to relieve the castle of Shika, which Shingen had besieged, but were attacked and defeated at Odaihara on 19 September 1547.^[1]

^ Turnbull, Stephen (2013). Kawanakajima 1553–64: Samurai power struggle. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 29–30. ISBN 978-1-84603-652-1.

[1] Turnbull, Stephen (2013). Kawanakajima 1553–64: Samurai power struggle. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 29–30. ISBN 978-1-84603-652-1.

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