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Battle of Uedahara
| Battle of Uedahara | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||
 Uedahara today | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Takeda clan | Murakami clan | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Takeda Shingen Itagaki Nobukata † Amari Torayasu † Hajikano Den'emon † | Murakami Yoshikiyo | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 7,000 | 3,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 700 men | 120 | ||||||
  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.
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