First Siege of Odawara | |||||||
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Part of Sengoku period | |||||||
![]() One corner tower of Odawara Castle today | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Uesugi clan forces | Hōjō clan forces | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Uesugi Kenshin Uesugi Norimasa Satomi Yoshihiro Oda Ujiharu Utsunomiya Hirotsuna Satake Yoshiaki Oyama Hidetsuna Nasu Suketane Ōta Sukemasa Mita Tsunahide Narita Nagayasu |
Hōjō Ujiyasu Hōjō Ujimasa Hōjō Ujiteru Hōjō Tsunashige | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
90,000-113,000[1] | 15,000 | ||||||
Location within Kanagawa Prefecture |
In the 1561 siege of Odawara, a battle of Japan's Sengoku period, Uesugi Kenshin attacked Odawara castle. This was the first of several sieges which would befall Odawara castle, the home castle of the Hōjō clan.