Battle of Kumegawa

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Kumegawa
partof=the Kamakura period
coordinates = coord|35|46|23.15|N|139|28|03|E


caption=Kumegawa Battlefield in 2008. Now in a suburb of Tokyo, Nitta Yoshisada had this vantage point during the battle some 675 years prior.
date=May 12, 1333
place=Kumegawa, present-day Higashimurayama
territory=
result=Victory for the Imperial Forces
combatant1=Forces loyal to the Kamakura Shogunate
combatant2=Forces loyal to the Emperor Go-Daigo
commander1=
commander2=Nitta Yoshisada
strength1=
strength2=
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The nihongo|Battle of Kumegawa|久米川の戦い|Kumegawa no tatakai was part of the decisive Kōzuke-Musashi Campaign during the Genkō War in Japan that ultimately ended the Kamakura Shogunate. Fought in present day Higashimurayama at the foot of the Hachikokuyama ridge on May 12, 1333, it pitted the anti-shogunate imperial forces led by Nitta Yoshisada against the forces of the Hojo Shogun. It was an immediate follow on from the previous day's nearby Battle of Kotesashi. The result was a victory for the imperial forces who in less than one week marched 50 kilometers south and finally defeated the Shogun's forces during the Siege of Kamakura. [McCullough, Helen Craig (1959): pp. 274-285.]

References

* McCullough, Helen Craig (1959). "The Taiheiki. A Chronicle of Medieval Japan." 1959. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Tokyo, ISBN 9789804835381.

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