Battle of Kinugasa Castle

Battle of Kinugasa Castle
	Part of Genpei War
	; Monument of the Kinugasa Castle
Date	August 26, 1180 Jishō calendar
Location	Kinugasa Castle, Sagami Province (modern day Kinugasa Yokosuka)
Result	Taira clan victory
Belligerents
Taira clan	Miura clan (pro-Minamoto)
Commanders and leaders
Hatakeyama Shigetada; Edo Shigenaga; Shigeyori Kawagoe;	Miura Yoshizumi; Yoshiaki Miura †;
Units involved
"Several thousand"/2,000;	450

The Battle of Kinugasa Castle (衣笠城合戦, Kinugasa Jō Kassen) was a battle between the Taira (and its 2 branches, the Edo and Chichibushi clans) against the pro-Minamoto Miura clan that took place on August 26, 1180 (Jishō calendar) (September 17, 1180 Julian calendar) at Kinugasa Castle in Sagami Province, which is now Kinugasa Town, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. It was one of the battles in the Genpei War, a civil war over control of the Imperial Family and Japan.