Siege of Akasaka
34°27′34.99″N 135°37′7.00″E / 34.4597194°N 135.6186111°E
| Siege of Akasaka Castle | |||||||||
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| Part of The Genkō War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Imperial forces | Hōjō forces | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Kusunoki Masashige Kusunoki Shichiro | Hōjō Sadatadashi | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 500 | 10,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 1,000 (est.) | |||||||||
The siege of Akasaka was one of the earlier battles of the Genkō War between the figurehead Emperor Godaigo and the largely Hōjō-controlled Kamakura shogunate during the final years of the Kamakura period in Japan. The battle in question was fought at Shimo Akasaka-jō (下赤坂城, English: Lower Akasaka fortress), a fortress built upon Mount Yoshino near modern-day Osaka in the former Kawachi Province in Osaka Prefecture.