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  • Battle of Awazu
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  • Minamoto no Yoshinaka made his final stand at Awazu, after fleeing from his cousins' armies, which confronted him after he attacked Kyoto, burning the Hōjūjiden, and kidnapping Emperor Go-Shirakawa. During the pursuit he had joined up with his companion and milk brother Imai Kanehira at Seta; Kanehira became joint commander along with Yoshinaka.
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Partof
  • the Genpei War
Date
  • 1184-02-21
Commander
Caption
  • Tomoe Gozen defeats Uchida Ieyoshi and Hatakeyama Shigetada.
Result
  • Minamoto no Yoshitsune et al. victory; Minamoto no Yoshinaka killed
combatant
  • Minamoto clan loyalists
  • Minamoto clan rebels
Place
Conflict
  • Battle of Awazu
abstract
  • Minamoto no Yoshinaka made his final stand at Awazu, after fleeing from his cousins' armies, which confronted him after he attacked Kyoto, burning the Hōjūjiden, and kidnapping Emperor Go-Shirakawa. During the pursuit he had joined up with his companion and milk brother Imai Kanehira at Seta; Kanehira became joint commander along with Yoshinaka. During the battle, they fought valiantly, holding off Noriyori's large force of thousands of men for a time. However, in the end, they both died: Yoshinaka was struck dead by an arrow when his horse became mired in a paddy field, and after Kanehira heard that Yoshinaka had been killed, he committed suicide by leaping off his horse while holding his sword in his mouth.