Battles of Kawanakajima
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The <entity_0> were a series of battles fought in the <entity_2> of <entity_10> between <entity_3> of Kai Province and <entity_4> of Echigo Province from <entity_6> to <entity_5>. Shingen and Kenshin contested each other for control of the plain of <entity_7> between the Sai River and Chikuma River in northern <entity_1>, located in the present-day city of <entity_9>. Five major battles of <entity_7> occurred: Fuse in <entity_6>, Saigawa in 1555, Uenohara in 1557, Hachimanbara in 1561, and Shiozaki in <entity_5>. The most famous and severe <entity_8> was fought on 18 October 1561 in the heart of the <entity_7> plain, thus being known the Battle of <entity_7>. The first <entity_8> of <entity_7>, also known as the "Battle of Fuse", was fought in <entity_6>. <entity_4> marched up the western bank to support Murakami Yoshikiyo, and the two armies encountered each other at a shrine of Hachiman (place within modern Yashiro) on <entity_6>. From August to November 1555 the second <entity_8> of <entity_7>, also known as the "Battle of Saigawa", began when <entity_3> returned to <entity_7>, advancing up to the Sai River. The third <entity_8>, also known as the "Battle of Uenohara", took place in 1557 when <entity_3> captured a fortress called Katsurayama, overlooking the Zenkō-ji temple from the northwest. He then attempted to take Iiyama castle, but withdrew after <entity_4> led an army out of Zenkō-ji Of the four, this <entity_8> took place furthest from the <entity_7> plain. The fourth <entity_8> resulted in greater casualties for both sides, as a percentage of total forces, than any other <entity_8> in the <entity_2> and is, according to Turnbull, one of the most tactically interesting battles of the period. After besieging the Hōjō Ujiyasu's Odawara castle, <entity_4> was forced to withdraw after hearing rumors about the movement of <entity_3>'s army. Shingen left Kōfu with 16,000 men, acquiring 4,000 more as he traveled through <entity_1>, approaching <entity_7> on the west bank of the Chikumagawa (Chikuma River), keeping the river between him and Saijoyama. <entity_4> himself burst into the headquarters, attacking <entity_3> who, unprepared for such an event, parried with his signalling fan as best as he could, and held Kenshin off long enough for one of his retainers, Hara Osumi-no-Kami, to spear Kenshin's mount and drive him off–272. In <entity_5>, Shingen and Kenshin met for the fifth time on the plain of <entity_7>.
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