The detailed outline of "the Battle of Matsukawa" is described as "the battle between Uesugi and Date" in the volume 42 of the "Kaisei Mikawago Fudoki," the revision of "Mikawago Fudoki (The Topographical Records of Mikawa Province)" by Motonao NARUSHIMA, an inner Confucian (teacher to a shogun) of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1833 of the late Edo period.
“松川合戦”の概要は、徳川幕府の奥儒者である成島司直により、幕末期の天保4年(1833)に『三河後風土記』を改撰した『改正三河後風土記』の第42巻に、「上杉伊達合戦の事」として詳細が記述されている。