Battle of Ejima

…In the early days of the Northern and Southern Courts, Seki Hachirozaemon-no-jo and his men, who were on the side of the Southern Court and had set sail from Ise Province for Oshu, were shipwrecked at sea and washed up on Enoshima. The battle that became known as the Battle of Enoshima took place in April 1450 (Houtoku 2). There had been conflicts between the Kanto kubo Ashikaga Shigeuji and the Yamauchi family chief retainer Nagao Kagenaka and the Ogigayatsu family chief retainer Ota Sukekiyo, and Shigeuji based himself in Enoshima, where fierce battles took place at Koshigoe and Yuigahama, and were brought to an end with the mediation of the Muromachi Shogunate. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the Battle of Ejima is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…南北朝初期には，伊勢国から奥州を目ざして船出した南朝方の関八郎左衛門尉らが，海上で遭難し江の島に漂着した。世に江島合戦といわれる戦いが起こったのは1450年(宝徳2)4月である。以前より関東公方足利成氏（しげうじ）と上杉氏の山内家家宰長尾景仲，扇谷家家宰太田資清らとの対立があり，成氏は江の島に拠り，腰越，由比ヶ浜で激闘が行われ，室町幕府の仲介で終結した。…

※「江島合戦」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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