Wada Battle - Wada Battle

Japanese: 和田合戦 - わだかっせん

A battle between the Wada and Hojo clans took place in Kamakura on May 2-3, 1213. Wada Yoshimori was a meritorious vassal of the Kamakura Shogunate and held great influence as the head of the Samurai-dokoro, but after the death of the first Shogun, Minamoto no Yoritomo, he began to oppose the Hojo clan, whose influence had been growing. Relations between the two clans worsened when Yoshimori's nephew, Tanenaga, was punished for being an accomplice in a conspiracy by Izumi Chikahira that was discovered in February of the same year. Yoshimori talked to his relatives, the Miura clan, and his relatives by marriage, the Yokoyama clan, and tried to overthrow the Hojo clan by gaining many allies in Sagami and other areas. However, at the start of the war, the Miura clan broke their pact and sided with the Hojo clan, and the Hojo clan supported the third Shogun, Minamoto no Sanetomo, and gathered many vassals, so the battle was decided in two days, the Wada clan was destroyed, and the Hojo clan gained power.

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Japanese:

建暦3 (1213) 年5月2～3日に鎌倉で行われた和田氏と北条氏との間の戦闘。和田義盛は鎌倉幕府草創の功臣で侍所別当として権勢を有していたが，初代将軍源頼朝没後，勢威を高めてきた北条氏と対抗するようになった。同年2月に発覚した泉親衡の陰謀の加担者として義盛の甥胤長が処罰されたことから両者の関係が悪化した。義盛は同族三浦氏，姻族横山氏を語らい，相模その他に多数の味方を得て北条氏を打倒しようとした。しかし開戦に際して三浦氏が違約して北条氏につき，また北条氏が3代将軍源実朝を擁して多数の御家人を集めたため，勝負は2日間で決し，和田氏は滅亡し，北条氏が権勢を伸ばすこととなった。

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