The village of Imafuku stood on the northeast approach to Osaka, and so Tokugawa Ieyasu sent 1,500 men under the command of Satake Yoshinobu to secure the site for a fort.

They faced off against 600 men loyal to the Toyotomi "Western Army," under two generals named Iida and Masatomo Yano.

After Satake routed the defenders from the village and killed Iida and Yano, reinforcements from the Western Army arrived.

Kimura Shigenari and Gotō Mototsugu led a charge, incurring major casualties on the Eastern force and forcing Satake to call a withdrawal.

Satake then managed to finally get a hold on the village.