Biographies CIV: Utsunomiya Kintsuna, Akamatsu Noriuji, Ishitō Yoshifusa, Hosokawa Kiyouji, Hōjō Tokiyuki, Momonoi Naotsune, Kusunoki Masanori, and Oyama Yoshimasa

Utsunomiya Kintsuna

¶Utsunomiya Kintsuna was at first named Takatsuna and was styled Yasaburō; he was a man of Shimotsuke. (Note: following the Utsunomiya Keizu and the Taiheiki. That he was styled Yasaburō follows the Taiheiki.) His ancestors descended from the Kampaku Michikane. A priest, Sōen, a fourth-generation descendant of Michikane, became Zasu of Utsunomiya, and his descendants took the place name as their clan name. Sōen fathered Munetsuna, who was styled Zasu Saburō and became Governor of Shimotsuke. Munetsuna fathered Tomotsuna, who was styled Yasaburō, became Saemon-no-jō, and succeeded to the post of Utsunomiya Kengyō. In the reigns of Emperor Toba and Emperor Go-Shirakawa he served in the Mushadokoro, the Warriors' Office, and was appointed to the Hokumen, the Northern Guard. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku and the Keizu.) When Minamoto-no-Yoritomo raised troops in Izu and struck Taira-no-Munemori and his allies, the whole of the eastern provinces went over to him. Because the families of Tomotsuna, Hatakeyama Shigeyoshi, and others were all in Munemori's hands, Munemori held them and would not let them return. When he was defeated and fled the capital, he meant to kill Tomotsuna and the rest, but they were spared through the words of Taira-no-Sadayoshi and were able to go home. (Note: concerning Sadayoshi, this follows the present work and the variant text of the Heike Monogatari. ○ The Heike Monogatari gives Taira-no-Tomomori instead.) Yoritomo granted Tomotsuna the post of jitō, land steward, of Mibuno-gō in Iga. In the Bunji era (1185-1190) Tomotsuna, together with his grandson Narizuna, followed Yoritomo in attacking Fujiwara-no-Yasuhira in Mutsu and distinguished himself. (Note: following the Azuma Kagami.) Soon afterwards he shaved his head and took the name Obane Nyūdō. (Note: following the Keizu.) In the Kenkyū era (1190-1199), because he had plundered the public lands of Shimotsuke, he was impeached by the provincial governor Yukifusa (Note: the surname is missing), and by decision of the court Tomotsuna was sentenced to distant exile, a penalty that extended to his grandsons Yoritsuna and Tomonari, at which Yoritomo grieved deeply. (Note: following the Azuma Kagami.) Tomotsuna fathered Narizuna, who became Saemon-no-jō. Narizuna fathered Yoritsuna, Narizuna, Nagatsuna, and Tomonari. Yoritsuna too was styled Yasaburō, and his descendants after him were styled so in every generation. Yoritsuna became Governor of Shimotsuke and Utsunomiya Kengyō, and excelled at waka poetry. (Note: following the Keizu.) In the second year of Genkyū (1205) a rumor spread in Kamakura that Yoritsuna was plotting rebellion. Hōjō Yoshitoki prepared to send troops against him. Yoritsuna, in fear, cut off his hair and went to Kamakura; he presented his severed topknot to Yūki Tomomitsu and was forgiven on that account. (Note: following the Azuma Kagami.) Yoritsuna fathered Yasutsuna, who became Kamonsuke and succeeded as Utsunomiya Kengyō. Yasutsuna fathered Kagetsuna, who became Governor of Shimotsuke. Kagetsuna fathered Sadatsuna, who became Governor of Shimotsuke and Utsunomiya Kengyō. In the Kōan era (1278-1288), when the Mongols invaded the western frontier, Hōjō Tokimune ordered Sadatsuna to lead troops to defend against them. By the time he arrived the invasion had already been put down, so he repaired the defenses of the frontier and returned.

¶Sadatsuna fathered Kintsuna. Kintsuna successively held the posts of Bizen-no-gon-no-kami and Hyōbu-no-shōyū, and was then appointed Jibu-no-taifu; he was known for his valor. In the second year of Genkō (1332), because there were few troops in the capital, Hōjō Takatoki sent Kintsuna to reinforce the defense of Rokuhara. Just then Kusunoki Masashige had brought out troops at Shitennōji and was seeking to retake Kyoto. Hōjō Nakatoki and Hōjō Tokimasu ordered Sumida Michiharu and Takahashi Munoyasu to lead five thousand soldiers and fight at Watanabe, but they were utterly routed. Nakatoki said to Kintsuna: "Victory and defeat are the common lot of soldiers. Yet the defeat at Watanabe came truly from poor planning and timid troops, and has made us a laughingstock. Even if we sent those men out again, how could they accomplish anything? I had hoped that I, Nakatoki, would keep the capital quiet and trouble you only afterwards, holding you in reserve for an emergency. Today is the very point on which the fate of the state turns, and without you nothing can be done." Kintsuna replied: "Both generals have already been broken. To meet a great host now with a small force, I do not think it will go well. But since I came west on orders, I mean to prove my worth by fighting to the death. How can I stop to calculate whether the matter will succeed or fail?" He then rose and rode straight out, with only a little over ten horsemen. By the time he had passed Tōji, the men who had caught up with him numbered seven hundred, and whenever he met a mounted man he took the horse and galloped on. The next day he reached Shitennōji and advanced, setting fire to the houses of the common people nearby. Kusunoki Masashige avoided his sharp onset and broke camp in the night and left. Kintsuna spurred his horse to Rokuhara to report the victory. Nakatoki was greatly pleased. Because Kintsuna's troops were few and it was hard to advance and fight, and because he was ashamed to return without having seen the enemy, he kept his camp within the temple grounds. Before long Masashige, at night, strung torches along the mountains on every side and drew gradually closer, and Kintsuna drew up his troops in strict order and waited for him. This went on for many nights, but the enemy never came, so the soldiers drew a little breath and each began to think of withdrawing. Someone remonstrated with Kintsuna: "To oppose a great army with a small force was never a good plan. The enemy has fortunately withdrawn for our sake, and that is excuse enough. We beg you to pull back the whole army." Kintsuna followed this advice and turned back. The following year Hōjō Takatoki sent Daibutsu Takanao to lead troops against Kusunoki Masashige at Chihaya, but for a long time they had no effect. Kintsuna again came under the command of Hōjō Nakatoki and, leading over a thousand horsemen of his own, attacked for more than ten days, pressing against the palisades and closing on the castle. Moreover, he made the soldiers in front fight and those behind dig into the mountain, and in three days they brought down the towers and turrets. The rest of the army followed his example and dug and undermined day and night without rest. Before long the imperial army retook Kyoto, and Hōjō Nakatoki and Hōjō Tokimasu were put to death. Kintsuna fled to Nara together with Daibutsu Takanao and the others. Kusunoki Masashige and Minamoto-no-Sadahira, Sakonoe-no-chūjō, came against them with troops. Kintsuna held Hannyaji and defended it. They faced each other for several days, but then a letter bestowed by the court called on him to submit, and Kintsuna led seven hundred men and surrendered. When Ashikaga Takauji raised a rebellion in Kamakura, Kintsuna followed Nitta Yoshisada and defeated the rebels at Sagisaka. Then, with Chiba Sadatane, he followed Wakiya Yoshisuke and fought at Tegoshigawara with distinction, and the rebels fled in the night. His own kinsmen came from Utsunomiya just then and joined him, and when Yoshisada advanced and fought at Hakone, Kintsuna again won merit. Afterwards he followed Yoshisada and defended against Takauji at Ōwatari. The army was defeated, and with Ōtomo Yasuuji he surrendered to Takauji. Earlier, Kintsuna had urged the men he had left behind at Utsunomiya to set out, and just then the Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Headquarters, Minamoto-no-Akiie, came with troops as reinforcement. Five hundred of Kintsuna's men followed him west. Arriving at Shinahama, they heard that Kintsuna had gone over to Takauji and went to Kyoto by another road. Kintsuna took them in and made his stand at Kaguraoka. The imperial army attacked with sharp momentum; Kintsuna sought reinforcements but they did not arrive in time, and he was broken and in the end fled west together with Takauji. On the way he again went over to the imperial army and pursued Takauji and defeated him at Toshimagawara. When Nitta Yoshisada set out on his western campaign, a great army went first, and Kintsuna caught up with it at the Kakogawa and followed it onward; he attacked Akamatsu Norimura at Shirahata Castle, and together with Wakiya Yoshisuke and Ōida Ujitsune broke through Funasakayama, and tried to repel Takauji at Minatogawa, but the army was defeated and returned to Kyoto, where he guarded Enryakuji and held the Higashi-sakamoto approach, and together with Yoshisada struck and drove back Kō-no-Moroshige on Mount Hiei. A monk of the mountain, Imaki Ryūken, led enemy troops in, and Kintsuna's men met them at the foot of the mountain, seized Ryūken, and killed all the rest. Afterwards he attacked Takauji in Kyoto with the other commanders, but though they fought repeatedly they gained no advantage. When Takauji falsely sent proposals for peace, Kintsuna escorted the emperor's carriage to Kyoto but was confined by Takauji. He shaved his head, changed his clothing, and fled back to Utsunomiya. In the Engen era (1336-1340), when the emperor went to Yoshino and Nitta Yoshisada raised troops in Echizen, the imperial army recovered its strength. Kintsuna then led five hundred soldiers to the temporary palace. The emperor comforted him and ordered by edict that he let his hair grow again. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) He was given the post of Sakonoe-no-shōshō, was raised to Senior Fourth Rank, (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Keizu.) and was granted permission to enter the emperor's presence. (Note: following the Keizu.) When Minamoto-no-Akiie defeated Ashikaga Yoshiakira at the Tonegawa and encamped at Fuchū in Musashi, Kintsuna led over a thousand men to join him; together they broke into Kamakura, and then he followed Akiie west and fought Uesugi Noriaki at Aonogahara, winning a great victory over him. When Akiie's army was defeated, Kintsuna returned to Utsunomiya, shaved his head again, (Note: following the Taiheiki.) changed his name to Riren, and took the sobriquet Shōgen-an. (Note: following the Keizu.) In the seventh year of Shōhei (1352), the emperor sent Kojima Takanori to the Kantō to urge the sons and younger kinsmen of Nitta Yoshisada to retake Kyoto. Kintsuna responded and promised to raise troops and pacify the eastern provinces. Hearing that the imperial army had been defeated at Otokoyama, he did not carry this out. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) In the eleventh year (1356) he died, at the age of fifty-five. (Note: following the Keizu.) Kintsuna's family had guarded Shimotsuke for generations, and had the Ki and Kiyohara clans as their bukyoku (Note: private troops and retainers). Both clans were numerous and flourishing, and at every campaign they were unfailingly his wings. For that reason his soldiers were strong, among the foremost of the age, and were called the Ki-Sei Ryōtō, the Two Bands of Ki and Kiyohara. (Note: following the Taiheiki.)

¶Kintsuna had two sons, named Ujitsuna and Yoshitsuna. Ujitsuna's childhood name was Kagajumaru; he was granted Junior Fifth Rank Lower and became Governor of Shimotsuke and of Iyo. (Note: following the Keizu.) At the beginning of the Engen era (1336), Kintsuna followed Minamoto-no-Akiie and attacked Ashikaga Yoshiakira at Kamakura. At that time Ujitsuna was still a child, and Hage Zenka of the Ki band took him up and rebelled, holding Utsunomiya. Akiie sent troops and assaulted it relentlessly for three days, and Zenka, his strength spent, surrendered. Before long Ujitsuna again attached himself to Yoshiakira. When Akiie marched to Kyoto, Zenka led a thousand horsemen of the Kiyohara band, fought at Aonogahara, and was defeated. Ashikaga Takauji faced Tadayoshi at Satta-yama. Ujitsuna, using the counsel of Yakushiji Genka, sent out fifteen hundred soldiers to aid Takauji, with Mito Morochika, a kinsman of Kō-no-Moronao, as commander. Just then Morochika suddenly killed himself, and many of the soldiers fled, and those who remained were greatly alarmed. Genka said: "This means that the god of our Utsunomiya will not let anyone else lead the troops." The men thereupon raised Ujitsuna as their general. Tadayoshi sent Momonoi Naotsune with seven thousand soldiers to meet them at the Tonegawa. Ujitsuna fought hard and defeated him, and the morale of the troops rose greatly. By the time they reached Satta-yama, Tadayoshi had fled in defeat. Later Ashikaga Motouji, over some matter, stripped Hage Zenka of the post of Shugo of Echigo and gave it to Uesugi Noriaki. Zenka was filled with anger and resentment, fought Noriaki and was defeated, and always thought of revenge. Watching for Motouji to go to Kamakura, he plotted to ambush him on the road. Motouji heard of this and, enraged, led troops himself to attack him. Zenka sent his son Iga-no-kami Takasada (Note: ○ I observe that the variant text of the Taiheiki writes Sadanawa or Sadatsuna. The present work in one place writes Kimiyori. The Hage genealogy records that Kimiyori later changed his name to Takasada, and that is followed here.) and Suruga-no-kami Takaie (Note: ○ Takaie follows the Tenshō text of the Taiheiki.) to meet him at Kurubayashino in Musashi, but they were crushed. Zenka fled, and Motouji, thinking that Ujitsuna had a hand in the plot, advanced his troops and attacked him. Ujitsuna hurried to Motouji's army as far as Oyama and pleaded that he had no divided loyalty. Motouji's suspicions were dispelled and he withdrew his troops. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) In the first year of Kentoku (1370) he died. His son Mototsuna became Governor of Shimotsuke. (Note: following the Keizu.) In the sixth year of Tenju (1380) he fought Oyama Yoshimasa and was killed in battle. (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki, the Kamakura Ōzōshi, and the Keizu.) He was thirty-one years old. A cousin's son of Kintsuna was Yasufuji. (Note: following the Keizu.)

Utsunomiya Yasufuji

¶Utsunomiya Yasufuji was styled Mino Shōgen. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) His grandfather Yasumune lived in Mumo-gō in Shimotsuke and for that reason took the name Mumo. (Note: following the Keizu.) With Yasufuji the family again called itself Utsunomiya. (Note: following the Kenmu Ninen-ki.) He successively held the posts of Uhyōe-no-jō (Note: following the Keizu), Umanogon-no-kami (Note: following the Kenmu Ninen-ki), and Sakonoe-no-shōgen (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku), and served in attendance in the Mushadokoro. (Note: following the Kenmu Ninen-ki.) In the early Kenmu years, Ashikaga Takauji raised a rebellion in Kamakura, defeated the imperial army at Hakone, and swept on to attack Kyoto. Yasufuji followed Wakiya Yoshisuke and held off the enemy at Yamazaki without success; he then followed the emperor's carriage together with the other commanders and shut himself up on Enryakuji. When Takauji sued for peace and the carriage returned to the capital, Yasufuji followed Nitta Yoshisada, escorted the Crown Prince, and fled north to Echizen; together with Wakiya Yoshisuke and the others he sought refuge at Somayama Castle, held by Uryū Tamotsu. But Tamotsu had attached himself to Ashikaga Takatsune and closed the castle and would not admit them, so they fled to Kanegasaki Castle. Takatsune, together with Kō-no-Moroyasu, led Tamotsu and the troops of the Hokuriku provinces and attacked Kanegasaki Castle. Before long Tamotsu heard that his younger brother Yoshiakira was plotting to come to Yoshisada's aid, and secretly planned to slip back. At that time Yasufuji too had submitted and was under Moroyasu's command. One day, as he sat in the camp with Amano Masasada, they discussed which was better, the banners of the Hōjō, the Nitta, or the Ashikaga. Yasufuji thought the Nitta the best, and Masasada agreed with him. Tamotsu overheard this in secret, and therefore allied himself closely with the two and, by a secret plan, escaped with them back to Somayama Castle. Moroyasu sent troops to attack, but Yasufuji struck them at the post station of Yunoo and put them to flight. Afterwards, with Tamotsu and his brother, he went to relieve Kanegasaki Castle and fought at the harbor of Tsuruga, but on the contrary was defeated. Tamotsu and Yoshiakira died in that battle. When Wakiya Yoshisuke fought Takatsune at Sabae, Yasufuji, together with Masasada and the others, struck and broke him. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) Yasufuji cut his hair, took the name Renjō, and ended his life in Mikawa. (Note: following the Keizu.) His descendants changed the clan name again to Utsu, and later took Ōkubo as their clan name. (Note: following the Ōkubo Keizu. ○ The Keizu says that Mochitsuna, a son of Mumo Tsunaie, succeeded to the main line, who was probably a descendant of Yasufuji, but at present there is no material for verification.)

Akamatsu Noriuji

¶Akamatsu Noriuji (Note: ○ Nori is sometimes written with the character for Nori of Norimura.) was a son of Norimura. By temperament he was valiant and of great strength, and he became Danjō-no-shōhitsu. (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Akamatsu Keizu.) After his father died he fell out with his elder brothers and so submitted to the other side. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) He was granted Nakajima in Settsu, Arima, and Maō-gō in Bizen as his fief. (Note: following the Akamatsu Ryakufu and the Akamatsu Keizu.) In the eighth year of Shōhei (1353) he followed the Chūnagon Fujiwara-no-Takatoshi and attacked Ashikaga Yoshiakira in Kyoto. Yoshiakira's army fled in defeat, and Noriuji led his own troops in pursuit as far as Kita-Shirakawa. An enemy, Nagayama Yorimoto, relying on his courage, slackened his reins and was withdrawing slowly. Noriuji spurred his horse and caught up with him; Yorimoto wheeled his horse around, raised a great axe, and struck at Noriuji. Noriuji dodged and drew back a little, seized the haft, twisted it until it broke, and took it from him. Yorimoto, in fear, fled. Noriuji, axe in hand, pursued the fugitives and killed a great many. In the tenth year (1355), together with Yamana Tokiuji, he followed Ashikaga Tadafuyu and again attacked Ashikaga Yoshiakira at Kanan. When Ashikaga Takauji pressed in on Tōji, Noriuji sallied out together with Momonoi Naotsune but gained no advantage and withdrew, and the enemy followed and pressed the attack. Noriuji's retainer Komaki Gorozaemon was wounded and could no longer walk. Noriuji tried to help him and carry him off. Tadafuyu gave orders to him to hold off the enemy, so Noriuji threw Komaki inside the gate, fought hard to drive the enemy back, and cut down men beyond counting. (Note: ○ I observe that the Hōjō-ke text and the Nanto text of the Taiheiki say that Noriuji fought Osato Hyōsuke and Hiyoshi Hachirō and entered the castle wounded.) In the fifteenth year (1360), Hatakeyama Kunikiyo invaded the temporary palace. Noriuji led the troops of the eighteen villages of Yoshino and followed the Seii Shōgun Imperial Prince Rikuryō in defending against him. Before long Rikuryō turned away, and the emperor sent the former Kampaku Moromoto to attack him; but the troops of the eighteen villages scattered and fled without fighting, and scarcely any soldiers remained. Noriuji said: "To see danger and run is unrighteous." Leading twenty-five horsemen, he fought Moromoto for a day and a night. (Note: ○ The current text of the Taiheiki says three days and nights, but here the Saigen-in text is followed.) He received several wounds, his strength gave out, and he surrendered and returned to Harima. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) In the twenty-fourth year (1369) he raised troops at Nakajima. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu sent Noriuji's elder brothers Norisuke and Mitsunori, who struck and broke him, and Noriuji fled to Tennōji. (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki.) In the third year of Genchū (1386), he fought and was defeated at Shimizu in Harima, and he and his sons Ujiharu, Ienori, Sukeharu, and Hidenori, along with over a hundred soldiers who followed him, all killed themselves. He was fifty-seven years old. His retainers Itō Minbu and Imamura Gorō helped his young son Otowakamaru escape to Satsuma. (Note: following the Akamatsu Keizu.)

Ishitō Yoshifusa

¶Ishitō Yoshifusa was styled Shōyū Shirō and was the ancestor of a branch of Ashikaga Takauji's kin. His father Yorishige was the first to take the name Ishitō. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku. ○ I observe that the Taiheiki sometimes writes tō as dō, which is probably an error.) From the time Takauji raised troops, Yoshifusa followed his army together with his sons Yoritsugu and Yoshimoto; (Note: following the Taiheiki.) he cut his hair and took the name Hidemori, went out as garrison commander of Mutsu, and repeatedly traveled to and fro in that land. (Note: compare the Yūki Monjo, the Satake Monjo, and the Aso-sha Monjo.) In the first year of Kōkoku (1340), when the Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Headquarters, Minamoto-no-Akinobu, arrived in Mutsu, Yoshifusa sent out troops and blocked him. Akinobu could not enter the headquarters and drew back his camp partway. (Note: following the Yūki Monjo.) In the third year (1342) Akinobu, leading Yūki Chikatomo and his sons and nephews, came to attack. Yoshifusa's army was defeated and abandoned its camp and fled. (Note: following the Aso-sha Monjo and the Yūki Monjo.) Before long he again gathered the local men and faced Akinobu. He drew Chikatomo and the Date clan to him and brought about their surrender, and thereby the whole Kantō submitted. (Note: following the Yūki Monjo.) Soon Takauji had Kira Sadaie pacify Mutsu in Yoshifusa's place, (Note: following the Yūki Monjo and the Sōma Kaden.) and Yoshifusa was relieved of his post and returned. In the fifth year of Shōhei (1350), Ashikaga Tadayoshi submitted and before long rebelled again; he made peace with Takauji and then took up arms again and they attacked each other. Yoshifusa followed Tadayoshi throughout. When Takauji came to Satta-yama, Tadayoshi had Yoshifusa and Uesugi Noriaki encircle him. Takauji's soldiers were weary and short of provisions, but Yoshifusa and the others despised them and did not press the attack. Before long Tadayoshi's army was defeated, and Yoshifusa returned to Takauji together with Tadayoshi. He was not treated with courtesy by Takauji's officers, and Yoshifusa felt shame and regret. Just then Tadayoshi died, and having lost the one he depended on, his unease grew, and in the end he planned to change sides. When Nitta Yoshioki raised troops in Kōzuke and came to attack Takauji, Yoshifusa secretly answered him together with Miura Takamichi, Nikaidō Masamoto, and others, and promised to cut down Takauji on the field and surrender. Yoshifusa told this plan to his son Yorifusa. Yorifusa did not go along with it and reported the plot to Takauji. Yoshifusa, in fear, fled that same night with Takamichi and the others at the head of over three thousand troops, joined Yoshioki at Sekido, and together they seized Kamakura. Before long Yoshioki was defeated and fled to Kawamura Castle, Yoshifusa went into hiding in Suruga, and Ashikaga Yoshiakira pressed the emperor's carriage at Otokoyama. Yoshifusa, together with Kira Mitsusada, went to the aid of the army on imperial order, (Note: following the Taiheiki.) but nothing is known of his later fortunes. His three sons were named Yorifusa, Yoshimoto, and Norie. (Note: following the printed Sonpi Bunmyaku.) Yorifusa has a separate biography.

Hosokawa Kiyouji

¶Hosokawa Kiyouji was at first named Motouji and was styled Yahachi; he was a son of Kazuuji. He successively held the posts of Sakonoe-no-shōgen, Governor of Awa, and Governor of Iyo, became Governor of Sagami, and rose to Junior Fourth Rank Lower. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku.) By temperament he was valiant and strong. In the third year of Shōhei (1348) he followed Kō-no-Moronao and fought Kusunoki Masatsura at Shijōnawate. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) In the sixth year (1351) he followed Ashikaga Takauji and attacked Momonoi Naotsune in Kyoto, and also attacked Ashikaga Tadayoshi at Hassōzan, winning merit in both. In the seventh year (1352), together with Hosokawa Akiuji, he besieged the imperial army at Otokoyama. The next year (1353), when Yamana Tokiuji led the imperial army against Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Yoshiakira made his stand at Kaguraoka to fight, but all the armies were defeated and only Kiyouji held Mount Hiei firmly. Afterwards he followed Yoshiakira and escorted the Retired Emperor Go-Kōgon in flight to the east. (Note: following the Entairyaku and the Taiheiki.) On the way, as they rested at Shiotsu, the villagers beat drums on all sides and raised an uproar, and the soldiers abandoned Go-Kōgon's palanquin and scattered; Kiyouji himself helped Go-Kōgon and fled to Mino. In the tenth year (1355) he followed Takauji and attacked Ashikaga Tadafuyu in Kyoto, and there was fierce fighting at Shijō-Ōmiya. A mounted enemy warrior, falsely giving his name as Momonoi Naotsune, challenged Kiyouji. Kiyouji advanced straight on him, seized his head, grappled with him on the saddle and cut him down, and drove Tadafuyu off. In the fourteenth year (1359) he became Yoshiakira's shitsuji, chief steward, and followed him in the attack on Kongōsan. Kiyouji, with Toki Naouji and Akamatsu Norizane, separately besieged Ryūsenji Castle, but for several months could not take it. One day Naouji broke camp at dawn and advanced; Kiyouji heard of it, hurried up, and pressed straight against the castle gate, but the standard-bearers were blocked by the steep ground and could not advance. Kiyouji himself took the banner and went at the head, and Naouji's men saw this and vied with one another to press in. The castle fell. At this time Sasaki Takauji repeatedly framed wicked arguments in an attempt to oust him from the post of shitsuji, and also quarreled with Kiyouji on every occasion. In the sixteenth year (1361), by Yoshiakira's arrangement, a poetry contest of seven hundred rounds was to be held at Kiyouji's residence on the Tanabata festival. Takauji heard of this and vied in adorning his own residence and lavishly laid out tea and sweets, hoping to invite Yoshiakira to his house, and as a result the two men grew ever more suspicious of one another and estranged. Just then Kiyouji had his two sons undergo their coming-of-age ceremony at the Hachiman shrine, and both had the character "Hachiman" attached to their names. Yoshiakira said: "To trespass on the name of one's ancestors, his heart is hard to fathom." Takauji used this to bring him down, fabricated a case of cursing, and took it as proof. Yoshiakira grew more and more angry and plotted with Takauji to put Kiyouji to death. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) When Kiyouji, wishing to perform a Buddhist service, went to Tenryūji at night, (Note: following the Tōji Chōja Bunin and the Taiheiki.) the men who followed him were far more numerous than usual. Yoshiakira heard of it and was greatly alarmed; thinking the plot had leaked, he fled in confusion to Shin-Kumano. Kiyouji, startled, turned back and sent his younger brother, the priest Shiyo, to speak to Yoshiakira: "Tonight rumors in the streets have been in confusion, and at first I did not understand the reason. Hearing of the disturbance I hurried back, and never imagined that I myself was the cause of the affair. Toward the shogun I have not rebelled in the slightest. If, misled by slander, I were to be harmed on a false charge, not only would the enemy states laugh, but it would in the end become the beginning of rebellion. I humbly beg that the matter be handed to the proper officials to examine the truth of it thoroughly and that I be clearly judged and punished. I would gladly submit to execution at the gate of your camp." Yoshiakira did not answer. Kiyouji, thinking to wait for Yoshiakira's army to come against him and then kill himself, with his younger brothers Yorikazu and Masauji and his cousin Ujiharu, had the soldiers prepare in good order, and the men who gathered numbered seven hundred. Two days passed, and Yoshiakira could not bring out troops. Kiyouji said: "To gather troops at the foot of the capital risks causing an uproar. It is better to withdraw and offer my apologies." He therefore went to Wakasa, which was his own domain. His kinsmen caught up with him on the way and urged him: "The troops in Kyoto are few. You are leading this many men; why flee in such haste?" Kiyouji halted his horse and admonished them: "Do you think I am fleeing from cowardice? If you let me fight, a rabble of weak soldiers is nothing to fear. But when I think of the duty between lord and vassal, it must not be lacking even at the cost of my death, and so I mean only to withdraw and for once make clear my false accusation. I would not regret going to my death this instant, but I fear that slanderers are running wild and that the day when the shogun loses the country is near." So saying, he wept in deep emotion, and all the soldiers who followed him wet their collars. Kiyouji then refused Ujiharu and Masauji, saying: "I have taken a charge upon myself and am fleeing and hiding, and my brothers follow me. For this deep friendship I am overwhelmed with gratitude. But my brothers have not offended the shogun, and if they follow me today, even in death they will incur guilt. I ask to part from you here. Serve the shogun, plead against my false charge, and preserve the ancestral rites of our forefathers. That is what makes a plan that serves both ends." The two firmly begged to follow, but Kiyouji earnestly urged them: "If I stay with my brothers now, the slanderer will take that as a pretext and make the shogun believe that I truly plot rebellion." The two had no choice but to return to the capital, and Kiyouji went to Obama Castle and held it. Kiyouji had never had any intent to rebel; only because he had been slandered by Takauji did he withdraw for the time being, hoping that Yoshiakira would come to understand. Yoshiakira in the end did not perceive this and sent Shiba Ujiyori and Nikki Yoshizumi to attack him. Kiyouji scoffed: "You boys! I need not even use troops to defend against you. Two or three plain wooden staves will do." When Ujiyori's vanguard reached Tsuruga, Kiyouji sent several soldiers to set fires and shout and raise an uproar. The enemy soldiers thought Kiyouji had come and fled without fighting. When Ujiyori arrived after them, Kiyouji said: "If I go out, not one will return alive." He left Kantō Yasutsune to hold the castle and went out himself to meet them. But Yasutsune suddenly turned traitor and let the enemy in from behind the castle, so Kiyouji's followers scattered in alarm, and with Yorikazu he fled to Settsu with fifty remaining horsemen (Note: the number of remaining soldiers follows the Kōgu Maiki) and relied on Ishitō Yorifusa and submitted to the southern court. At this time Nikki Yorinatsu fled to Ise, Ujiharu fled to Awaji, and a certain Matsuyama raised troops in Settsu, each gathering troops and answering Kiyouji. Hatakeyama Kunikiyo held Izu, and his younger brother Yoshifuka toured Shinano, and both lent voice and support to the imperial army. Kiyouji then memorialized the throne: "Since this fugitive subject apologized to the court, the soldiers of the four quarters who wish to answer the righteous cause grow more numerous each day. Yet Kyoto is by nature lacking in elite troops, and Yamana and Nikki face it from outside. At this moment, if I myself act as vanguard and, together with Wada, Kusunoki and the others, strike at its weak point, one battle will destroy them. Then we shall respectfully sweep clean the palace and welcome the imperial carriage. That will come within this year." The emperor granted this. Kusunoki Masanori strongly remonstrated that this was not permissible, but the emperor's longing for restoration was intense and he did not listen; he made the Chūnagon Fujiwara-no-Takatoshi commander, with Kiyouji, Ishitō Yorifusa, and Kusunoki Masanori under him. When the army reached Shitennōji, Ujiharu joined them leading a fleet of eighty ships. Ashikaga Yoshiakira made camp at Tōji and sent Sasaki Takahide, Imagawa Sadayo, and others separately to meet them. Opinion among the men was unsettled. Kiyouji said: "Their true condition is something I have long known well. Takahide and Sadayo are timid and easy to deal with, and they will certainly not resist us without loosing a single arrow. If we fight within the city and I drive straight against the center army, how can Yoshiakira come through unharmed? The success or failure of the whole realm hangs on this one stroke." The commanders followed him. As he had said, Takahide did not sally out, Sadayo saw how things stood and fled first, and no one else dared come out to defend. Yoshiakira escorted Go-Kōgon in flight to Ōmi, the imperial army entered Kyoto, and they set fire to Yoshiakira's residence and burned it. In the court's original deliberations it had been thought that Kiyouji, having long been Yoshiakira's shitsuji and held military authority exclusively, whose name for prowess had long been respected, would, if given the post of commander, surely draw soldiers to him and win an especially great success. But when it came to this, though he had taken Kyoto without bloodying a soldier and put Go-Kōgon to flight, no one came to join him. The loyalist armies of the four quarters were also blocked on their roads and could not advance in time. The situation of the army became precarious and fearful, and before anything could be done Ashikaga Yoshiakira led a great army and pressed in by water and land. The imperial army, its strength isolated and its reinforcements exhausted, all withdrew. Kiyouji fled to Kawachi. In the spring of the next year he fled to Sanuki and held Shiramine Castle, planning to rise again and retake Kyoto. Ujiharu, his younger brother Nobuuji, and Ogasawara Kunai-no-taifu led troops to answer him. Ashikaga Yoshiakira sent Hosokawa Yoriyuki to attack him. Yoriyuki was Kiyouji's cousin. Through Kiyouji's mother he falsely invited and exhorted Kiyouji, and communications went back and forth many times. When Yoriyuki had completed all the preparations of the castle's defense, he ceased communicating. Before long Akaura Nobutane came from Bizen to help Kiyouji, and Ogasawara Mino-no-kami sent out troops to cut off Yoriyuki's way home. By this the army regained strength, and Yoriyuki sent his retainer Shinkai Sanetsura to attack Nishi-Nagao Castle, which the Nakain Shōshō was holding. Kiyouji sent Yorikazu and Ujiharu to help. Sanetsura advanced quietly at night, went by a byroad around to the foot of Shiramine, and came out directly below the castle. Yoriyuki, leading five hundred horse, reached the rear of the castle at dawn. Kiyouji, relying on his courage and despising the enemy, charged out with a light cavalry and himself cut down several tens. The enemy army wavered, and Kiyouji swung his sword and pursued. An enemy foot soldier leapt into a ditch and secretly stabbed his horse, so Kiyouji sought to seize an enemy horse, pretended to be wounded, dismounted, and stood leaning on his sword. An enemy soldier, Makabe Rokurō, galloped up, and Kiyouji, rousing himself, dragged Rokurō down and tried to leap onto his horse. Iga Takamitsu came up behind and grappled with Kiyouji. Kiyouji threw Rokurō aside and gripped Takamitsu at the side, and was just groping for the sword at his waist to cut him down when Takamitsu, watching for an opening, stabbed Kiyouji three times, and at last he was killed. Yoriyuki's troops took turns entering Shiramine Castle, and Sanetsura gathered his men and turned back. Yorikazu and the others, hearing that the enemy had withdrawn, said: "This is a lure to make us divide our troops." They therefore spurred their horses back to rescue Kiyouji. On the way they fought Sanetsura and defeated him heavily. Advancing to Shiramine, they first learned that Kiyouji had fallen in battle and the castle had fallen, and so they fled to Awaji. At that time the castle walls were strong and the soldiers were vigorous, but because Kiyouji was rash and lacked planning he died in defeat, and from then on all of Shikoku fell into the hands of the enemy. The voice and support of the imperial army shrank day by day, and people of the time regretted it. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) His son Masauji was styled Hachirō Tarō and became Governor of Awa. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku.)

Hōjō Tokiyuki

¶Hōjō Tokiyuki was the second son of Takatoki. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) His childhood name was Katsuchōjumaru, (Note: following the Hōreki Kanki. ○ The Taiheiki sometimes writes it Tōju, Chōju, or Zenka, and it is not known which is correct.) and he was styled Sagami Jirō. When Takatoki was attacked by Nitta Yoshisada and fled to Kasaigayatsu, Tokiyuki was still in swaddling clothes and was with his mother in a separate residence. His retainer Suwa Moritaka secretly planned to hide him, but fearing that the women of the household would learn the scheme and that matters would later leak, he went and told a falsehood: "My lord wishes to take leave of the young master once, in this life. Hand him over at once. I hear that the eldest son has already been killed by the rebels, and I too shall probably not escape on this errand." The nurses held the child and wept, but Moritaka feigned anger, snatched him away and left, and went to Shinano and hid him in the house of Suwa Yorishige, the shrine priest of Suwa. In the second year of Kenmu (1335), Fujiwara-no-Kinmune plotted a rebellion in Kyoto and secretly ordered Tokiyuki to raise troops to answer him. Before long the affair was discovered and Kinmune was put to death. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) Tokiyuki thereupon, together with Suwa Yorishige and others, gathered the remnants, and in about ten days obtained over fifty thousand men; he advanced to Kamakura, winning victory in every battle. Arriving at Idezawa, he fought Ashikaga Tadayoshi and put him to flight. He then entered Kamakura, and the morale of his army was greatly raised. (Note: following the Taiheiki. ○ Compare the Genkō Nikki Uragaki, the Baishōron, and the Hōreki Kanki.) The court sent Ashikaga Takauji to attack him. Tokiyuki had Nagoe Tokimoto and others lead thirty thousand troops to meet him, but a great wind rose just then, many of the common houses in Kamakura collapsed, and the soldiers took shelter in the Daibutsu hall. Suddenly the beams of the Buddha hall broke in the wind and collapsed, and as many as five hundred were crushed to death, and everyone realized that the army's advance would not go well. Tokimoto chose another day and hurried forward, but at Hashimoto he met the imperial army and was struck by it, and just then much of his rear army collapsed of itself; he withdrew and fought at Sayo, Nakayama, Hakone, and other places, but was defeated in each, and set up camp with the Sagamigawa as his defensive wall. At this time the river was swollen and swift, and Tokimoto, thinking that the enemy could not easily cross, rested his soldiers and horses and gathered up the scattered troops. But the imperial army secretly crossed the river during the night and attacked from front and rear. Tokimoto was thrown into confusion and fled back to Kamakura with only a little over three hundred men. Yorishige thereupon let Tokiyuki escape first, and killed himself with some forty remaining men, all of them stripping the skin from their faces so that they could not be identified. The imperial army entered Kamakura, inspected the corpses, and believed that Tokiyuki too had died. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) Tokiyuki was still young, and his commanders, the sons and younger kinsmen of the Daibutsu, Nagoe, and other houses, had also earlier been hiding in secret disguised as monks and were unaccustomed to military affairs, so within only about twenty days of raising troops he was defeated. People of the time called this the "Hatsuka Sendai," the Twenty-Day Former Regent, or the "Naka Sendai," the Middle Former Regent. (Note: following the Baishōron.) After this Tokiyuki wandered from place to place with no settled home. In the second year of Engen (1337) he heard that the emperor, pressed by Ashikaga Takauji, had gone secretly to Yoshino. Loyalist troops rose in every quarter, and Tokiyuki sent a messenger to the temporary palace to apologize for his crimes and petitioned to strike Takauji and his brother and thereby render service himself. The emperor granted this. Just then the Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Headquarters, Minamoto-no-Akiie, led the troops of Mutsu west, and Tokiyuki set out from Izu with five thousand soldiers, followed him, struck Ashikaga Yoshiakira at Kamakura and put him to flight, and went on as far as Mino. Yoshiakira's commanders, Uesugi Noriaki, Momonoi Naotsune, and others, pursued Akiie's army from behind, and a great battle was fought at Aonogahara and Sunomata. Tokiyuki won merit there, then followed Akiie fighting from place to place until he reached Izumi, (Note: following the Taiheiki.) and fought Kō-no-Moronao at Sakaiura. Akiie fell there and the army broke and scattered. (Note: compare the Genkō Nikki and the Taiheiki and the Hōreki Kanki.) Tokiyuki went to the temporary palace, (Note: following the Taiheiki.) and was granted the post of Sama-no-gon-no-kami. In the third year (1338), when Imperial Prince Noriyoshi set out to garrison Mutsu, Tokiyuki followed Imperial Prince Munenaga by sea and, going ahead, reached Tōtōmi, where he fought and defeated the troops of Imagawa Noriuji at the post station of Hikuma. Prince Noriyoshi's ship met a storm and could not arrive, and Tokiyuki, together with Prince Munenaga, took refuge with Ii-no-suke Takaaki. (Note: following the Konshōin text of the Taiheiki.) In the spring of the first year of Kōkoku (1340), Kō-no-Moroyasu came and besieged Ii Castle, and for several months it was not relieved. In autumn the castle fell, (Note: compare the Hōreki Kanki and the Tsurugaoka Shamuki.) Prince Munenaga fled to Echigo, (Note: following the Rikashū.) and Tokiyuki went into hiding in the eastern provinces. In the seventh year of Shōhei (1352), he followed Nitta Yoshioki in an attack on Kamakura, put Ashikaga Motouji to flight, and together they entered Kamakura and settled there. Before long Yoshioki was defeated and fled to Kawamura Castle, and then went to Echigo. Tokiyuki lay hidden in Sagami and planned to rise again. The next year (1353) he was captured and finally beheaded at Tatsunokuchi. Nagasaki Suruga Shirō and Kudō Jirō also died with him. (Note: following the Tsurugaoka Shamuki.)

Momonoi Naotsune

¶Momonoi Naotsune was a descendant of Ashikaga Yoshiyasu. His great-great-grandfather Yoshitane first settled at Momonoi in Kōzuke, and his descendants took the place name as their clan name. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku.) Naotsune was valiant beyond the common run, (Note: following the Taiheiki.) and successively held the posts of Uma-no-gon-no-kami, Gyōbu-no-taifu, Danjō-no-daihitsu (Note: following the Entairyaku), and Governor of Suruga, and became Governor of Harima. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku, the Taiheiki, and the Kaei Sandaiki.) Ashikaga Takauji used him and made him Shugo of Etchū. (Note: following the Taiheiki and the Gion Shigyō Nikki.) In the first year of Engen (1336), when the Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Headquarters, Minamoto-no-Akiie, led over a hundred thousand troops against Kamakura, Naotsune followed Ashikaga Yoshiakira and defended against him, but was heavily defeated and fled to Hakone. The next year (1337) Akiie, pressing his victory, reached Kyoto, and Naotsune sallied out with the other commanders and followed on his tail. Akiie had set up camp at Aonogahara, but Naotsune, together with Toki Yoritō, chose over a thousand picked men and drove straight into his camp and fought hard for several tens of encounters; he received three wounds, his followers were killed and wounded almost to the last man, and with only some tens of horsemen he entered Kyoto. Akiie reached Nara, and Ashikaga Takauji wished to attack him but found it hard to choose a commander. Kō-no-Moronao said: "The Momonoi brothers are valiant and make the enemy army tremble. Nothing is better than to send them." Takauji followed this advice. Naotsune and his younger brother Naonobu received the order and set out that very day. Akiie held Hannyazaka, and Naotsune encouraged his officers and men, saying: "It is we brothers who have been especially chosen for this. If today's battle goes badly, all our earlier merits together will come to nothing. Strive, all of you." The men vied with one another to advance and fight the decisive battle, and defeated him heavily, and Akiie escaped alone. Takauji did not acknowledge his merit, and Naotsune harbored resentment. Just then Akiie's younger brother Akinobu gathered up the scattered troops and set up camp at Otokoyama, and Takauji wished to send the commanders to strike him, but the officers and men, seeing that Naotsune and the others had not received a reward, were unwilling to go forward. Kō-no-Moronao therefore set out with his whole clan, but gained no advantage. Naotsune heard of this and said: "I have not received an order, but how could I bear to sit by and watch their defeat?" He secretly spurred his horse to Otokoyama, fought for a day and a night, killed and wounded a great many, and the dead lay piled one upon another, and people of the age named the place Momonoizuka, the Momonoi Mound. In the fifth year of Shōhei (1350) Ashikaga Takauji fell out with his younger brother Tadayoshi, and Naotsune secretly communicated his intentions to Tadayoshi. When Takauji went west to strike his son Tadafuyu, Tadayoshi secretly escaped and rejoined. Naotsune returned to Etchū and raised troops, arranged a time with Tadayoshi, and attacked Ashikaga Yoshiakira. The next year (1351) Tadayoshi made camp at Otokoyama. Naotsune led the troops of the northern provinces out of Etchū, and as there was a great snowfall that buried the horses' feet, he had the soldiers ride on sledges to go first and open the road behind them so that men and horses could pass. He advanced as far as Enryakuji and rose up with fires lit in every direction. Yoshiakira, in fear, fled west. Naotsune entered Kyoto. Yoshiakira joined Takauji's army and came to attack. Naotsune met them, and they advanced and retreated against each other, and each withdrew to rest their troops. More than seven hundred of Sasaki Takauji's soldiers cut off Naotsune's rear, and the army was divided in two. Naotsune and his brother dismounted, sat down calmly, and cried in a great voice: "Life and death lie with Heaven. Do not retreat a single step." They fought for several hours, but Takauji and Yoshiakira blocked his way home, and Naotsune, receiving the enemy from three sides, with all his soldiers worn out, was in the end defeated and fled to Sekiyama. The next day Takauji fled west, and Naotsune again entered Kyoto. Before long Takauji and Tadayoshi made peace, and Naotsune and Ishitō Yoshifusa and others, relying on their power and boasting of their merits, fell out with Nikki Yoriaki, Hosokawa Yoriharu, Toki Yoriyasu, Sasaki Takauji, and others. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) Naotsune, returning at night from visiting Tadayoshi, was stabbed by a man out of the darkness. Because Naotsune was wearing armor he was not wounded, and he seized the assassin. (Note: following the Entairyaku.) Before long Yoriaki, Yoriharu, and the others all fled and went back to their own domains to make plans. Naotsune, together with Yoshifusa and the others, then urged Tadayoshi to flee to Echizen. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) When Takauji's troops reached Ōmi, Tadayoshi had Naotsune, Hosokawa Akiuji, and Hatakeyama Kunikiyo defend against them, but without advantage, and all the commanders fled in defeat. Only Naotsune remained in his camp for three days, and all his men urged him to return, but at last he withdrew his troops and went back to Echizen. (Note: following the Tenshō text of the Taiheiki.) At this time Hosokawa Akiuji and Hatakeyama Kunikiyo persuaded Tadayoshi to make peace with Takauji. Naotsune firmly opposed this, holding that it should not be hungered for. Akiuji and the others were angry and went back to Takauji's troops, and afterwards the soldiers fled one after another. Naotsune again urged Tadayoshi to flee to Kamakura. (Note: following the Taiheiki. ○ Hosokawa Akiuji follows the Tenshō text of the Taiheiki and the Entairyaku.) When Takauji led troops to attack, Utsunomiya Ujitsuna led troops and helped him. Naotsune met him but was defeated, and Tadayoshi's troops too were heavily defeated, and he finally surrendered to Takauji. Naotsune fled back to Echizen. In the seventh year (1352), when Ashikaga Yoshiakira pressed the emperor's carriage at Otokoyama, Naotsune, together with Nitta Yoshimune, Sakonoe-no-shōshō, answered by imperial order and went to the aid of the army. He advanced as far as Noto, but the carriage had already broken out of the encirclement, so he gathered his troops and returned to his province. In the seventh year (Note: so in the source; the year is repeated), righteous troops rose in many places, and Naotsune too raised troops in Shinano, and the powerful families of his own province, such as Nojiri and Iguchi, answered him. Those who hurried to join him grew in number day by day, and he prepared to attack Togashi-no-suke. More than three thousand soldiers of Noto and Kaga came and defended, but before their formation was ready Naotsune struck them from the flank and defeated them heavily. At night Naotsune, wishing to discuss military matters, secretly went to Iguchi Castle. Just then over three hundred soldiers of Noto and Kaga came over and surrendered, but because those around did not know where Naotsune was, the camp fell into great uproar and fire broke out by accident, and the surrendered soldiers took advantage of the confusion to strike back, killed more than three hundred, and returned. Naotsune, on the road, looked back toward the camp and saw flames rising, thought the enemy army had attacked, and turned back to defend against it. A certain defeated soldier cried out urgently: "The matter is lost. Flee at once." Naotsune did not know what to do and in the end fled and took refuge at Iguchi Castle. (Note: following the Taiheiki. ○ The Mōri-ke text and the Tenshō text say that in the nineteenth year Naotsune surrendered to the Ashikaga. But all the texts say that in the twenty-first year Ashikaga Yoshiakira sent Shiba Yoshimasa to attack Naotsune. Since the course of events is hard to verify, it is left unwritten.) Later he shaved his head and hid in Kyoto. In the twenty-fourth year (1369) he fled to Etchū and raised troops and took Matsukura Castle. In the first year of Kentoku (1370) he sent out troops again and dispatched his son Nakatsukasa-no-shōyū Naokazu to take the field at Nagasawa. The Shugo Shiba Yoshimasa joined forces with the troops of Togashi Takewakamaru and attacked, and Naokazu was killed in battle, and the remaining soldiers fled into Matsukura Castle. Before long they rebelled again and Naotsune fled into hiding. The next year (1371) he again raised troops in Etchū and fought Yoshimasa's troops without success, and fought the troops of Noto at Gobi-no-shō, (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki. ○ The present work writes the son Nakatsukasa-no-shōyū as Umanosuke, but here the Sonpi Bunmyaku is followed. The present work writes Yoshimasa as Yoshitsune, but this has been corrected according to the Taiheiki and the Sonpi Bunmyaku.) and was finally defeated by Yoshimasa. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) Nothing is known of his later fortunes.

Akaura Nobutane

¶Akaura Nobutane was styled Saburō and was a man of Bizen. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) He was a descendant of Sasaki Hideyoshi. His grandfather Tanayasu was the first to call himself Akaura. His father Nagatane was Satsuma-no-kami. Nobutane successively held the posts of Saemon-no-jō and Governor of Bizen. (Note: following the Sasaki Keizu.) In the early Kenmu years, together with Tai Nobutaka, he held Fukuyama in Bitchū, answered Ashikaga Takauji, and attacked Kyoto together with Hosokawa Jōzen. In the fourth year of Engen (1339) he submitted with Kojima in Bizen. Earlier, Kō-no-Moroaki had been involved with a lady-in-waiting of the Udaijin Fujiwara-no-Kaneyue, (Note: ○ Kaneyue follows the Kugyō Bunin.) and Nobutane, seeing her beauty, also secretly became involved with her. Moroaki did not notice this, and as he was about to go to Ise he asked the lady to accompany him. The lady pretended to agree, then withdrew and deceived an old woman, saying: "Old mother, you are aged and have no children; why not come down to the eastern provinces with me?" The old woman said, "Very well." At night, when Moroaki came to fetch the palanquin, the woman had the old woman board it and sent it off. Moroaki was overjoyed and set straight out on the journey, but at daybreak looked into the palanquin and saw the old woman; greatly startled, he thought it the work of a fox or badger and wanted to beat her to death. The old woman tearfully explained the circumstances and begged for pity. Moroaki, angry at having been tricked, hurried back to his base and searched for the lady, but she was already gone; he seized the lady-in-waiting and questioned her and heard that she was with Nobutane. Angrier still, he prepared to attack him. Nobutane, in fear, fled to Bizen and thereby submitted. The next year (1340) he attacked Shōdoshima and broke the enemy army, and sent a messenger asking that the commanding general be brought to tour the Chūgoku region. At this time the provincial governor of Sanuki, Fujiwara-no-Aritsune, and the Shugo of Iyo, Ōdachi Ujiaki, had also sent messengers seeking reinforcements. The emperor ordered Wakiya Yoshisuke, Gyōbu-kyō, to respond, but the roads were blocked and he could not advance. Just then Nobutane's messenger came bringing news of victory, and the emperor was greatly pleased, comforted and encouraged him by imperial decree, and granted him the post of Satsuma-no-kami. Yoshisuke soon set out, and Nobutane led his war fleet to meet him, and together they advanced as far as Iyo. Yoshisuke died of a sudden illness, so Nobutane led his troops home. When Hosokawa Kiyouji and Hosokawa Yoriharu fought each other in Sanuki, Nobutane led his naval forces and attacked and cut down Yoriharu's transport ships. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) Nothing is known of his later fortunes.

Kusunoki Masanori

¶Kusunoki Masanori was a son of Masashige and a younger brother of Masatsura. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) He was appointed Saemon-no-jō, (Note: following the Entairyaku, the Taiheiki, and the Kanshinji Monjo.) concurrently became Governor of Kawachi, (Note: following the Kongōji Monjo.) and was transferred to Sama-no-kami. (Note: following the Taiheiki, the Matsuoji Monjo, and the Kanshinji Monjo.) When his elder brothers Masatsura and Masatoki fell in battle, Masanori remained in Kawachi and made his home there. Kō-no-Moroyasu built a fort at Ishikawa and attacked Masanori. Hatakeyama Kunikiyo soon took his place. Throughout, Masanori held his castle firmly. In the fifth year of Shōhei (1350), Kunikiyo submitted, following Ashikaga Tadayoshi. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) Masanori on that account sent out troops to lend him voice and support. (Note: following the Entairyaku.) In the seventh year (1352), Ashikaga Yoshiakira opened communication seeking terms, but the emperor announced that he would lead the army himself and go to Kyoto, when in fact he meant to strike Yoshiakira. When the procession reached Sumiyoshi, the Provincial Governor of Ise, Uemon-no-kami Minamoto-no-Akiyoshi, led three thousand troops of Iga and Ise and advanced by the Tanba road. Masanori, together with Wada Masatada, led five thousand troops and crossed the Katsuragawa during the night. At dawn he fought Hosokawa Akiuji and defeated him, and cut down his nephew Hachirō. When Hosokawa Yoriharu arrived in succession, Masanori's soldiers used shields as ladders to climb onto the roofs and fired down at random, and the enemy soldiers quailed. Masanori let loose his horsemen in a charge and cut down Yoriharu. Yoshiakira fled to Ōmi. The emperor's carriage halted at Otokoyama, and Yoshiakira pressed on it with a great army. Masanori and Masatada led three thousand troops and defended against him at Arasakayama. They gained a slight advantage, but the few could not stand against the many, and they withdrew to Otokoyama and set up camp. Surrounded by the enemy troops, with the loyalist troops not arriving, the men proposed that Masanori and Masatada return to Kawachi and raise troops. Masatada, on reaching home, died of a sudden illness. Masanori dawdled and did not go to the rescue in time, so the imperial army in the end met defeat and Yoshiakira again occupied Kyoto. People of the time blamed Masanori and said that he had damaged the reputation of his house. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) Before long Masanori sent out troops and, with Kira Mitsusada, Ishitō Yorifusa, and others, attacked Settsu, struck a certain shugodai and put him to flight. (Note: following the Entairyaku.) The next year (1353), together with Wada Masatake, he followed the Chūnagon Fujiwara-no-Takatoshi, joined Yamana Tokiuji, and attacked Yoshiakira in Kyoto. Yoshiakira made camp at Kaguraoka and hid troops among the trees to be sent out. Masanori and the others wished to learn the size of his force and had five hundred soldiers dismount and lure him on foot. As they gradually approached the enemy camp, Sasaki Nobuakira sallied out, and Masanori struck him and drove him off by stratagem, and Yoshiakira fled without fighting. In the fourteenth year (1359), Hatakeyama Kunikiyo came west in force. Ashikaga Yoshiakira led Kunikiyo and the other commanders and invaded the temporary palace at Amano. Masanori, together with Wada Masatake, went to the court and memorialized: "In this campaign, we believe the imperial army will surely win. Of the things to be prized in warfare there are three: the time of Heaven, the advantage of ground, and the harmony of men. This year the great general is in the west, and attacking the east brings advantage, but campaigning in the west does not. That Dōsei (Note: the Buddhist name of Hatakeyama Kunikiyo) sends out troops to the west is to go against the time of Heaven. The place the imperial army holds has a great river in front and deep mountains behind. Since Genkō the rebels have attacked many times, and each time have withdrawn without advantage, and this is because we hold the advantage of ground. Dōsei outwardly makes military matters his pretext, while inwardly he means solely to seek merit and demand rewards, and is envied even by his own comrades. He has lost the harmony of men. If these three are lost, even a million soldiers are not to be feared. Only, because the lie of the temporary palace is inconvenient, we ask that the emperor's residence be moved for a time to Kanshinji, while we hold Chihaya and defend against and strike the enemy day and night at Ryūzan and Ishikawa. And if the families of Yuasa, Yamaki, Onji, and Niekawa are made to hold Ryūmonzan under a certain Enya, the Shugodai of Kii, and local troops are sent out to harass the enemy and give them no rest, the enemy will surely tire and turn back. If we take advantage of that moment to pursue, we shall surely break them." The emperor deeply approved and moved his residence to Kanshinji. Masanori then built the forts of Ryūsen, Ryūmon, Hiraishi, Yao, and others and divided his troops to hold them, and himself took three hundred men and held Akasaka Castle. Hatakeyama Kunikiyo and the others made camp at Tsutsuyama, divided their troops and attacked and took the several forts, and advanced to attack Akasaka. Masanori withdrew to Kongōsan and held it, drawing them out. Before long Yoshiakira pulled back his troops, exactly as Masanori had foreseen. Masanori again sent troops out to Watanabe. Earlier, Kunikiyo had been contending for power with Nikki Yoshinaga and they had been ousting each other, and now, using defense as a pretext, he sent out troops on his own authority. Masanori went into Kongōsan again, and Kunikiyo and Yoshinaga were about to cross swords. Yoshinaga confined Yoshiakira, and internal strife arose. The imperial armies of every quarter then rose together, and the castles, seeing how matters stood, collapsed and fled. Masanori took Mizuhaya Castle. In the sixteenth year (1361), Masanori attacked Sasaki Hideakira and his younger brother Ujiakira in Settsu and defeated them, killing and capturing over two hundred seventy, with a great many drowned as well. Pursuing, he cut down Hideakira and Ujiakira, recorded a register of the captives, gave them all clothing and medicine, and sent them home. In this year Hosokawa Kiyouji submitted and memorialized, asking that armies be dispatched to retake Kyoto. The emperor summoned Masanori, who answered: "Since Genkō the imperial army has retaken Kyoto five times, but in most cases it could not be done without borrowing troops, and what has pained us is that our military strength has not held out. Therefore, though we have taken it back many times, we have lost it many times again. Now, to take it requires no borrowing of Kiyouji's strength; I alone can manage it. But I fear that after taking it we shall not be able to hold it. If, ashamed to abandon it, we continue to fight, we shall lose even the territory we now possess entire. In my foolishness, I do not think this is good." But the emperor and the court nobles and attendants longed intensely to return to the old home, and so he was not heard. Masanori was therefore ordered to advance on Kyoto with Kiyouji. In the twelfth month the imperial army retook Kyoto. Before long Ashikaga Yoshiakira pressed in, urging on his armies by water and land. In the first month of the next year (1362) the imperial army abandoned Kyoto and fled south, exactly as Masanori had said. Kiyouji fled to Awa and arranged with Masanori to act together in east and west. Before long Kiyouji fell in battle, and the royal army was almost burned out. Masanori, fearing that the enemy would follow up their momentum and that the spirit of the imperial army was dejected, wished to fight one battle to raise its spirit. He gathered militia and obtained over six thousand men, advanced on Settsu, and took the fort of Jōkōji. He also attacked Akamatsu Mitsunori with Ishitō Yorifusa, and withdrew and camped at Amagasaki, but hearing that the enemy was sending out a great army, he drew back his troops and returned to Kawachi. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) After a while he was appointed Sahyōe-no-kami. In the twenty-third year (1368), the emperor died. (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki.) Masanori secretly harbored divided loyalties, (Note: following the Kōgu Maiki.) and Hosokawa Yoriyuki, taking advantage of this moment, enticed him, and Masanori at last made up his mind. (Note: following the Yoshōki.) In the spring of the next year (1369), he secretly opened communications with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. (Note: following the Gumaiki and the Kaei Sandaiki.) Yoshimitsu immediately sent a summons to Izumi and Kawachi and proclaimed to the local men: "Kusunoki Masanori has already surrendered to us." (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki.) The members of the Kusunoki clan who were on the path of loyalty to the emperor did not answer and joined forces to attack Masanori. (Note: following the Kōgu Maiki.) Hosokawa Yoriyuki conferred with Yoshimitsu and sent Akamatsu Mitsunori and Hosokawa Yorimoto to lead troops to rescue Masanori. Before they arrived, Masanori left his castle and fled as far as Shitennōji. (Note: following the Kōgu Maiki.) At last he entered Kyoto and met Yorimoto. The next day he had an audience with Yoshimitsu, and soon after returned to Kawachi. In the first year of Kentoku (1370), Wada Masatake sent out troops and, with his kinsmen, attacked Masanori. Masanori did not prevail and again fled back to Yoshimitsu. In the summer of the next year (1371), Yoshimitsu sent Masanori back to Kawachi, and for that purpose sent out a great army to lend him voice and support. At this time all the commanders said that Masanori would not be able to hold southern Kawachi. They therefore hesitated and did not advance. Hosokawa Yoriyuki urged Yoshimitsu and forced the commanders to cross the river. (Note: following the Kōgu Maiki.) In autumn Masanori was able to return to Kawachi. (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki.) Since Masanori had already surrendered to Yoshimitsu, the lord of the Northern Court removed him from his office. (Note: following the Watanabe Monjo.) A few years later he was granted the post of Nakatsukasa-no-taifu. (Note: following the Tsūhōji Monjo, the Tadain Monjo, and the Watanabe Monjo.) In the early Kōwa years (1381), he submitted again, (Note: compare the Tsūhōji Monjo, the Tadain Monjo, the Mitoya Monjo, and the Watanabe Monjo.) and his position as Sahyōe-no-kami remained as before. (Note: following the Watanabe Monjo.) Yoshimitsu ordered Yamana Ujikiyo, Shugo of Izumi, to attack him, and Masanori fought Ujikiyo at Hirao and was defeated. (Note: following the Wakan Gōunreki, the Tsūhōji Monjo, and the Mitoya Monjo.) Six of his kinsmen and one hundred forty of his household died in this battle. (Note: following the Wakan Gōunreki.) Masanori withdrew and returned and kept his old domain. (Note: following the Tsūhōji Monjo.) He was then appointed Sangi. (Note: following the Kanshinji Monjo.) In the Genchū years (1384-1392) he died. (Note: ○ I observe that the year of Masanori's death is not found in any book. However, considering the Kanshinji Monjo, the Futami Monjo, the Watanabe Keizu, and the like, in the twelfth month of the third year of Kōwa Masanori was still living. The next year the era was changed to Genchū, and around the seventh and eighth years of Genchū Masanori had already died and his son Masakatsu was conducting the affairs of the house. From this it is known that the year of Masanori's death falls within the Genchū years.)

¶Masanori was by nature prudent and fond of stratagem, and dealt sincerely with others. In his use of troops he first laid his plans and then fought, so for the most part he was not defeated. But in meeting the occasion and responding to changes, this was his weakness. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) Masanori had once been at the border with Akamatsu Mitsunori and they attacked each other; Mitsunori's retainer Uno Masahiro had as a child lost his father to Masanori's troops. Masahiro said to Mitsunori: "Masanori is your enemy and is also the enemy of my father. I wish to throw myself on Masanori and slowly plot against him." Mitsunori admired his resolve, gave him a famous sword, and sent him off. Masahiro came to Akasaka and approached Masanori through an intermediary. Masanori summoned and received him and treated him with great kindness and affection. Masahiro too was deeply moved by his favor. As the long years passed, he forgot his vengeance. When he reached fifteen, Masanori gave him a fief, but he declined and would not accept it. On the day of the seventh memorial service for his late father, he meant to carry out his first resolve. He shifted forward on his knees and laid his hand on his sword, but seeing Masanori sitting peacefully he could not in the end stab him; he rose and went out and wept loudly. Masanori wondered at this and asked the reason, and Masahiro told him the facts just as they were and drew his sword to kill himself. Those around him held him and stopped him. Masahiro then shaved his head and became a monk, and sent a letter to Mitsunori, returning the sword he had been given. Such was how he won men's hearts. (Note: following the Yoshino Shūi.)

¶His son Masakatsu became Uma-no-kami. When his father died, he took over his father's followers. (Note: following the Watanabe Keizu and the Futami Monjo. ○ I observe that nowhere in the authentic records does it appear that Masakatsu was a son of Masanori. For the present the Kajikawa Keizu is followed.) In the spring of the ninth year of Genchū (1392), he fought Hatakeyama Motokuni at Chihaya Castle, could not win, and fled back to Yoshino. (Note: following the Watanabe Keizu.) In this year the Northern and Southern Courts made peace, and the emperor returned to Kyoto. Masakatsu was despondent and did not achieve his aims. In the summer of the sixth year of Ōei (1399), when Ōuchi Yoshihiro fell out with Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and rose in rebellion holding Sakai Castle, near and far were greatly shaken. Masakatsu led three hundred troops and, together with Kikuchi Hizen-no-kami, aided Yoshihiro. In winter the castle fell and Yoshihiro was killed in battle. Masakatsu said to his men: "There is no profit in a futile death, and to beg for surrender is also something we hold to be our shame." He then led his troops in flight to Yamato, (Note: following the Ōei-ki. ○ The present work calls him only "Kusunoki" and does not give his name. The one then leading those followers was Masakatsu; therefore he is named so.) and nothing is known of his later fortunes. For several decades after that, it is said, members of the Kusunoki clan hid on the border between Yamato and Kawachi, and those who sought to restore their fortunes did not cease. (Note: compare the Gosukōin Gyoki, the Imagawa-ki, and the Kisei Nichiroku.)

Oyama Yoshimasa

¶Oyama Yoshimasa was a man of Shimotsuke and a ninth-generation descendant of Tomomasa. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku.) His ancestor Hidesato distinguished himself in service to the province, his descendants became a famous house, and the Oyama clan is its main line. (Note: following the Azuma Kagami and the Yūki Monjo.) His grandfather Hidetomo was at first named Takatomo and was styled Taifu Hōgan. In the Genkō years (1331-1334) he followed the Hōjō army and attacked Kasagi and Kusunoki Masashige's castle. (Note: following the Kōmyōji Zōsho Zanpen and the Taiheiki. ○ The original name follows the Sonpi Bunmyaku and the Genkō Nikki Uragaki.) When Nitta Yoshisada raised his righteous troops, Hidetomo came out and joined him, defeated Kanazawa Sadamasa at Tsurumi, and together they advanced to attack Kamakura and took it. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) He then became Governor of Shimotsuke. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku and the Baishōron.) In the second year of Kenmu (1335), he defended against Hōjō Tokiyuki's army at Fuchū in Musashi, could not win, and fell in battle. (Note: following the Genkō Nikki Uragaki, the Baishōron, and the Tenshō text of the Taiheiki.) He had two sons, named Tomosato and Ujimasa. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku.)

¶Tomosato's childhood name was Imainumaru, and he succeeded to the house while still a child. When Ashikaga Takauji rebelled, Tomosato followed him and won merit, (Note: following the Baishōron and the Tenshō text of the Taiheiki. ○ I observe that the Baishōron writes Imainu as Tsuneinu.) and became Saemon-no-jō. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku and the Yūki Monjo.) In the Engen years (1336-1340) he was taken prisoner by the imperial army. When he was about to be put to the sentence, Yūki Munehiro, saying that he was a kinsman, asked that he be held in his own unit. Later he returned to his province and again joined Takauji's party. The Jundaijin Minamoto-no-Chikafusa was in Hitachi, summoning the commanders and men of the neighboring provinces. Tomosato had a mind to submit and was about to answer him, but he could not give up his habit of waiting and watching, and in the end it did not come about. (Note: following the Yūki Monjo.) He died early. His younger brother Ujimasa succeeded him. This was the father of Yoshimasa. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku.) Ujimasa became Saemon-no-suke. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku and the Jōraku-ki.) In the seventh year of Shōhei (1352), the emperor went to Otokoyama and planned to retake Kyoto. He sent Kojima Takanori to the northeastern provinces to urge them to raise troops and aid Otokoyama. The Nitta clan and Ujimasa, together with Utsunomiya Kintsuna and others, all responded, but Otokoyama could not be held and fell, so it did not come about. (Note: following the Taiheiki.) He died soon afterwards.

¶Yoshimasa succeeded him, became Sama-no-suke, (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi.) and was appointed Governor of Shimotsuke. (Note: following the Sonpi Bunmyaku, the Kaei Sandaiki, and the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) In the sixth year of Tenju (1380), Yoshimasa raised troops, (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi.) and when Utsunomiya Mototsuna came to attack, Yoshimasa met him and cut him down at Mohara. (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki and the Kamakura Ōzōshi.) Thereupon Ashikaga Ujimitsu raised the troops of twelve provinces of the Kantō, took the field at Fuchū in Musashi, and sent Uesugi Norikata to attack Yoshimasa. Yoshimasa defended but without advantage, (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi.) sent a messenger to ask to surrender, and Ujimitsu accepted. (Note: following the Kaei Sandaiki and the Kamakura Ōzōshi.) But before long Yoshimasa in the end did not submit. In the spring of the first year of Kōwa (1381), Ujimitsu again raised a great army, took the field at Muraoka in Musashi, and sent Uesugi Tomomune and Kido Norihide to attack. Yoshimasa held Washi Castle and defended against them. A unit of the White Banner went first and broke through the outer works. Yoshimasa encouraged his troops and struck hard and drove them back, killing and wounding a great many, and they faced each other for several months. (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi and the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) Yoshimasa at times set ambushes and cut the enemy's supply lines, and at times set fires and burned the enemy's camps. (Note: following the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) Tomomune and the others had their soldiers carry grass to fill the moat and attacked by this means. Yoshimasa also sent out troops to defend against it, and many of the enemy were wounded and retreated in defeat. (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi and the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) In winter the provisions in the castle were almost exhausted, and there was no later relief force either. (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi.) Yoshimasa sent a monk to ask to surrender and said: "If you will graciously grant my request, I shall shave my head and become a monk and hand the duties of the house to my son Wakainumaru." Ujimitsu again accepted. Yoshimasa then left Washi Castle, handed it to the two commanders, and led his kinsmen to move to Gion Castle. He then shaved his head and changed his name to Eiken. Ujimitsu sent Kajiwara Michikage and a certain Miura to inspect it and had Wakainumaru succeed to the house. (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi and the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) Ujimitsu had never believed in Yoshimasa's surrender, (Note: following the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) and so did not hasten to disband his troops. The following year (1382), Yoshimasa himself set fire to Gion Castle and went into the mountains of Kasuo, took up a position on difficult ground, built a fortress and named it Hitsuzawa Castle, and divided his soldiers and sent them to hold Nagano and Terakubo castles. (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi and the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) He also hired grass-cutters and hunters and carried provisions in preparation. Ujimitsu said in anger: "I have been deceived by Yoshimasa again and again. Until I see Yoshimasa's head, I will not dare withdraw the army." (Note: following the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) He again sent Uesugi Tomomune and Kido Norisue to press Yoshimasa very hard, with a unit of the White Banner as vanguard, and they attacked and took Nagano Castle. Then Terakubo Castle too fell. (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi and the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) The next day the armies advanced together and attacked Hitsuzawa Castle. Yoshimasa's army was defeated and could no longer fight. Father and son fled under cover of night. (Note: following the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) The next day enemy soldiers caught up, and Yoshimasa killed himself, while Wakainumaru slipped away. In the third year of Genchū (1386), Wakainumaru raised troops holding Gion Castle, and the Shugodai Kido Shuri-no-suke raised the troops of the province and set up camp at Fukae-yama (Note: ○ in one text the character ka is written ru). Wakainumaru attacked him and put him to flight. Ashikaga Ujimitsu again led troops himself to Shimōsa and set up camp at Koga Castle. Wakainumaru judged that he could not stand against his strength and abandoned the castle and fled. Ujimitsu had the whole province searched but did not find him. (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi and the Sō Raiin Gyōjō.) After this Wakainumaru wandered from place to place with no settled home. In the third year of Ōei (1396) he went to Mutsu and secretly gathered the sons and nephews of those who had once served the emperor, and with them planned a righteous cause. Tamura Shōji and Sakanoue Kiyokane answered him. Earlier, Yoshinori, a son of Nitta Yoshimune (Note: the name Yoshinori follows the Kitsuregawa Keizu), had been hiding in Mutsu. Wakainumaru conferred with Kiyokane and made Yoshinori their general and raised the banner of righteousness in the neighboring provinces. The righteous followers of Musashi and Kōzuke all hurried to join. Wakainumaru then, with Yoshinori, Kiyokane, and the others, led their troops forward as far as the Shirakawa barrier. Ashikaga Ujimitsu himself commanded the troops of ten Kantō provinces and came to Shirakawa. Wakainumaru and the others finally knew they could not stand against him and broke up of their own accord and left. Nothing is known of his later fortunes. He had two sons, who were still young and were hiding among the common people. Ashina Morimasa captured them and sent them to Kamakura, where they were drowned in the sea at Mutsura. (Note: following the Kamakura Ōzōshi.)