Nitta Yoshisada's Retainer - a photo on Flickriver

            This statue of Nitta Yoshida's retainer can be found outside of Ohta Station in Gunma, Japan.

Nitta Yoshisada was born in what is now Ohta City in Gunma Prefecture 1301. The Nitta were a branch of the Minamoto clan but were not on the best of terms with the founder of the Kamakura Shogunate, Minamoto Yoritomo, and therefore did not hold any high-ranking office or position within the regime. Thus, there was really no love lost between the Nitta and the Kamakura government, which was now ruled by hereditary Hōjō regents. So when the Emperor Go-Daigo instigated a rebellion against the Kamakura Shogunate in a bid to restore imperial rule, the Nitta rose to the challenge, as well as did their other relatives, the Ashikaga clan, led by Ashikaga Takauji. Together, the Ashikaga and Nitta helped to bring about the end of the Kamakura Shogunate and it was Nitta Yoshisada who led the attack on Kamakura that effectively brought about the regime’s collapse in 1333. 

However, after the imperial restoration, things became quite testy between Ashikaga Takauji and Go-Daigo. A mere three years after the defeat of the Kamakura Bakufu, Takauji launched his own successful rebellion that put him in power, but forced a Northern and Southern split in the Imperial Court when Go-Daigo fled. Nitta Yoshisada, who never got along with his Ashikaga cousins, along with Kusunoki Masahige, allied themselves with Go-Daigo, and chose the losing side. Yoshisada died in battle against the Hosokawa in 1338. It is alleged that Yoshisada, when his horse was shot out from underneath him pinning him, cut off his own head. Gruesome, but probably not true.

Taken on: September 8, 2010

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