atsuta

Updated: May 22, 2025

Nobunaga's father, Nobuhide, had distinguished himself by subscribing liberally to aid the Court financially, and this fact being now recalled in the context of Nobunaga's rapidly rising power, the Emperor, in the year 1562, despatched Tachiri Munetsugu nominally to worship at the shrine of Atsuta, but in reality to convey to Nobunaga an Imperial message directing him to restore order in the capital.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

The brave men who engaged in this perilous enterprise were strengthened by worshipping at the shrine of Hachiman in the village of Atsuta, and their prayers evoked appearances which were interpreted as manifestations of divine assistance.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

Kusunoki Kawachi Kojima, Sakurayama, Arii, Yoshikawa Sanyo-do Nawa and Misumi Sanin-do Kikuchi, Matsura, Kusano Saikai-do Doi, Tokuno, Yuasa, Yamamoto Nankai-do Ii Totomi Neo Mino Shinto officials Atsuta This table suggests that partisans of the Southern Court existed in almost every part of the empire. So, in truth, they did.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era