hiyodori

Updated: August 29, 2026

But Yoshitsune himself had foreseen this and had determined that the best, if not the only, hope of victory lay in delivering an assault by descending the northern rampart of mountains at Hiyodori Pass. Access from that side being counted impracticable, no dispositions had been made by the Taira to guard the defile.

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