horiguchi

Updated: May 23, 2025

It was in vain that Horiguchi Sadamitsu recounted Yoshisada's services, detailed the immense sacrifices he had made in the Imperial cause, and declared that if the Emperor were determined to place himself in Takauji's hands, he should prepare his departure from Hiei-zan by summoning to his presence Yoshisada with the other Nitta leaders and sentencing them to death.

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