ichi-no-tani

Updated: June 27, 2025

One was to fix upon the Minamoto the heinous crime of having done a sovereign to death, so that some avenger might rise in future years; the other was to hide the fact that Antoku was in reality a girl whose sex had been concealed in the interest of the child's maternal grandfather, Kiyomori. Yoshitsune's signal victories were at Ichi-no-tani and at Yashima.

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