kiyowara

Updated: May 12, 2025

It was a family quarrel between the scions of Kiyowara Takenori, a magnate of Mutsu who had rendered conclusive assistance to Yoshiiye in the Nine-years' War; and as a great landowner of Dewa, Kimiko Hidetake, took part, the whole north of Japan may be said to have been involved.

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