kunikiyo

Updated: May 16, 2025

He had just succeeded in quelling the defection of the Nitta family, and his military power was so great that his captains conceived the ambition of marching to Kyoto and supplanting Yoshiakira by Motouji. But the latter, instead of adopting this disloyal counsel, despatched a large army under Hatakeyama Kunikiyo to attack the Southern Court.

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