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Updated: May 31, 2025

The Nitta chieftain himself retired rapidly to Kyoto with a mere remnant of his army, and effected a union with the forces of the ever-loyal Kusunoki Masashige and Nawa Nagatoshi, who had given asylum to Go-Daigo at the time of the escape from Oki. The cenobites of Hiei-zan also took the field in the Imperial cause.

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

Narita Kosaburo and the Nawa brothers, Yasunaga and Nagataka the name of the last was afterwards changed by the Emperor to Nagatoshi thus became associated in a scheme for assisting the exile to recover his freedom.

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