norikage

Updated: May 5, 2025

A few years later, the Shin believers in Echizen joined these revolters, and marched through the province, looting and burning wherever they passed. No measure of secular warfare had been more ruthless than were the ways of these monks. The high constable, Asakura Norikage, now took the field, and after fierce fighting, drove back the fanatics, destroyed their temples, and expelled their priests.

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