oyamada

Updated: May 20, 2025

After Masashige's fall a similar fate must have overtaken Yoshisada, had not one of those sacrifices familiar on a Japanese field of battle been made for his sake. Oyamada Takaiye gave his horse to the Nitta general and fell fighting in his stead, while Yoshisada rode away. At first sight these sacrifices seem to debase the saved as much as they exalt the saver.

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