shinano-kotsuke

Updated: October 4, 2026

Running inland from the circumference of the fan are Shinano and Kotsuke, in which two provinces, also, a powerful Minamoto resurrection synchronized with, but was independent of, the Yoritomo movement. The hero of the Shinano-Kotsuke drama was Minamoto no Yoshinaka, commonly called Kiso Yoshinaka, because his youth was passed among the mountains where the Kiso River has its source.

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