sukeyasu

Updated: June 13, 2025

Cognate instances might be multiplied. In the year 1193, the first case of the vendetta occurred in Japan. Yoritomo organized a grand hunting party on the moors at the southern base of Fuji-yama. Among those that accompanied him was Kudo Suketsune, who had done to death Soga no Sukeyasu. The elder was killed in the enterprise; the younger, captured and beheaded.

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