yoshinaga's

Updated: May 12, 2025

This must have been fully apparent to Kusunoki Masashige, an able strategist. Yet a delay of some weeks occurred. A quasi-historical record, the Taiheiki, ascribes this to Yoshinaga's infatuated reluctance to quit the company of a Court beauty whom the Emperor had bestowed on him. Probably the truth is that the Imperialists were seriously in want of rest and that Yoshisada fell ill with fever.

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