Nitta Yoshisada (新田 義貞, 1301 – August 17, 1338) also known as Minamoto no Yoshisada was a samurai lord of the Nanboku-chō period Japan. He was the head...

14th century. Nitta Yoshishige Nitta Yoshikane Nitta Yoshihusa Nitta Masayoshi Nitta Masauji Nitta Motouji Nitta Tomouji Nitta Yoshisada Nitta Yoshiaki -...

shogunate for over a century. Forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo and led by Nitta Yoshisada entered the city from multiple directions and destroyed it; in the...

and seized Kyoto. Soon after, Nitta Yoshisada joined their cause, and laid siege to Kamakura. When the city fell to Nitta, the Shogunal regent, Hōjō Takatoki...

fortress was first attacked in August 1338 by a small force under Nitta Yoshisada, numbering roughly fifty horse, in what would come to be known as the...

of the defected Kamakura general Ashikaga Takauji and rebel leader Nitta Yoshisada, defeated the Kamakura Shogunate at the siege of Kamakura in 1333....

k.a. Nitta Tarō (1135–1202), founder of the Nitta clan Nitta Yoshisada (1301–1338), samurai commander Nitta Yoshiaki (died 1337), samurai Nitta Yoshioki...

(1333–1336) of imperial rule under Go-Daigo assisted by Ashikaga Takauji and Nitta Yoshisada but would later lead to direct rule under Ashikaga, forming the Ashikaga...

katakana ヨシサダ. Yoshisada Isshiki (一色 義定, died 1582), Japanese samurai and daimyō Yoshisada Nitta (新田 義貞, 1301–1338), Japanese samurai Yoshisada Sakaguchi (坂口...

period (1336–1392) of Japanese history. Yoshioki was the second son of Nitta Yoshisada (1301–1338), who supported the Southern Court of Emperor Go-Daigo and...

Imperial forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo led by Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada attempted to intercept the Ashikaga forces led by Ashikaga Takauji...

his followers were killed. The Hōjō regency however continued until Nitta Yoshisada destroyed it in 1333 at the Siege of Kamakura. It was under the regency...

became disaffected. Daigo ordered Nitta Yoshisada to track down and destroy Ashikaga. Ashikaga defeated Nitta Yoshisada at the Battle of Takenoshita, Hakone...

with Nitta Yoshisada to destroy the Northern Court leaders Ashikaga Takauji and Ashikaga Tadayoshi. He fought a number of battles alongside Nitta and led...

and 16, 1333, it pitted the anti-shogunate imperial forces led by Nitta Yoshisada against the forces of the Hōjō-led Kamakura shogunate. It was the final...

By 1333, the rival warlords Ashikaga Takauji and Nitta Yoshisada had both joined the cause; Yoshisada would lay siege to Kamakura in the same year. When...

for the Nitta family in their support of the Southern Imperial Court against the Ashikaga Pretenders of the Northern Court. Nitta Yoshisada's fortress...

(parent house of Tokugawa clan) Nitta clan (parent house of Tokugawa clan) Minamoto clan (parent house of Matsudaira and Nitta clans) Imperial House of Japan...

festival is held annually on August 25. Nitta Yoshisada (新田 義貞, 1301 – August 17, 1338) was the head of the Nitta clan in the early fourteenth century,...

campaign was a rapid and direct assault during the Japanese Genkō War by Nitta Yoshisada that led up to the Siege of Kamakura in 1333. It consisted of a number...

to the emperor's side and attacked Rokuhara Tandai. Then, in 1333, Nitta Yoshisada invaded Kamakura and the Kamakura shogunate fell, and the Hōjō clan...

The Imperial army lifted the Siege of Chihaya and Imperial general Nitta Yoshisada won a string of victories in the Kōzuke–Musashi campaign in May, including...

Kamakura, one of the most dramatic events of that war, when forces of Nitta Yoshisada set fire to Kamakura, putting an end to the Kamakura shogunate. His...

support Go-Daigo. At the same time another warlord loyal to the emperor, Nitta Yoshisada, attacked Kamakura and took it. About 870 Hōjō clan, including the...

Court, and jointed the army of Nitta Yoshisada. After Nitta Yoshisada died, a total of 6,000 troopers of the army of Nitta Yoshioki and Wakiya Yoshiharu...

the Kamakura shogunate in the Kenmu Restoration. Yoshiakira assisted Nitta Yoshisada (1301–1338) in his attack on the Kamakura shogunate. During the Nanboku-cho...

Nitta Yoshiaki (新田義顕) (died 1337), son of Nitta Yoshisada, fought for Emperor Go-Daigo, against the Ashikaga at the end of the Kamakura period. He was...

Yoshitsune is enshrined in Shirahata Jinja in Fujisawa. Emperor loyalist Nitta Yoshisada in 1333 invaded Kamakura, deposing its Regent Hōjō Takatoki and ending...

Kamakura on May 29. Muneshige's disloyal behave was condemned, and Nitta Yoshisada decided to execute him because "Godaiin Uemon's spirit, which forsakes...

the Hōjō themselves when the entire family committed suicide after Nitta Yoshisada's invasion of Kamakura on July 4, 1333. Its ruins were found in the...