Kusunoki Masashige (楠木 正成, 1294 – 4 July 1336) was a Japanese military commander and samurai of the Kamakura period remembered as the ideal loyal samurai...

Kusunoki Masatsura (楠木 正行, 1326 – 1348) was the eldest son of Kusunoki Masashige (1294 – 1336), and succeeded him as the head of the Kusunoki lineage...

5 July 1336. The Imperial forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo led by Kusunoki Masashige and Nitta Yoshisada attempted to intercept the Ashikaga forces led...

shogunate over time, Takauji joined the banished Emperor Go-Daigo and Kusunoki Masashige, and seized Kyoto. Soon after, Nitta Yoshisada joined their cause...

Kusunoki Masasue (Japanese: 楠木正季, died July 5, 1336) was a samurai warlord during the Nanboku-chō period, and the younger brother of Kusunoki Masashige...

Japanese samurai Kusunoki Masashige (楠木 正成, 1294–1336), Japanese samurai Kusunoki Masatsura (楠木 正行, 1326–1348), Japanese samurai Michiharu Kusunoki (楠 みちはる, born...

battle. This manuscript goes on to say that during the Kenmu era, Kusunoki Masashige frequently used ninjutsu. According to footnotes in this manuscript...

greatest samurai was Kusunoki Masashige. He lived during the Kamakura period and represents the ideal of samurai loyalty. Kusunoki fought against the Kamakura...

approached Kyōto. Kusunoki Masashige proposed a reconciliation with Takauji to the emperor, but Go-Daigo rejected this. He ordered Masashige and Yoshisada...

Japanese samurai Inoue Masashige (井上 政重) (1585–1662), Japanese daimyō Jōjō Masashige (上条 政繁) (1545–1643), Japanese samurai Kusunoki Masashige (楠木 正成) (1294–1336)...

fight against the Kamakura, leading his father's supporters alongside Kusunoki Masashige. In 1333, Go-Daigo escaped Oki two years after his exile with the...

Go-Murakami, and ōdachi, which was dedicated by Ōmori Naoharu and killed Kusunoki Masashige. In the peaceful Edo period, ōdachi was no longer regarded as a practical...

Prince Moriyoshi joined forces with Kusunoki Masashige. Moriyoshi tenaciously defended Mount Yoshino. Masashige's heroics defending Chihaya, together...

Kagemitsu, by Kagemitsu. Bizen Osafune school. This sword was owned by Kusunoki Masashige. From the end of the Kamakura period to the end of the Muromachi period...

Kusunoki Masashige to raise an army. However, this first attempt failed, and Emperor Go-Daigo was captured and exiled to the Oki Islands. Kusunoki Masashige...

Kusunoki Masatoki (Japanese: 楠木 正時, died February 4, 1348) was a samurai lord during the Nanboku-chō period, and the second son of Kusunoki Masashige...

executed Fujiwara no Sumitomo, was the progenitor of this branch; Kusunoki Masashige, a celebrated pro-Imperial commander of the 14th century, claimed...

the Kamakura shogunate. Masaie took command of the Kusunoki family's forces when Kusunoki Masashige was killed at the 1336 battle of Minatogawa. Masaie...

His given name "Tamon" was the childhood name of the medieval hero Kusunoki Masashige. He attended the Kaisei Academy and was accepted into the 40th class...

(e.g., Akechi Mitsuhide), cowardly, brave, or overly loyal (e.g., Kusunoki Masashige). Samurai were usually loyal to their immediate superiors, who in...

Kusunoki Masashige to raise an army. However, this first attempt failed, and Emperor Go-Daigo was captured and exiled to the Oki Islands and Kusunoki...

gardens that ring the Imperial Palace. It contain bronze monuments to Kusunoki Masashige (楠木正成) and to Wake no Kiyomaro (和気清麻呂). The Imperial Palace and the...

the Imperial forces led by Kusunoki Masashige, it would eventually fall to the Ashikaga shogunate in 1390. Kusunoki Masashige's defense of this fortress...

of later imagination. Rumors surrounding famous warriors, such as Kusunoki Masashige or Minamoto no Yoshitsune sometimes describe them as ninja, but there...

Emperor Go-Daigo, and Kawachi became a hotspot for battles; Kusunoki Masashige's eldest son Kusunoki Masatsura was killed in action at the battle of Shijō Nawate...

"Chrysanthemum Water"), comes from the hata-jirushi of the samurai Kusunoki Masashige. After the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Imperial Japanese Navy...

reference to the famous last words of fourteenth-century samurai Kusunoki Masashige. Yamaguchi then knotted strips of his bedsheet into a makeshift rope...

emperor. In 1336, Takauji defeated pro-imperialists Nitta Yoshisada and Kusunoki Masashige in the Battle of Minatogawa and drove Go-Daigo out of Kyoto. Setting...

siege but would be banished to the Isles of Oki). Meanwhile, Kusunoki Masashige and Kusunoki Shichiro, two brothers who had sworn their allegiance to the...

operations in the American Revolutionary War Nathan Hale Homestead Kusunoki Masashige – a Japanese samurai, also famous for his last words before execution...