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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    battle. This manuscript goes on to say that during the Kenmu era, Kusunoki Masashige frequently used ninjutsu. According to footnotes in this manuscript...
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    shogunate over time, Takauji joined the banished Emperor Go-Daigo and Kusunoki Masashige, and seized Kyoto. Soon after, Nitta Yoshisada joined their cause...
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    greatest samurai was Kusunoki Masashige. He lived during the Kamakura period and represents the ideal of samurai loyalty. Kusunoki fought against the Kamakura...
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  • 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)...
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  • 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...
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    approached Kyōto. Kusunoki Masashige proposed a reconciliation with Takauji to the emperor, but Go-Daigo rejected this. He ordered Masashige and Yoshisada...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    the Imperial forces led by Kusunoki Masashige, it would eventually fall to the Ashikaga shogunate in 1390. Kusunoki Masashige's defense of this fortress...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    executed Fujiwara no Sumitomo, was the progenitor of this branch; Kusunoki Masashige, a celebrated pro-Imperial commander of the 14th century, claimed...
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    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...
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    Prince Moriyoshi joined forces with Kusunoki Masashige. Moriyoshi tenaciously defended Mount Yoshino. Masashige's heroics defending Chihaya, together...
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    reference to the famous last words of fourteenth-century samurai Kusunoki Masashige. Yamaguchi then knotted strips of his bedsheet into a makeshift rope...
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    of his comrades. He was the brother of Kusunoki Masatsura and Kusunoki Masatoki, and son of Kusunoki Masashige. Alongside his brother Masatsura, Nitta...
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    "Chrysanthemum Water"), comes from the hata-jirushi of the samurai Kusunoki Masashige. After the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Imperial Japanese Navy...
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    of later imagination. Rumors surrounding famous warriors, such as Kusunoki Masashige or Minamoto no Yoshitsune sometimes describe them as ninja, but there...
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    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...
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  • the Kamakura shogunate. Masaie took command of the Kusunoki family's forces when Kusunoki Masashige was killed at the 1336 battle of Minatogawa. Masaie...
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    headquarters of the Imperial Police are located inside the gate Statue of Kusunoki Masashige Wadakura Fountain Park – It opened in 1961 to commemorate the marriage...
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    the latter a reference to the last words of 14th-century samurai Kusunoki Masashige, and hanged himself with knotted bed sheets. The Japan Socialist Party...
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    operations in the American Revolutionary War Nathan Hale Homestead Kusunoki Masashige – a Japanese samurai, also famous for his last words before execution...
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