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Tomyo-ji Nawate: The Site of Yoshisada Nitta’s Death

Tomyo-ji Nawate: The Site of Yoshisada Nitta’s Death (Tomyo-ji Nawate Nitta Yoshisada Senbotsu Densetsuchi) is the place where farmers dug up a helmet in the Meireki Era (1655–1657) inscribed with “元応元年”, meaning the year 1319. This led to the belief that this site is where Yoshisada Nitta, a samurai from the Nanbokucho Era, died in battle. The fourth feudal lord of the Fukui Domain, Mitsumichi Matsudaira erected a monument on this site in 1660, marking it as the site where Yoshisada Nitta died in battle on July 2, 1338. Since then, this site has come to be called Nitta-zuka (burial site).

    National designated historic site
    (designated December 9, 1924)

  • Management body

    Fukui City

  • Location

    Nittazuka-cho, Fukui City

  • Classification

    Ruin

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