![]() Setting up his own military government in the capital, Takauji then installed a new emperor in opposition to Go-Daigo's court. In 1336, Takauji defeated pro-imperialists Nitta Yoshisada and Kusunoki Masashige in the Battle of Minatogawa and drove Go-Daigo out of Kyoto. Upon his successful retaking of Kamakura, Takauji began to turn against Go-Daigo, granting land to his retainers without the approval of the emperor. Now declared an enemy of the imperial throne, Yoritsugu went into hiding. Tokitsugu's son who inherited the office of ōhōri, Yoritsugu (頼継), was stripped from his position and replaced by Fujisawa Masayori (藤沢政頼), who hailed from a cadet branch of the clan. In July–August 1335, the Suwa and other clans who remained loyal to the Hōjō, led by Tokiyuki, instigated an armed rebellion with the intention of reestablishing the Kamakura shogunate, which was quashed by Takauji Yorishige, Tokitsugu, and some others who participated in this uprising – later known as the Nakasendai Rebellion ( 中千代の乱) - all committed suicide in Kamakura. Takatoki's son, the young Tokiyuki, sought refuge in Shinano with Suwa Yorishige (諏訪頼重, not to be confused with the Sengoku period daimyō of the same name) and his son, Tokitsugu (時継), the Suwa Kamisha's ōhōri or high priest believed to be the physical manifestation of Suwa Myōjin during his term of office. Testifying to the close connections between the warrior families of the Suwa region and the Hōjō is the fact that many members of the Suwa clan present in Kamakura during the siege of the city in 1333 committed suicide alongside Hōjō Takatoki. The Suwa clan suffered a heavy setback at the downfall of the Hōjō and the shogunate itself in 1333, when Ashikaga Takauji, a chief general of the Hōjō, switched sides and began to support Emperor Go-Daigo against the shogunate. The Suwa clan and the fall of the Kamakura shogunate The Suwa were themselves regarded as the most influential among the shogunate's vassals. Suwa branch shrines became numerous all across Japan, especially in territories held by clans devoted to the god (for instance, the Kantō region, traditional stronghold of the Minamoto ( Seiwa Genji) clan). For their part, the Hōjō, a clan of obscure origins who lacked an ancestral kami ( ujigami) of their own, looked upon Suwa Myōjin as the closest thing they had to a guardian deity. The shrines of Suwa and the priestly clans thereof flourished under the patronage of the Hōjō, which promoted devotion to the god as a sign of loyalty to the shogunate. ĭuring the Kamakura period, the Suwa clan's association with the shogunate and the Hōjō clan helped further cement Suwa Myōjin's reputation as a war god. A popular legend claimed that the god appeared to the 8th-century general Sakanoue no Tamuramaro and assisted him in his subjugation of the Emishi peoples who lived in what is now the Tōhoku region in thanksgiving, Tamuramaro was said to have instituted the religious festivities of the shrines of Suwa. The deity of the Suwa Kamisha, Suwa (Dai)myōjin (諏訪(大)明神), commonly identified with the god Takeminakata recorded in both the Kojiki (720 CE) and the later Sendai Kuji Hongi (807-936 CE, aka Kujiki), was worshipped as a god of warfare since the Heian period, as attested to by a 12th-century song anthology, the Ryōjin Hishō. Suwa Daimyōjin as depicted in the Butsuzōzui (originally published 1690). After the fall of the Hōjō, Enchū moved from Kamakura to Kyoto, where he served under Emperor Go-Daigo's court as a yoriudo (寄人) or clerk in the Court of Pleas (雑訴決断所 Zasso Ketsudansho, also 'Court of Miscellaneous Claims'), which handled minor lawsuits. ![]() Įnchū was originally an officer or bugyō under the Hōjō clan, which the Suwa served as vassals or miuchibito at the time. The Ekotoba was created under the supervision of Suwa (or Kosaka) Enchū (諏訪(小坂)円忠, 1295-1364), a member of a cadet branch of the Suwa clan, originally a priestly lineage of one of the component shrines of the Grand Shrine of Suwa, the Upper Shrine or Kamisha that had, by the Kamakura period, took up arms and became a clan of warriors. 1.2 The Suwa clan and the fall of the Kamakura shogunate.
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