** Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese head of the Nitta clan ( d. 1338 )

His descendants set up the Kamakura shogunate, making his a prestigious pedigree claimed by many buke, particularly for the direct descendants in the Ashikaga clan ( that set up the Ashikaga shogunate ) and the rival Nitta clan.

Centuries later, Tokugawa Ieyasu would claim descent from the Seiwa Genji by way of the Nitta clan.

Kyoto by now was aware that Takauji had assumed wide powers without an imperial permission, for example nominating a Uesugi clan member to the post of Constable of Kōzuke, Nitta Yoshisada's native province.

In the same year, Kamakura was invaded by Nitta Yoshisada and the almost entire Hōjō clan, almost 900 persons, killed themselves at the family temple of Tōshō-ji.

* Amakasu clan ( 甘粕氏 )-cadet branch of Nitta clan who descended from Seiwa Genji ( disputed ).

* Matsudaira clan ( 松平氏 )-cadet branch of Nitta clan, by the Tokugawa clan descended from Seiwa Genji ( disputed ); famous for Tokugawa Ieyasu.

* Nitta clan ( 新田氏 )-descended from Seiwa Genji ; famous for Nitta Yoshisada.

* Sakai clan ( 酒井氏 )-cadet branch of Nitta clan, by the Tokugawa clan descended from Seiwa Genji.

* Wakiya clan ( 脇屋氏 )-cadet branch of Nitta clan who descended from Seiwa Genji.

* Yamana clan ( 山名氏 )-cadet branch of Nitta clan who descended from Seiwa Genji.

The common ancestor of the Nitta, Minamoto no Yoshishige ( 1135 – 1202 ), was the elder brother of Minamoto no Yoshiyasu, the common ancestor of the Ashikaga clan.

In the 1330s, Nitta Yoshisada led the clan and a number of other Minamoto vassals against the Hōjō clan regents.

The Nitta clan played an important role once again, allying with the Date clan and the Southern Courts, during the Nanboku-cho wars of the early 15th century.

was the head of the Nitta family in the early fourteenth century, and supported the Southern Court of Emperor Go-Daigo in the Nanboku-chō period, capturing Kamakura from the Hōjō clan in 1333.

On the approaches to the city, Nitta enjoyed some early victories, routing the Hōjō defenders and pursuing them towards the city.

* 1352 — Tadayoshi dies, Southern army recaptures Kyoto ; Nitta Yoshimune captures Kamakura ; Ashikaga forces recapture Kamakura and Kyoto ; Tadafuyu joins Southern Court ; Yamana Tokiuji joins Tadafuyu.

The match against Australia begins and Japan scores the first goal of the match with Tachibana brothers's skylab hurricane ; unfortunately Tachibana brothers gets injured and are substituted by Wakashimazu and Nitta.

Hatsumomo goes out of her way to destroy Sayuri by tarnishing her reputation in Gion, forcing Mameha and Sayuri to devise a plan to push Hatsumomo out of the Nitta okiya lest Sayuri's career ultimately die, and so arranges for her mizuage ( portrayed as a deflowering " ceremony " for maiko as a step to becoming full-fledged geisha ) to be bidden upon by several influential men, namely mentor Nobu Toshikazu, the president of Iwamura Electric ; and reputed mizuage specialist " Dr. Crab ", dubbed so by Sayuri due to his appearance.

In elementary school Akeomi Nitta loved baseball ; during junior high he chose not pursue sports, instead concentrating on other activities.

This rivalry came largely from the fact that the Ashikaga were ranked above the Nitta, despite their being descended from a younger ancestor ; since the ancestors of the Nitta did not fight alongside their Minamoto cousins in the Genpei War, they were never accorded power or prestige at Kamakura.

" They fought a number of battles, many of them in and around Kyoto, in the same locations as famous battles of the Genpei War ; in the end, Nitta was defeated, but continued to be a thorn in Takauji's side until his death on July 2, 1338.

When civil war erupted in Shou Lung between the Shou and the T ' u and the northern provinces of Shou were invaded by the Horse Barbarians, the remaining Waan daimyos took advantage of this opportunity and under the united banner of Nitta Shogoro, they were able to finally drive out the occupying Shou troops.

Nitta claims that the surrounding burial pits are contemporary to the stone jar as they are cut into the ancient surface on which the jar was placed.

In 1336, Tsunenaga was sent along with his brother Takanaga to be escorted by Nitta Yoshiaki to Echizen Province where, it was hoped, they could escape the attacks of the Ashikaga.

This army, led by Nitta Yoshisada, met Moroyasu's force on December 10, and they fought again ten days later.

Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the minor feudal domain of Ōtaki Domain, controlled by Honda Tadakatsu from Ōtaki Castle, controlled 18 villages within the district, with another 57 villages under the control of other domains ( including one village belonging to Nitta Domain in Tosa Province ).

Returning to his home province of Kozuke, Nitta rallied the aid of other descendants & vassals including his brother Nitta Yoshisuke of the Minamoto clan, and began to march towards Kamakura through Musashi.

Following the fall of Kamakura ( and of the Hōjō regency ), Nitta was appointed Governor of Echigo and Vice-Governor of Harima and Kozuke Provinces, as Emperor Go-Daigo redistributed the Hōjō lands.

Nitta Yoshisue, 4th son of Yoshishige, settled at Tokugawa ( Kozuke province ) and took the name of that place.

Yoshishige was the a landowner in the Nitta District of Kōzuke Province in present-day Gunma Prefecture.

Takauji, founder of the Ashikaga shogunate which, at least nominally, ruled Japan during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, at first established his residence at the same site in Kamakura where Yoritomo's Ōkura Bakufu had been ( see above ), but in 1336 he left Kamakura in charge of his son Yoshiakira and went west in pursuit of Nitta Yoshisada.

The biggest rewards were given to samurai, among them Nitta Yoshisada, the man who had destroyed the Kamakura shogunate, and Ashikaga Takauji.

Prince Morinaga's statue at Kamakura-gū in KamakuraPrince Morinaga, with his prestige and his devotion to the civilian government cause, was Takauji's natural enemy and could count therefore on the support of his adversaries, among them Nitta Yoshisada, whom Takauji had offended.

By February 23 of the following year Nitta Yoshisada and the Emperor had lost, and Kyoto itself had fallen.

By 1333, Ashikaga Takauji and Nitta Yoshisada had joined the cause.

Many samurai families belong to this line and had used " Minamoto " clan name in official records, including Ashikaga clan, Hatakeyama clan, Hosokawa clan, Imagawa clan, Mori, Nanbu clan, Nitta clan, Ogasawara clan, Satake clan, Satomi clan, Shiba clan, Takeda clan, Toki clan, etc.

He saw Nitta as a warrior, little different from the Shoguns, but also accused him of never being available when the Emperor called upon him.

The Hōjō regency, a unique episode in Japanese history, however continued until Nitta Yoshisada destroyed it in 1333 at the Siege of Kamakura.

On July 3, 1333, warlord Nitta Yoshisada, who was an Emperor loyalist, attacked Kamakura to reestablish imperial rule.

At the same time another warlord loyal to the Emperor, Nitta Yoshisada, attacked Kamakura and took it.

The Kamakura period ended in 1333 AD, with the destruction of the shogunate and the short reestablishment of imperial rule, under Emperor Go-Daigo by Ashikaga Takauji, Nitta Yoshisada, and Kusunoki Masashige.

* 1333: Nitta Yoshisada conquers and destroys Kamakura during the Siege of Kamakura ending the Kamakura Shogunate.

Yoshiakira assisted Nitta Yoshisada ( 1301 – 1338 ) in his attack on the Kamakura shogunate.

Soon after, Nitta Yoshisada attacked Kamakura, destroying the shogunate.

Takauji announced his allegiance to the imperial court, but Go-Daigo sent Nitta Yoshisada to reclaim Kamakura.

The imperialist offensive of 1352 directed against Takauji in Kamakura was made possible by the vast numbers of former adherents of Tadayoshi who became supporters of the imperialist leader Nitta Yoshimune.

In the first weeks of 1336 Ashikaga Takauji left Kamakura for Kyoto in pursuit of Nitta Yoshisada.