Nasu No Yoichi

Nasu No Yoichi (那須与一) (approx. 1169 - approx. 1232) Samurai end of the era Heian was a which owes its celebrity with an incident of the Guerre of Gempei reported in the Heike Monogatari .

The March 22nd 1185, during the naval Battle of Yashima, the Taira had placed a range at the top of the mast of one of their Bateau X, protesting that it would protect the ship from the arrows, and defied the warriors Minamoto to make it fall (according to Dr. Stephen Turnbull, they acted thus with an aim of making waste invaluable arrows in Minamoto). Advancing with its horse among the waves, and in spite of the pitching which agitates the boat, Nasu manages to cut down the range of only one arrow.

After the war of Gempei, new the Shogun Minamoto No Yoritomo rewards it by doing it Daimyō Château for Tottori, but it loses this position after being beaten by Kagetoki Kajiwara in a competition of hunting. It then leaves the Province of Echigo, and, after the death of Yoritomo, becomes Buddhist monk within the sect Jōdo Shinshū.

One supposes that he died in 1232, at the 64 years age, during a ceremony held with Kōbe in the honor of died of the war of Gempei.

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