Asakura Yoshikage Bochi
福井県
The site where Asakura Yoshikage, last lord of the Echizen Asakura, died by his own hand after Nobunaga's 1573 invasion
The tomb of Sengoku warlord Asakura Yoshikage, surviving at Ichijodani in Fukui City. This is the final resting place of Yoshikage, the last lord of the Echizen Asakura clan who was destroyed by Oda Nobunaga, and his tomb stands quietly within the Ichijodani Asakura Clan Ruins. In 1573 Yoshikage was pursued by Nobunaga's great army, betrayed by members of his own clan, and is said to have died by …
Asakura Yoshikage (1533–1573) was the 11th and final lord of the Echizen Asakura clan. During the Sengoku period he controlled Echizen Province from Ichijodani, but his conflict with Oda Nobunaga deepened in the Genki and Tensho eras, and in 1573 he died by his own hand when Nobunaga invaded. His to…
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