Nasu no Yoichi

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Nasu no Yoichi
Nasu no Yoichi, as depicted in a hanging scroll in the Watanabe Museum
Born	May 9, 1169 (First year of the Kaō Era)
Burial place	Sosein Temple, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Genseiji Temple in Otawara City, Tochigi Prefecture, Hekunji Soshoin Temple in Suma Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture
Other names	Munetaka
Spouse	Yoshishige Nitta’s daughter
Father	Nasu no Suketaka
Relatives	Mitsutaka Morita (Taro), Mikitaka imabuchi, Fukuhara Hisataka, Sukeyuki (Goro)）, Sanetaka Takita, Mitsutaka Sawamura、Yoshitaka Katata, Tomotaka Hieda, and Takashi Asakura.、Tametaka Senbon (Juro), Yoichi, and Yorisuke?, Sōjū

Nasu no Yoichi (那須 与一, Nasu no Yoichi) (c. 1169 – c. 1232) was a samurai who fought alongside the Minamoto clan in the Genpei War. He is particularly famous for his actions at the Battle of Yashima in 1185. According to the Heike Monogatari, the enemy Taira placed a fan atop a pole on one of their ships, daring the Minamoto warriors to shoot it off. Sitting atop his mount in the waves, his target atop the ship rocking as well, Nasu nevertheless shot it down with only one shot.^[1][2]

After the Genpei War, he was made shugo of Tottori Castle, but he lost this position to Kajiwara Kagetoki after being defeated in a hunting competition. He left Echigo Province and—following the death of Minamoto no Yoritomo—Nasu became a Buddhist monk in the Jōdo Shinshū sect. Eventually, he formed a temple, which has since been passed down to the oldest son of the Nasu family. For administrative purposes, detailed records were kept regarding who was to inherit the temple. As a result of this, it was possible to trace the Nasu lineage right up to the destruction of the temple during World War II.

There is another legend that his death in 1189 (or 1190) was disguised to facilitate his escape from Yoritomo's purge, and that the reason for his becoming a priest was that his complexion had changed due to Hansen's disease. Meanwhile, according to Yoshisada Nasu, Yoichi was pardoned and returned to Nasu after Yoritomo's death, became a priest in order to enter the Jodo-shu sect and died from paralysis in 1232 in Settsu Province, after a journey of about 30 years mourning those who had died in the Battle of Gempei-Kassen. ^[3]