The Taiheiki Account of Nitta Yoshisada’s Sword Offering
- Date of account
- 14th-century Japanese war chronicle
- Location
- Kamakura and eastern Japan
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Taiheiki includes episodes in which warriors interpret sacred signs, dreams, omens, and divine intervention during the conflicts surrounding the fall of the Kamakura shogunate. The Nitta Yoshisada material, including his famous sword offering to the sea, is particularly useful for examining how battlefield uncertainty becomes narratively organized through Shinto-Buddhist sacred geography. The work is a literary chronicle compiled over time, not contemporaneous military reportage. Its layers of composition and ideological shaping make provenance and historical reliability difficult to assess.
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