BATTLE OF AWAZU

Continuing to flee from his cousins' armies after attacking Kyoto, burning the Hōjūjiden, and kidnapping Emperor Go-Shirakawa, Minamoto no Yoshinaka made his final stand at Awazu. He had met up with his companion & foster brother Imai Kanehira at Seta, along the way. They fought valiantly, holding off Noriyori's thousands of men for a time.
However, in the end, they met their ends; Yoshinaka was struck dead by an arrow when his horse became mired in a paddy field, and Imai committed suicide, leaping off his horse while holding his sword in his mouth.

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★ Sansom, George (1958). ''A History of Japan to 1334''. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

★ Turnbull, Stephen (1998). ''The Samurai Sourcebook''. London: Cassell & Co.