He fought against the partisans of the Northern pretender led by Ashikaga Takauji brothers in a see-saw campaign which saw the capital change hands several times.

In 1660, a farmer tilling the land near the site of the battle uncovered a kabuto helmet and presented it to Matsudaira Mitsumichi, daimyō of Fukui Domain.

In 1870, the imperial governor of Fukui, Matsudaira Mochiaki, built a Shinto shrine on top of the Nitta-zuka.

This shrine was named "Fujishima Jinja" in 1876 and was given a formal ranking in the State Shinto system.

It is one of the Fifteen Shrines of the Kenmu Restoration, built by the Meiji government to commemorate the events of the Nanboku-chō period and to promote loyalty to the Imperial family of Japan.