Inamuragasaki

[1][2] According to the Taiheiki, on the night before the attack Nitta watched from the top of a hill the enemy camp and its defenses closing the Gokuraku Pass, then the beach, blocked by heavy fortifications.

[1] The sea retreated by twenty chō (a mile), taking the Hōjō navy away and leaving ample space for his forces to penetrate.

[1] The stele at Sode no Ura (袖の浦), the tiny bay west of Inamuragaki, says:[7] 666 years ago on May 21, 1333[8] Nitta Yoshisada, judging an invasion on land to be difficult, decided to try to bypass this cape.

(Stele erected in 1917) In 1993, however, Japanese historian Susumu Ishii, after examining and comparing historical records and the results of recent surveys, declared that the date given by the Taiheiki must be wrong, and that the likely day of entry of Nitta's army must have been June 30, 1333.

[1] The Azuma Kagami states that, on September 21, 1181, shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo went to Inamuragasaki because of an archery contest that was going to take place on its beach.

[2] Since Nitta had spent a long time in Kamakura as a vassal of the Hōjō, he could have been familiar enough with its tides to be conceivably able to take advantage of them.

"It is said that the lord of Japan from the beginning, Amaterasu Ōmikami, enshrined at Ise Jingū, hid herself within a Vairocana and appeared as Ryūjin of the vast blue seas.