Kitabatake Chikafusa and his son Akiie
are enshrined in this shrine . This shrine
was founded in the 15 th year of Meiji and
the building of those days was destroyed
by this War . Both of them were military
commanders in the Northern and Southern Dynasties
and played an active role at the time
of Kenmunochuko ( the Kenmu Restoration )
as followers of the Southern Dynasty . Chikafusa
wrote the first legal history of legislation
in Japan , Shokugensho , and the legitimacy
of the Southern Dynasty , Jinnoshotoki ,
and died at Yamato Anou (Nara Prefecture
) the age 61 in the 9 th year of Shohei (1354)
. His son Akiie . after continuing to fight
successively in various places , lost the
battle against Ashikaga Takauji at Abeno
(or around Ishizugawa river , Hyogo Prefecture
) bravely died with all his subordinates
at 21 .
The transmitted tomb of Akiie had been
called Daimyozuka ( tomb of a daimyo ) .
The tomb's monument was founded by Namikawa
Seisyo in the years of the Kyoho era (about
1720 ) .
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