Nawa Motonaga

Nawa Motonaga, second son of Nawa Nagatoshi, was a warrior across the late Kamakura and Northern and Southern Courts years. In 1333, after Emperor Go-Daigo escaped his exile on Oki, Motonaga and his clan welcomed the emperor at Mount Senjō in Hōki Province and rose against the Kamakura shogunate, defeating its punitive commander Enya Takasada in battle.

He was known as Magosaburō and titled Saemon-no-jō, and took the Buddhist name Shin'a. He is said to have later entered religion on Mount Kōya.