Nitta Motouji

Nitta Motouji (1253–1324) was a Kamakura warrior and gokenin, the sixth head of the Nitta main house. Although he was the fifth son of Nitta Masauji, he became clan head at nineteen over his elder brothers, possibly because his mother was a daughter of Akahashi Hidetoki of the Hōjō family.

In a dispute over rice fields he backed his kinsman Ōdate Muneyuji against Iwamatsu Tsunekane and his sons, but the Kamakura shogunate ruled in his rivals' favour. He died in 1324 aged seventy-two and was buried at Enpuku-ji; Nitta Yoshisada was his grandson.