Nitta Tomouji

Nitta Tomouji (1274–1318) was a Kamakura gokenin and the seventh head of the Nitta main house, the eldest son of Nitta Motouji and father of the celebrated Nitta Yoshisada. A 1314 document from Chōraku-ji names him Tomokane, showing he later changed his name to Tomouji while the Nitta lived under strong Ashikaga influence.

About 1313 he summoned his kinsmen the Asaya brothers, notorious bandits in southern Hitachi, to Nitta Manor and favoured them with lands and his sister's hand. He died of illness in 1318 at forty-five, before his father, leaving the young Yoshisada as his heir.