Nobue Tsuchimochi

Nobue Tsuchimochi was a warrior of the Agata-Tsuchimochi house of northern Hyūga who fought for Ashikaga Takauji and the Northern Court in the Kenmu wars. In the twelfth month of 1335 his men stormed the Mukasa-in manor office, where Itō Sukihiro had barricaded himself.

His own battle report, the Tsuchimochi Nobue gunchūjō issued in 1336, is the first record of Mukasa Castle. In 1336 he defended Takauji's private fief of Mukasa-in against Sagara Yorihiro's attack.