Nitta Yoshishige was a grandson of [[Minamoto no Yoshiie]], and ancestor of the [[Nitta clan]].
Nitta Yoshishige was a grandson of [[Minamoto no Yoshiie]], and ancestor of the [[Nitta clan]].
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Long considered to be of the [[court ranks|Lower Junior Fifth Rank]], Yoshishige was posthumously elevated to the Junior Second Rank in [[1850]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 280.</ref>
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==References==
==References==
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 304n124.
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 304n124.