Kusunoki Masashige (1294 - 1336) , 14th-century samurai who fought for Emperor Go-Daigo in the Genko War, the attempt to wrest rulership of Japan away from the Kamakura shogunate and is remembered as the ideal of samurai loyalty. Statue in Tokyo, Japan

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