In 1333, when the Emperor Go-Daigo had raised an army at Mt. Senjosan in Hoki Province, Takauji, the powerful vassal of the Kamakura shogunate, was sent to Kyoto leading the main armies of the shogunate to put down the rebellion, but he switched sides and gathered an army against the shogunate at Shinomura Hachimangu in Tamba Province to capture Rokuhara Tandai.
元弘3年に後醍醐天皇が伯耆船上山で挙兵した際、鎌倉幕府の有力御家人として幕府軍を率いて上洛したが、丹波篠村八幡宮で反幕府の兵を挙げ、六波羅探題を滅ぼした。