Aterui（阿弖流為）of the Misawa Emishi was a tribal leader of the Emishi tribes of Tohoku from his unknown birth date to his death in the 21rst year of Enryaku (802 AD) famous for his desperate struggle against the invasions of the Japanese dynasty of Yamato to defend Northern Japan from their conquest during the 38 years war. Very little is known about this mysterious man other than the fact that sometime around the 8th year of Enryaku (789 AD), he rallied multiple tribes of Emishi to form a confederation and stand against the Yamato, sparking the thirty-eight years war between the Emishi and the Yamato. After his victory against Sei Taishogun Ki Nokosami, especially at the battle of Subushi village, Aterui and the Emishi pushed the Yamato forces out of Tohoku until the arrival of Aterui's greatest rival: Sakanoue no Tamuramaro. While the war between these two legendary leaders is little-known, Tamuramaro eventually defeated Aterui and pushed him and his right-hand man More to surrender to the Yamato alongside 500 Emishi warriors. While Tamuramaro tried to convince the Yamato bureaucrats to let Aterui live, it was finally decided that he and the captured Emishi would be executed. To this day, Aterui is remembered as a brave hero who fought for the rights and lands of his tribes.
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