Asakura (clan)

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The Asakura ( Japanese 朝 倉 氏 , Asakura-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from Prince Kusakabe (662-689), a son of the Emperor Temmu .

genealogy

  • Hirokage ( 広 景 ) served the Shiba and was entrusted with guarding Kuromaru Castle in Echizen Province around 1340 .
  • Toshikage / Takakage ( 敏 景 / 孝景 ; 1428-1481), a descendant of Asakura Hirokage, was one of the three main vassals ( 老臣 , rōshin ) of the Shiba family and settled in Ichijō-ga-dani ( 一条 ヶ 谷 ). In 1467 he defeated Kyōgoku Mochikiyo in Kaga Province , and during the Ōnin War he supported Yamana Sōzen ( 山 名 宗 全 ; 1404-1473). Shortly thereafter, the Shiba appointed him military governor ( shugo ) of Echizen province.
  • Norikage ( 教 景 ; 1476–1555) fought continuously against the uprisings of the Ikkō sect ( 一向 宗 , Ikkō-shū ) in the provinces of Echizen, Kaga and Noto .
  • Yoshikage ( 義 景 ; 1533-1573) defeated the troops of the Ikkō sect, dictated the peace to her in 1562, gave his daughter to the high priest as a wife and achieved that the sect was limited to the province of Kaga. - In 1566 Ashikaga Yoshiaki asked him to help him depose his brother, Yoshiteru , but Yoshikage refused and asked Oda Nobunaga to take on this difficult task. This then put Yoshiaki as a new Shogun in Kyoto. When Yoshikage was ordered to Kyoto, he refused. Nobunaga then allied with Tokugawa Ieyasu , marched into Echizen, and was about to besiege Ichijō-ga-dani. Yoshikage then asked Azai Nagamasa ( 浅井 長 政 ; 1545–1573) for help, whereupon Nobunaga broke off the campaign and withdrew to Kyoto. Nobunaga did not give up, however, set out with reinforced troops and defeated his opponents on the banks of the Ane River. At the urging of Emperor Ōgimachi, peace was concluded, but Nobunaga continued the war in 1573 and captured Ichijō-ga-dani. Yoshikage then killed himself with his entire family.
  • Nobumasa ( 宣 正 ; 1583–1637), a nephew of Yoshikage, served Hideyoshi and Ieyasu. In 1625 he received the Kakegawa Castle in Tōtōmi Province with an income of 25,000 Koku . He was implicated in the attack by Dainagon Tadanaga, of which he was an advisor, and was deposed in 1632. He was exiled to Kōriyama and died there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Owada, Yasutsune: Kakegawa-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 : Triple Mokkō.

literature

  • Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .