Chōsokabe (clan)
The Chōsokabe ( Japanese 長 宗 我 部 氏 Chōsokabe-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) of the Sengoku period , who controlled the province of Tosa (today: Kōchi Prefecture ), and later the entire island of Shikoku . He is also sometimes referred to as a Chōsokame ( 長 曾 我 部 ). Chōsokabe Motochika , who united Shikoku, was the twenty-first daimyō of the clan and belonged to the group of the powerful Sengoku daimyō .
Chōsokabe Kunichika, early Sengoku period
At the beginning of the Sengoku period in 1508, Chōsokabe Kunichika's father named Chōsokabe Kanetsugu was killed by the rival Motoyamaklan . For this reason, Kunichika was raised by the noble Ichijō Husaie from the Ichijōklan in the province of Tosa . Later, towards the end of his life, Kunichika took revenge on the Motoyama clan and destroyed it with the help of the Ichijō in 1560. One of Kunichika's children was his son and heir, Chōsokabe Motochika .
Chōsokabe Motochika, late Sengoku period
First Chōsokabe Motochika took over the Ichijō family in 1574. Later, his victory at the Battle of Watarigawa in 1575 gave him control of the rest of Tosa. He also destroyed the Kono and Soga clan . In the following year he spread his influence over all of Shikoku by 1583 . However, in 1585 Toyotomi Hideyoshi , ( Oda Nobunaga's successor) invaded the island with 100,000 men, led by Ukita Hideie , Kobayakawa Takakage , Kikkawa Motonaga, Toyotomi Hidenaga and Toyotomi Hidetsugu . Motochika surrendered, lost the province of Awa , Sanuki Province , and the province of Iyo Hideyoshi granted him to keep control of his home province Tosa.
Under Hideyoshi's command, Motochika and his son Chōsokabe Nobuchika took part in the invasion of the neighboring island of Kyūshū , where Nobuchika died. In 1590 Motochika led the fleet that Hideyoshi used against the Hojō in the siege of Odawara , after the unification of the country he also fought with Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the war of invasion of South Korea in 1592. After Motochika died at the age of 61 in 1599, was his successor Chōsokabe Morichika .
Chōsokabe Morichika, after unification and before the Edo period
His successor, however, decided in the succession conflict at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 for the losing side, and so they also lost the remaining Tosa. This province got the Yamauchi. According to the prevailing opinion in Japanese historical studies, the Sengoku period ends with Sekigahara. During the battle, the Chōsokabe and many other clans of the Western Alliance remained loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori (whose troops were led by Ishida Mitsunari and Mōri Terumoto ) and helped fight the Eastern Alliance (led by Tokugawa Ieyasu ). After the victory of the Tokugawa forces at the end of the Sekigahara campaign in 1600, the remaining daimyō of the Western Alliance, including Chōsokabe Morichika, were beheaded. Tosa and other areas of Shikoku were given to the Yamauchi because they were loyal to Tokugawa.
Known entourage of the clan
- Tani Tadasumi
- Hisatake Chikanao
- Yoshida Takayori
- Yoshida Shigetoshi ,
- Yoshida Masashige .
- Shirō Sōkabe , a well-known missionary of the 19th century, was a successor to the Chōsokabe clan.
Web links
- 長 宗 我 部 タ ー ミ ナ ル サ イ ト
- 長 宗 我 部 オ フ ィ シ ャ ル サ イ ト ～ 長 宗 我 部 部 友 親 の ペ ー ジ ～
- 武 家家 伝 （長 曽 我 部 氏）
- http://www.samurai-archives.com/
literature
- Edmond Papinot: Chosokabe . In: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
Japanese literature
- 明石 鉄 男 編 『幕末 維新 全 殉難 者 名 鑑 1』 , Shinjinbutsu ōrai, 1986, ISBN 4404013353
- 秋 澤 繁 編 『戦 国 大名 論 集 15 長 宗 我 部 氏 の 研究』 , Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 1986）
- 『長 宗 我 部 時代 年表』 , Kōchi Prefecture, 1914
- 平井 上 総 『長 宗 我 部 氏 の 検 地 と 権 力 構造』 , Verlag Azekura Shobō, 2008, ISBN 9784751739907
- 山 本 大 『土 佐 長 宗 我 部 氏』 , Shinjinbutsu ōrai, 1974