Rokkaku (clan)

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Rokkaku coat of arms (squares with seventh eyes on the corner)
Rokkaku Ujiyori

The Rokkaku ( Japanese 六角 氏 , Rokkaku-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) , a sideline of the Sasaki from the Ōmi province .

genealogy

  • Yasutsuna ( 泰 綱 ; 1213-1276), son of Sasaki Nobutsuna ( 佐 々 木 信 綱 ; 1181-1242), was the first to call himself Rokkaku towards the end of the 13th century, after the district of Kyōtos in which he lived. He was fully trusted by the Hōjō - Shikken , was a kebiishi (policeman), Saemon no jō (adjutant of the left gate guard), Iki no kami (governor of Iki) and was appointed Ōmi no shugo in 1245 .
  • Ujiyori ( 氏 頼 ; 1326–1370), Yasutsuna's great-grandson, was also Ōmi no shugo and Kebiishi. He joined the north side during the splitting up of the imperial courts and fought under Ashikaga Takauji and Yoshiakira . Ujiyori resided at the Kannonji (Ōmi) castle, which his ancestors had built.
  • Mitsutaka ( 満 高 ; 1369-1416), according to some sources, son of the Shogun Yoshiakira, was adopted by Ujiyori and followed him with all rights.
  • Takayori ( 高 頼 ; 1462–1520), Mitsutaka's great-grandson, sided with Yamana Sōzen ( 山 名 宗 全 ; 1404–1473) during the Ōnin War in 1467 and conquered the entire province of Ōmi from the Kyōgoku , the other Sasaki- Branch. In 1487, Takayori was besieged by Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihisa in his Kannonji castle and fled to the Kōya monastery . Yoshihisa died during the siege and was replaced by Ashikaga Yoshitane , who took up arms again in 1492. Takayori was beaten and forced to flee. At the death of Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado , he paid all expenses for the funeral. In recognition of this, he received permission in 1500 to add the imperial chrysanthemum and paulownia to his coat of arms. When Shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi was expelled from Kyōto by his rival Ashikaga Yoshitane, he sought protection from Takayori.
  • Sadayori ( 定 頼 ; 1495–1552), a son of Takayori, was initially a monk in Shōkoku-ji . Then his older brother Ujitsuna ( 氏 綱 ; † 1518) died, so that the domain fell to him. He was involved in the victory of Ōuchi Yoshioki ( 大 内 義興 ; 1477-1528) in 1511 over Hosokawa Masakata and was then Kanreidai (deputy governor-general of the Shogun). In 1518 he besieged Azai Sukemasa ( 浅井 亮 政 ; 1491–1542) in his castle Odani (Ōmi) in vain . Shortly afterwards, he raised new troops, marched to Kyoto in 1520 and expelled Miyoshi Nagateru and Hosokawa Sumimoto ( 細 川 澄 元 ; 1489-1520). He fell fighting the Miyoshi .
  • Yoshikata ( 義 賢 ; 1521–1598), Sadayori's son, supported Hosokawa Harumoto (1514–1563) in his fight against Miyoshi Chōkei ( 三好 長慶 ; 1522–1564) in 1549 . In 1555, he coveted part of the province of Ise and besieged the Chikusa castle, but Prince Chikusa Tadahara managed to negotiate a peace. Then Yoshikata fought against Matsunaga Hisahide at the pass Nyoi-ga-mine ( Yamashiro province ) and moved in 1558 with Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru in Kyoto. In 1562 he made peace with Miyoshi Chōkei, left his son to manage his estates, shaved his head (i.e. became a monk), called himself Shōtei and was accepted into the Shōbanshū. He learned the art of archery from Yoshida Shigekata and traveling from Saitō Jogen. He himself founded a school in which he taught the art of war in the manner of his family (Sasaki-ryū). After his son was deposed, he lived at the court of Oda Nobunaga .
  • Yoshiharu / Yoshisuke ( 義 治 / 義 弼 ; 1545–1612), Yoshikata's son, took over his father's lands in 1562, supported by Gamō Katahide ( 蒲 生 賢 秀 ; 1534–1584) as a consultant. In 1565, after the assassination of the Shogun Yoshiteru, his brother, the monk Gakkei, asked him to enforce his rights at the Shogunate. But Yoshisuke did not dare to take action against the powerful Miyoshi. Thereupon Gakkei asked Oda Nobunaga, who accepted the request, raised an army and marched on Kyoto. In the province of Ōmi he conquered some Sasaki castles, so that Yoshisuke finally had to seek refuge in the Kōya monastery. Yoshisuke was then besieged by Shibata Katsuie in his Namazue castle in 1572, had to surrender, lost all his possessions and from then on lived at Nobunaga's court. He later entered the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu . His descendants then belonged to the Kōke.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Shōbanshū ( 相伴 衆 ) consisted among the Ashikaga of high people from the sword nobility who accompanied the Shōgun on his travels.
  2. ↑ To the Kōke ( 高家 ) belonged to the Tokugawa period selected high families who had lost their property.

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 114.
  2. ↑ 佐 々 木 泰 綱 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved November 26, 2016 (Japanese).