Saitō Dōsan

Portrait of Saitō Dōsan

Saitō Dōsan ( Japanese 斎 藤 道 三 , Dōsan Saitō ; * 1494 ; † May 28, 1556 ) was a Japanese daimyo of Mino Province during the Sengoku period . He was Oda Nobunaga's father-in-law .

Life

At first, Saitō Dōsan was a follower of the Toki . Due to the turmoil of the Sengoku period, however, he drove them out and took control of the province of Mino himself . In 1547 he defeated his neighbor Oda Nobuhide from Owari in a battle. Two years later, Oda Nobuhide married his son Nobunaga with Saitō Dōsan's daughter, which can be seen as evidence that the Oda now had a certain military strength and were viewed by Dōsan as a major power factor in the region. In 1555, his eldest son rebelled against him when rumors surfaced that he would be disinherited. Father and son met on the battlefield in 1556; Saitō Dōsan was defeated and killed.

family

Saitō Dōsan was married to Ōmi no kata , a daughter of Akechi Mitsutsugu . He had several children, including his successor and murderer Saitō Yoshitatsu (* 1527, † 1561).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Sesko: History about the Japanese sword. Norderstedt 2nd edition 2010, p. 129.
2. ^ Paul Davis: Masters of the Battlefield. Great Commanders from the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era. Oxford et al. a. 2013, p. 247.

predecessor	Office	successor
Toki Yorinari	Daimyo of Mino 1542–1556	Saitō Yoshitatsu

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Saitō is the family name, Dōsan the first name.