Shibata Katsuie

Shibata Katsuie

Shibata Katsuie ( Japanese 柴 田 勝 家 , Shibata Katsuie ) (* 1522 - 14 June 1583 ) was a high-ranking general of the Japanese territorial prince Oda Nobunaga and married to his sister Oichi.

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Katsuie participated in the plot of the Hayashi Mitsukata to replace Nobunaga by his brother Nobuyuki (信 行; 1536–1557). Ikeda Nobuteru (池 田信輝; 1536–1584), who was sent against them, defeated them, and Katsuie submitted to Nobunaga. In 1570 Nobunaga entrusted him the castle Chōkōji (長興 寺 城) in the province of Provinzmi , which he had taken from the Sasaki . Rokkaku Yoshisuke besieged the castle but was turned away.

After the successful campaign against the Azai and Asakura , Katsuie received the provinces of Echizen and Kaga as a fief in 1579 and settled in Kita-no-shō (now Fukui ).

In 1582 Katsuie attacked the province of Noto , but the three daimyō there, Yuza (遊 佐), Miyake and Nukui (貫 井) turned to Uesugi Kagekatsu (上杉 景 勝; 1556–1623). Katsuie was preparing for a battle with the powerful daimyo of Echigo when he learned of Nobunaga's death. He immediately set out to capture Akechi Mitsuhide , but didn't arrive until Mitsuhide was already defeated.

Katsuie participated in meetings of the daimyo, which ended with the fact that Oda Hidenobu (織 田秀信; 1581-1602), a grandson of Nobunagas, was determined to be Nobunaga's successor. In time, he became more and more jealous of the becoming powerful Toyotomi Hideyoshi and decided to get rid of him. When arguments then began between Nobunaga's son Oda Nobutaka (織 田信孝; 1558–1583) and the designated Taikō, he took the latter side. A war began, which Katsuie lost in the battle of Shizugatake in Ōmi province due to the misconduct of Sakuma Morimasa (佐 久 間 守 正; 1554–1583). Hideyoshi then besieged Kita-no-shō, and Katsuie, who saw himself in a hopeless situation, set the castle on fire and - together with his wife, she was 37 years old, and 30 subjects - took their own lives.

Katsuie's wife was Nobunaga's sister. After they were married for a while, she left Katsuie and married Asai Nagamasa (浅井 長 政; 1545–1573) in 1568, with whom she had three daughters. After Nagamasa's death, she returned to Katsuie. When Kita-no-shō was lost, Katsuie asked her to flee with her daughters. She refused, but gave her children into safe hands, who would keep them safe. Of her three daughters, the eldest married Yodo-gimi, Hideyoshi, the second Kyōgoku Takatsugu (京 極高 次; 1560-1609) and the third married the future Shogun, Tokugawa Hidetada .

Remarks

1. ↑ Rokkaku Yoshisuke (六角 義 弼; † 1612) came from a side branch of the Sasaki.

literature

• Papinot, Edmond: Shibata . In: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprinted by Tuttle, 1972 edition of 1910 edition. ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .

See also

• Shibata (clan)

Web links

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