Hosokawa Tadaoki
Hosokawa Tadaoki 細川忠興 | |
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 Hosokawa Tadaoki | |
| Head of Kumamoto-Hosokawa clan | |
| In office 1582–1620 | |
| Preceded by | Hosokawa Fujitaka |
| Succeeded by | Hosokawa Tadatoshi |
| Daimyō of Nakatsu | |
| In office 1600–1602 | |
| Succeeded by | Ogasawara Nagatsugu |
| Daimyō of Kokura | |
| In office 1602–1620 | |
| Succeeded by | Hosokawa Tadatoshi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 28, 1563 |
| Died | January 18, 1646 (aged 82) Daitoku-ji, Kyoto |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Spouse | Hosokawa Gracia |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Oda clan Toyotomi clan Eastern Army Tokugawa shogunate |
| Unit |  Hosokawa clan |
| Battles/wars | Battle of Komaki and Nagakute Odawara Campaign Korean campaign Battle of Sekigahara Siege of Osaka |
Hosokawa Tadaoki (細川忠興, November 28, 1563 – January 18, 1646) was a Japanese samurai warrior of the late Sengoku period and early Edo period.[1] He was the son of Hosokawa Fujitaka with Numata Jakō, and he was the husband of a famous Christian convert (Kirishitan), Hosokawa Gracia. For most of his life, he went under the name of Nagaoka Tadaoki that had been adopted by his father and was related to a town that was in their domain.[2] Shortly after the victory at Sekigahara, Nagaoka Tadaoki reverted to his original name Hosokawa Tadaoki.[3]
Biography[edit]
Tadaoki was the eldest son of Hosokawa Fujitaka.[4] He fought in his first battle at the age of 15. In that battle, he was in the service of Oda Nobunaga. His childhood name was Kumachiyo (熊千代). Tadaoki was given the Province of Tango in 1580. Soon after that, he married Hosokawa Gracia, the daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide.
In 1582, Akechi Mitsuhide rebelled against Nobunaga and Nobunaga was killed. Akechi turned to Hosokawa Fujitaka and Hosokawa Tadaoki for help. They refused to help him, later Mitsuhide was defeated by Hideyoshi.
Tadaoki was present on Hideyoshi's side in the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute (1584) and the Odawara Campaign (1590), where he took part in the siege of Nirayama (Izu Province) and later joined the main army outside Odawara. During the 1590s he became friends with Tokugawa Ieyasu (who had lent him money to assist in some debts owed Toyotomi Hidetsugu) and in 1600 sided with him against Ishida Mitsunari.
He was succeeded by Hosokawa Tadatoshi (1586–1641), who was present at the Siege of Shimabara (1637–1638). In 1632 Tadatoshi received a huge fief in Higo (Kumamoto, 540,000 koku), where the Hosokawa family remained until 1871.
In 1598 after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the government of Japan have an accident when seven military generals consisted of Fukushima Masanori, Katō Kiyomasa, Ikeda Terumasa, Kuroda Nagamasa,Asano Yoshinaga , Katō Yoshiaki, and Tadaoki himself plotted a conspiracy to kill Ishida Mitsunari. It was said that the reason of this conspiracy was dissatisfaction of those generals towards Mitsunari as he underreporting the achievements of those generals during the Imjin war against Korea & Chinese empire.[5] At first, these generals gathered at Kiyomasa's mansion in Osaka Castle, and from there they moved into Mitsunari's mansion. However, Mitsunari learned of this through a report from a servant of Toyotomi Hideyori named Jiemon Kuwajima, and fled to Satake Yoshinobu's mansion together with Shima Sakon and others to hide.[5] When the seven generals found out that Mitsunari was not in the mansion, they searched the mansions of various feudal lords in Osaka Castle, and Kato's army also approached the Satake residence. Therefore, Mitsunari and his party escaped from the Satake residence and barricaded themselves at Fushimi Castle.[6] The next day, the seven generals surrounded Fushimi Castle with their soldiers as they knew Mitsunari was hiding there. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was in charge of political affairs in Fushimi Castle trying to arbitrate the situation. The seven generals requested Ieyasu to hand over Mitsunari, which refused by Ieyasu. Ieyasu then negotiated the promised to let Mitsunari retire and to review the assessment of the Battle of Ulsan Castle in Korea which became the major source of this incident, and had his second son, Yūki Hideyasu, to escort Mitsunari to Sawayama Castle.[7] Historians viewed this incident were not just simply personal problems between those seven generals against Mitsunari, as it was viewed as an extention of the political rivalries on greater scope between Tokugawa faction and anti-Tokugawa faction which led by Mitsunari, since by this incident, the seven generals including Nagamasa would support Ieyasu later during the conflict of Sekigahara between Eastern army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu and Western army led by Ishida Mitsunari.[5][8]
Battle of Sekigahara[edit]
In July 1600, Ishida Mitsunari had attempted to gain some leverage over those leaning towards Ieyasu by taking as hostages all those whose families were in Osaka Castle, this happened to include Tadaoki's wife, who was by now a Christian, baptized "Gracia". To avoid capture, Hosokawa Gracia ordered a servant to kill her and set fire to their quarters. While there is little reason to believe that Tadaoki was emotionally scarred by the incident, it was considered an appalling act of trickery, and served to drive Tadaoki into Ieyasu's side.
On October 20, 1600 at the Battle of Sekigahara, Tadaoki commanded 5,000 men in the Tokugawa vanguard and clashed with the forces of Shima Sakon. Afterwards, He was awarded a fief in Buzen (Kokura, 370,000 koku) and went on to serve at the Siege of Osaka (1614–1615).
Family[edit]
- Father: Hosokawa Fujitaka
- Mother: Numata Jako (1544–1618)
- Wife: Hosokawa Gracia
- Concubines:
- Daughter of Kori Muneyasu
- Daughter of Akechi Mitsutada
- Daughter of Kiyota Mamoru
- Daughter of Masashi Shimamoto
- Children:
- Hosokawa Tadataka (1580–1646) by Hosokawa Gracia
- Hosokawa Okiaki (1583–1615) by Hosokawa Gracia
- Hosokawa Tadatoshi by Hosokawa Gracia
- Hosokawa Okitaka
- Hosokawa Tatsutaka by daughter of Kiyota Mamoru
- Matsui Yoriyuki
- Ocho married Maeno Kagesada by Hosokawa Gracia
- Otara married Inaba Kazumichi by Hosokawa Gracia
- Koho married Matsui Okinaga
- Oman married Karasuma Mitsukata
Retainers[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 細川忠興 at Nihon jinmei daijiten; retrieved 2013-5-29.
- ^ Walker, Robin Noel. (2002). "Nagaoka+Tadaoki" in Shoko-Ken: A Late Medieval Daime Sukiya Style Japanese Tea-House, p. 32.
- ^ Walker, Robin Noel. (2002). "Nagaoka+Tadaoki" in Shoko-Ken: A Late Medieval Daime Sukiya Style Japanese Tea-House, p. 32.
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hosokawa Tadaoki" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 359.
- ^ a b c Mizuno Goki (2013). "前田利家の死と石田三成襲撃事件" [Death of Toshiie Maeda and attack on Mitsunari Ishida]. 政治経済史学 (in Japanese) (557号).
- ^ Kasaya Kazuhiko (2000). "豊臣七将の石田三成襲撃事件―歴史認識形成のメカニズムとその陥穽―" [Seven Toyotomi Generals' Attack on Ishida Mitsunari - Mechanism of formation of historical perception and its downfall]. 日本研究 (in Japanese) (22集).
- ^ Kasaya Kazuhiko (2000). "徳川家康の人情と決断―三成"隠匿"の顚末とその意義―" [Tokugawa Ieyasu's humanity and decisions - The story of Mitsunari's "concealment" and its significance]. 大日光 (70号).
- ^ Mizuno Goki (2016). "石田三成襲撃事件の真相とは". In Watanabe Daimon (ed.). 戦国史の俗説を覆す [What is the truth behind the Ishida Mitsunari attack?] (in Japanese). 柏書房.
External links[edit]
- Sengoku Biographical Dictionary Archived 2008-09-25 at the Wayback Machine Hosokawa Tadaoki
Further reading[edit]
- Sansom, George "A History of Japan", 1334–1615 Stanford 1961
- Berry, Mary Elizabeth "Hideyoshi" 1982
- Charles Ralph Boxer, "Hosokawa Tadaoki and the Jesuits, 1587–1645" in Portuguese Merchants and Missionaries in Feudal Japan, 1543–1640, by Variorum Reprints (1986)
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