Ashikaga Tadafuyu

Japanese: 足利直冬 - あしかがただふゆ

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[Died] Motonaka 4 = Kakei 1 (1387).7.2.
A military commander during the Nanboku-cho period. Son of Takauji and adopted by his uncle Tadayoshi. As he was the son of a concubine, he entered Tosho-ji Temple at a young age and became a kakshiki (a priest), but in 1338 he sought the help of Tadayoshi and took the name Tadafuyu. When war broke out in Kii, Takauji appointed Tadafuyu to the position of Sahyoe-no-suke and had him defeat the warlord as a general. After the war, he was made a Junior Fourth Rank and Miyauchi Daifu. In April 1349, he was appointed as Nagato Tandai in Tomo in Bingo. Around this time, Tadayoshi came into conflict with Takauji's steward Takanobu Moronao, and eventually there was a rift between Tadayoshi and Takauji, so Tadafuyu, a member of Tadayoshi's party, was attacked by Takauji's army in September and fled to Higo in Kyushu. However, with the cooperation of the Shoni and Otomo clans in northern Kyushu, Takauji became a powerful force, and in June 1850 (Shohei 5, Kan'o 1, (50)), he sent a punitive force, and in October, Takauji himself went to Kyoto to pursue Tadafuyu. However, Tadayoshi raised an army in the meantime, so Takauji quickly sent his troops back. The following year, a peace treaty was concluded between Takauji and Tadayoshi, and Tadayoshi became the Chinzei Tandai (Kyushu Tandai), from which point he expanded his influence in northern Kyushu and the western part of the Chugoku region. However, in September, there was again discord, and in February 1852 (Shohei 7, Bunwa 1, (52)), Tadayoshi was poisoned to death by Takauji, and Tadafuyu was chased out of Kyushu by Takauji's supporter, Isshiki Noriuji (Doyu), and fled to Nagato, where he submitted to the Southern Court in November. The Southern Court appointed Tadafuyu as the general pursuer. In May of the 9th year of the Shohei Era (Bunwa 3, 54), he marched east together with Yamana Tokiuji, a powerful man in Sanin, and approached Kyoto. Takauji fled to Omi accompanied by Emperor Go-Kogon, and Tadafuyu was able to enter Kyoto without difficulty the following New Year. However, Takauji and his son Yoshiakira attacked Tadafuyu from both the east and west, and about two months later he was defeated and fled to the west. In the 17th year of the Shohei Era (Seiji 1, 62), when the Ouchi clans of Suo and the Yamana clans of Sanin submitted to Takauji, Tadafuyu fled from Bingo to Iwami, losing all his power.

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Japanese:

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[没]元中4＝嘉慶1(1387).7.2.
南北朝時代の武将。尊氏の子。叔父直義の養子。妾腹であったため，幼くして東勝寺に入り，喝食 (かっしき) となったが，延元3＝暦応1 (1338) 年直義を頼って直冬と名のった。紀伊に兵乱が起きたとき，尊氏は初めて直冬を登用し左兵衛佐に任じ，将としてこれを討たせた。乱後，従四位下，宮内大輔。正平4＝貞和5 (49) 年4月，長門探題として備後の鞆に赴任。この頃直義は尊氏の執事高師直と対立し，ついに直義と尊氏の間も不和となったため，直義党の直冬も9月尊氏軍に攻められて九州の肥後に逃亡。しかし北九州の少弐，大友両氏の協力を得て大勢力となり，尊氏は正平5＝観応1 (50) 年6月，追討軍を派遣，次いで 10月には尊氏自身直冬追討のため出京した。しかし，その間に直義が挙兵したので，尊氏は急ぎ兵を返した。翌年尊氏と直義との間に講和が成立，直義は鎮西探題 (→九州探題 ) となり，これより北九州と中国地方西部に勢力を張った。しかし，9月には再び不和となり，正平7＝文和1 (52) 年2月，直義は尊氏に毒殺され，直冬は尊氏党の一色範氏 (道猷) に九州を追われて長門へ逃れ，11月南朝に帰順した。南朝では直冬を総追捕使に任じた。正平9＝文和3 (54) 年5月，山陰の有力者山名時氏とともに東上，京都に迫った。尊氏は後光厳天皇を奉じて近江に走ったため，翌年正月，難なく入京した。ところが，尊氏とその子義詮に東西から挟撃された直冬は，約2ヵ月後，敗れて西走，正平 17＝貞治1 (62) 年，周防の大内，山陰の山名の2氏が尊氏に帰服するに及んで，備後から石見に逃れ，勢力をまったく失った。

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