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A famous general of the Tang Dynasty in China. He served four generations of emperors: Xuanzong, Suzong, Daizong, and Dezong. He was the son of a civil servant from Huazhou (Henan Province), but rose to prominence as a military officer. In 754, he became the Tiande military envoy in the north and the right warlord of the Shuofang military commander. In the following year, during the An Lushan Rebellion, he led the government forces in Hebei together with Hedong military commander Li Guangbi. After the fall of Chang'an, Suzong fled to Lingwu in the northwest. After his accession to the throne, he became deputy marshal under Crown Prince Guangping (later Daizong) and was in charge of overall command of the government forces. With Uighur reinforcements, he recaptured Chang'an and Luoyang in 756, and was praised for his contributions to the reconstruction of the nation.

He was later forced to resign temporarily by the eunuch Yu Chao-en, but during the reign of Emperor Daizong, he was re-elected when the combined forces of the Tubo, Uighurs, Tuyuhun, and Tanguts invaded, and the rebellion of Bo Gu Huai-en, who had conspired with them, broke out. In 765, he turned the Uighurs against the Tubo and saved the country from crisis. After Emperor Dezong ascended to the throne in 779, he was given the title of Shangfu and the highest position of Grand Marshal, Secretary of the Secretariat, and was made King of Fenyang. His son Guo Ao married Emperor Daizong's daughter, Princess Shengping, and his grandson became Emperor Xianzong's wife, and their son became Emperor Muzong.

[Hideo Kikuchi]

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中国、唐の名将。玄宗、粛宗、代宗、徳宗の4代に仕えた。華州（河南省）出身の文官の子であったが武官として立身。754年北辺の天徳軍使兼朔方節度(さくほうせつど)右兵馬使となり、翌年起こった安禄山(あんろくざん)の乱に、河東節度使李光弼(りこうひつ)とともに官軍を率いて河北を転戦、長安陥落後、西北の霊武に逃れた粛宗の即位後は、皇太子広平王（後の代宗）の下で副元帥となり官軍の総指揮にあたった。ウイグルの援軍を得て756年長安・洛陽(らくよう)を奪回、国家再建の功労者と賞せられる。

　その後宦官(かんがん)の魚朝恩らのため一時失脚させられたが、代宗朝に入り、吐蕃(とばん)、ウイグル、吐谷渾(とよくこん)、タングートなどの異民族連合軍の侵攻や、これと通謀した僕固懐恩(ぼっこかいおん)の反乱が起こり、ふたたび登用され、765年ウイグル軍を寝返らせて吐蕃を破り危機を救った。徳宗即位（779）後、尚父(しょうほ)の称号、太尉中書令の最高官を賜り、汾陽(ふんよう)王に封ぜられる。子の郭曖(かくあい)は代宗の娘昇平公主をめとり、孫は憲宗の妃となり、その子は穆宗(ぼくそう)となった。

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