Nobukki Anayama

Japanese: 穴山信君 - あなやま・のぶきみ

Year of death: June 2, 1582 (June 21, 1582)
Year of birth: Tenbun 10 (1541)
A military commander in the Sengoku period. His childhood name was Katsuchiyo, and he grew up to be Hikorokuro. He served as Saemon-no-dayu, Genba-no-kami, and Mutsu-no-kami. After shaving his head, he took the name Baisetsusai Fuhaku. He was a member of the Takeda clan of Kai. His father was Nobutomo, and his mother was Takeda Shingen's older sister. His wife, Kenshoin, was Shingen's daughter. He was based in Shimoyama, Koma-gun, Kai Province (Minobu Town, Yamanashi Prefecture), and ruled over the Kawachi region (the Fuji River basin, present-day Minamikoma-gun and Nishiyatsushiro-gun). He fought in various places following Shingen and Katsuyori and his son, and also participated in the management of their territories. As his main territory, the Kawachi region, bordered Suruga Province, and he was related by marriage to the Imagawa clan (Imagawa Yoshimoto's wife was the sister of Nobutsugu's mother), he bore a heavy responsibility, especially in policies toward Suruga. When Suruga became the domain of the Takeda clan, in 1575 he was put in charge of the Ihara district as the lord of Ejiri Castle (Shimizu City) and was also involved in diplomacy with the Tokugawa clan. When the Oda clan invaded Kai in 1577, he was one of the first to visit Oda Nobunaga through Tokugawa Ieyasu, and after the Takeda clan was destroyed he was granted control of his main domain, the Kai Kawachi region. In May of the same year he had another audience with Nobunaga in Azuchi together with Ieyasu. He received news of the Honnoji Incident in Sakai, Izumi Province, and was killed in an uprising in Ujitawara, Yamashiro Province, on his way home. He had his own organization of vassals, including magistrates and deputies, and had strong control over the Kawachi region, developing the forests and gold mines and conducting land surveys. Along with the Oyamada clan's Tsuru district, the penetration of power into this region was a major challenge for the Takeda clan, who aimed to unify their domain. Nobutsuna's son, Katsuchiyo, succeeded him, but he died at the age of 16 in the 15th year of the same year, and the Anayama family line came to an end.

(Toru Horiuchi)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：天正10.6.2(1582.6.21)
生年：天文10(1541)
戦国時代の武将。幼名は勝千代,長じて彦六郎。左衛門大夫,玄蕃頭,陸奥守。剃髪して梅雪斎不白と号した。甲斐武田氏の一族。父は信友。母は武田信玄の姉。妻の見性院は信玄の娘。甲斐国巨摩郡下山(山梨県身延町)を拠点に河内地方(富士川流域,現在の南巨摩郡,西八代郡)を領した。信玄・勝頼父子に従って各地を転戦し,その領国経営にも参画した。本領河内地方が駿河国に接していたことや,今川家と姻戚関係にあった(今川義元の妻は信君の母の姉妹)ことから,特に対駿河政策には重責を果たす。駿河が武田氏の領国となると,天正3(1575)年江尻城(清水市)の城主として庵原郡の支配を任され,徳川氏との外交にも当たっている。同10年の織田氏の甲斐侵攻に際しては,いち早く徳川家康を通じて織田信長に下り拝謁,武田氏滅亡後は本領甲斐河内地方を安堵された。同年5月家康と共に安土で信長に再度拝謁。和泉国堺で本能寺の変の報に接し帰国の途上,山城国宇治田原で一揆のために殺された。奉行,代官など独自の家臣組織を有し,山林や金山の開発,検地を行うなど河内地方に強い支配権を有した。小山田氏の都留郡と並んで,この地域への権力の浸透は,領国の一統支配を目指す武田氏にとって大きな課題となった。なお信君の跡は子の勝千代が継いだが同15年16歳で死去し,穴山家は断絶した。<参考文献>『清水市史資料中世』

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