Inatomi Sukenao - Inatomi Sukenao

Japanese: 稲富祐直 - いなどめ・すけなお

Year of death: February 6, 1611 (March 20, 1611)
Year of birth: Tenbun 21 (1552)
An artillery expert from the early Edo period. Sometimes read as "Inatomi." His given name was Ienao, Naoie, and later Sukenao. He was famous under the name Inatomi Kazumu. His father was Naohide. He was from Tango Province (Kyoto Prefecture) and initially served Isshiki Yoshisada, but later served Hosokawa Tadaoki and was highly valued. His grandfather Naotoki learned artillery from Sasaki Shosuke Jiro Yoshikuni, who was known as a master of firearms, and passed it on to Sukenao. Furthermore, Sukenao is said to have made improvements to the composition of gunpowder and firing position based on the dreams he had while retreating to Chion-ji Temple in Tango Province (Miyazu City), and founded the Inatomi school of artillery. He is known for crossing the sea as a member of Hosokawa Tadaoki's army during the Keicho War (1597), and for his active participation alongside Kato Kiyomasa in the siege of Ulsan. However, during the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, he was ordered to guard the house of Tadaoki, who had gone to attack the Uesugi clan, but he was unable to protect Tadaoki's wife Gracia, causing her to commit suicide. Ogasawara Shosai and Kawakita Iwami, who were also in charge of guarding the house, committed suicide in honor of their wives, but Sukenao fled and was pursued by Tadaoki. Sukenao was initially hidden by his gunnery disciple Ii Naomasa, and then he asked for his life through Asano Yukinaga, but was not allowed to do so. In the end, he asked for help from Tokugawa Ieyasu, who granted him permission, and he became the gunnery instructor for Ieyasu's fourth son Matsudaira Tadayoshi and ninth son Tokugawa Yoshinao. Around that time, he became a monk and took the name Ichimu. After that, he made great achievements, such as organizing the Kunitomo blacksmith group in Omi as the shogunate's gunner. He openly taught the secrets of gunnery to those who had joined the school, and left behind a handwritten instruction book that is considered to be the first gunnery book in Japan. <References> "Inatomi School Gunnery Complete Book", Tokoro Shokichi "Matchlock Gun"

(Tetsuo Owada)

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

Japanese:

没年：慶長16.2.6(1611.3.20)
生年：天文21(1552)
江戸前期の砲術家。「いなとみ」と読まれることもある。名は家直,直家,のち祐直。稲富一夢の名で有名。父は直秀。丹後国(京都府)の出身で,はじめ一色義定に仕えたが,のち細川忠興に仕え重用された。祖父に当たる直時が鉄砲名人といわれた佐々木少輔次郎義国から砲術を学び,祐直に伝授した。さらに祐直は丹後国智恩寺(宮津市)に参籠して得た夢想によって火薬の配合や発射姿勢などに工夫を加えたといい,砲術の一派稲富流を興した。慶長の役(1597)では細川忠興軍の一員として渡海し,蔚山籠城戦には加藤清正と共に活躍したことで知られる。ところが慶長5(1600)年の関ケ原の戦のとき,上杉征討に向かった忠興の留守宅警備を命ぜられながら忠興夫人ガラシアを守ることができず,自害させてしまい,同じく留守を預かった小笠原松斎,河喜多石見のふたりは夫人に殉じて自害したが,祐直はそのまま遁走し忠興から追われた。祐直はとりあえず砲術の弟子である井伊直政にかくまわれ,次いで,浅野幸長を介して助命を請うたが許されず,結局,徳川家康に助けを求めて許されることになり,家康の4男松平忠吉,9男徳川義直の砲術指南となった。そのころ,出家して一夢と号している。以後,幕府の鉄炮方として近江の国友鍛冶集団を組織するなど,功績があった。入門者に対しては開放的に極意を伝授し,わが国砲術書の最初と目される自筆の伝書をのこしている。<参考文献>『稲富流砲術全書』,所荘吉『火縄銃』

(小和田哲男)

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