Imagawa Norimasa

Japanese: 今川範政 - いまがわ・のりまさ

Year of death: May 27, 1433 (June 14, 1433)
Year of birth: Jōji 3/Shohei 19 (1364)
A military commander in the Muromachi period. Son of Yasunori. Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Sukesanobu no Suke. In 1409, he inherited the family headship. He became the Shugo of Suruga. In the 23rd year of the same year, during the Uesugi Zenshu Rebellion, he supported the Kamakura kubo Ashikaga Mochiuji by order of the Muromachi shogunate. In September 1432, he entertained Shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori on his tour of Mount Fuji (Ranfuji-ki). The previous year, he had applied to the shogunate for his youngest son Chiyoakimaru (whose mother was a member of the Ogigayatsu Uesugi clan) to inherit the family headship, but Yoshinori did not approve due to his policy towards the Kanto region, and the issue became more complicated. He died amidst the unfolding struggle over the family headship. He was also famous as a poet. <Reference> Mansai Jungo Nikki

(Hasegawa Hiromichi)

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Japanese:

没年：永享5.5.27(1433.6.14)
生年：貞治3/正平19(1364)
室町時代の武将。泰範の子。民部大輔,上総介。応永16(1409)年,家督を継承。駿河守護となる。同23年の上杉禅秀の乱では,室町幕府の命により鎌倉公方足利持氏を支援。永享4(1432)年9月,将軍足利義教の富士遊覧に際してはこれを接待する(『覧富士記』)。この前年より,幕府に対し末子千代秋丸(母は扇谷上杉氏)への家督継承を申請していたが,義教は対関東政策上これを認めず問題は複雑化した。家督を巡る争乱が繰り広げられるなかで死去。歌人としても著名であった。<参考文献>『満済准后日記』

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