Korenobu Ouchi

Japanese: 大内惟信 - おおうち・これのぶ

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. A powerful vassal in the early Kamakura period. Son of Koreyoshi. He was known as the Chief of the Sword and the Suruga Daifu Judge. He was often in Kyoto with his father Koreyoshi, and was ordered by the retired Emperor Gotoba to suppress the strong appeals from the Nanto and Hokuriku regions. When his father died around 1219, Korenobu took over as the shugo of Ise, Iga, Mino, Echizen, Tamba, and Settsu. Korenobu's mother was the aunt of the brothers Fujiwara Hideyasu and Hideyoshi, who were close vassals of the retired Emperor Gotoba. This kinship helped Korenobu to develop a close relationship with the retired Emperor, and during the Jokyu War (1221), he sided with the capital. He confronted the Kamakura Shogunate army at Oi-watashi on the Tosando road, but was defeated, which caused the entire capital army to retreat. After the rebellion, he became a monk and lived in hiding on Mount Hiei, but in 1230 he was captured and exiled to the western part of Japan.

(Kazuto Hongo)

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Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
鎌倉前期の有力御家人。惟義の子。帯刀長,駿河大夫判官などと称した。父惟義と共に在京することが多く,後鳥羽上皇の命を受けて南都北嶺の強訴の鎮圧に当たった。承久1(1219)年ごろに父が死去すると,その譲りをうけて伊勢,伊賀,美濃,越前,丹波,摂津などの守護職を兼ねたらしい。惟信の母は後鳥羽上皇の近臣藤原秀康・秀能兄弟の叔母に当たる。この姻戚関係も一助となって上皇との関係は緊密になり,承久の乱(1221)に際しては京方についた。東山道の大井渡に鎌倉幕府軍を迎えうつが敗北し,京方軍全体が退却する因をなした。乱後は出家して叡山に隠れ住んでいたが,寛喜2(1230)年になって捕らえられ,西国に流されたという。

(本郷和人)

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