Mochiyo Ouchi

Japanese: 大内持世 - おおうち・もちよ

Year of death: July 28, 1441 (August 14, 1441)
Year of birth: 1394
A military commander in the Muromachi period. His childhood name was Kuro. He held the rank of Shoyu (junior assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice) and Shuri-no-taifu (chief of the Shuri-no-daifu). He was the son of Yoshihiro. After Morimi's death in 1431, he traveled to Kyushu to fight against the forces of Shoni and Otomo. The following year, he won the battle for succession against Ouchi Mochimori, and inherited the position of Shugo (military governor) of Suo, Nagato, and Buzen. He led the servants and local lords of Chugoku and Kyushu in an attack on the Shoni and Otomo clans, and in August 1433, he defeated Shoni Mitsusada at Akizuki Castle in Chikuzen, and in the following year, he overthrew Otomo Mochinao at Himetake Castle in Bungo. In January of the following year, he returned to Suo. In the 11th year, he received an order from Shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori to go to Kyoto, but he did not obey, and one of his territories in Aki Province was confiscated. Taking advantage of the fact that a Korean envoy arrived in Japan in the same year, he persuaded the shogunate to pardon Yoshiyori, the surviving son of Mitsusada of the Shoni clan, who was his rival, in February of the following year, and traveled to Kyoto. In 1441, he was present at the assassination of Yoshinori, and died from the wounds he received at that time.

(Saeki Hirotsugu)

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Japanese:

没年：嘉吉1.7.28(1441.8.14)
生年：応永1(1394)
室町時代の武将。幼名九郎。官途は刑部少輔,修理大夫。義弘の子。永享3(1431)年の盛見の死後,九州に渡って少弐・大友勢と戦う。翌年,大内持盛との家督争いに勝利し,周防・長門・豊前の守護職を継承。中国,九州の奉公衆や国人を率いて少弐・大友討伐を行い,永享5(1433)年8月に筑前秋月城で少弐満貞を討ち,同8年には豊後姫岳城の大友持直を没落させた。翌9年1月,周防に帰国。11年に将軍足利義教から上洛命令を受けたが,これに従わず,安芸国の所領一所を没収された。同年に朝鮮使節が来日したことを利用し,翌12年2月に対立する少弐氏の満貞の遺子嘉頼の赦免を幕府に認めさせ,上洛した。嘉吉1(1441)年の義教暗殺の場に同席し,そのとき受けた傷がもとで死去。

(佐伯弘次)

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