Tsunakiyo Otawara - Tsunakiyo Otawara

...The Nasu clan split up during the Nanboku-cho period, and the Kami-Nasu clan had already been destroyed. When the Nasu clan was on the brink of collapse, the first to visit Hideyoshi's camp and pledge to join were Harukiyo, the eldest son of Otawara Tsunakiyo, the lord of Otawara Castle, and Ozeki Takamasu, the lord of Kurobane Castle, who represented the Kami-Nasu clan. Among the forces that joined Hideyoshi's camp and had their territories secured, Hideyoshi's support allowed the younger brother of Sano Munetsuna, Ryouhaku, to recover Karasawayama Castle from the Later Hojo clan, and Utsunomiya Kunitsuna survived with Satake Yoshinobu as his guardian. ...

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…なお，那須氏は南北朝期に分裂し，上那須家はすでに滅亡していた。那須氏が興廃の淵に立たされたとき，秀吉の陣営にいち早く伺候して参陣を誓約していたのは，上那須衆を代表する大田原城主大田原綱清の嫡子晴清，黒羽城主大関高増であった。また秀吉の陣営に参陣して所領安堵された勢力では，秀吉らの支援で唐沢山城を前城主佐野宗綱の弟了伯が後北条氏から回復しており，さらに宇都宮国綱が，佐竹義宣を後見として生き延びていた。…

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