Oba Kageyoshi - Oba Kageyoshi

Japanese: 大庭景義 - おおば・かげよし

Year of death: 4/4/9 (1210.5.3)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. Military commander in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. He was known as Heita, Dewa no Gonno Kami, and Kasugashima no Gonno Kami. He was also written as Kageyoshi. He was a descendant of the hereditary successor of the position of Mikuriya-shi in the Sagami Obaba Mikuriya, which was developed by Kamakura Gongoro Kagemasa. His father was Kagemune. In the Hogen Rebellion (1156), he followed his younger brother Kagechika and Minamoto no Yoshitomo, and was wounded by an arrow from Minamoto no Tametomo in the Battle of Shirakawadono. In 1180 (Jisho 4), he and his younger brother Toyoda Jiro Kagetoshi, who was based in Toyoda, Osumi County, Sagami, where their father Kagemune's grave was located, supported the uprising of Minamoto no Yoritomo, and killed his younger brother Kagechika, the general of the Heike side in Sagami, who had surrendered. He also served as the construction magistrate of the Okura Palace and Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine in Kamakura. When the imperial sanction was not granted to pursue the Fujiwara clan of Oshu, he urged Yoritomo to make a decision, citing historical events as an elder of the samurai family. He was briefly exiled from Kamakura, but was pardoned and accompanied Yoritomo to Kyoto. He died on Uesugi Island in Sagami.

(Yuyama Manabu)

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

Japanese:

没年：承元4.4.9(1210.5.3)
生年：生年不詳
平安後期・鎌倉前期の武将。平太,出羽権守,懐嶋権守。景能とも書く。鎌倉権五郎景正が開発した相模大庭御厨の代々御厨司職を世襲した子孫。父は景宗。保元の乱(1156)に弟景親と源義朝に従い,白河殿の戦いで源為朝の矢で負傷。治承4(1180)年,父景宗の墓があった相模大住郡豊田に拠る弟豊田次郎景俊と源頼朝の挙兵に応じ,降参した相模の平家方大将の弟景親を斬った。鎌倉の大蔵御所や鶴岡八幡宮の造営奉行も勤めた。奥州藤原氏の追討に勅許がえられなかったとき,武家の古老として故事を引いて,頼朝に決断をすすめた。一時,鎌倉を追放されたが,許されて頼朝の上洛に供奉。相模の懐嶋で死んだ。

(湯山学)

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