Fujiyori Omori - From Omori Fuji

Japanese: 大森藤頼 - おおもり・ふじより

Year of death: Bunki 3.11.2? (1503.11.20)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. A military commander in the Muromachi and Sengoku periods. The last lord of Odawara Castle of the Omori clan. Shikibu Shoyu, Shinano no Kami. The second son of Ujiyori, who is famous for admonishing his lord, Ogigayatsu Uesugi Sadamasa, for the assassination of Ota Dokan. When his father Ujiyori died in August 1494, his older brother Saneyori had already died, so he inherited the family headship and became lord of Odawara Castle, but in September of the following year, the castle was taken by Hojo Soun. Regarding this incident, the Soshu Heiranki and other sources report that Soun deliberately approached Fujiyori and eventually launched a surprise attack on him under the pretext of deer hunting, but this is probably not true. The change in the lord of Odawara Castle is thought to have been largely related to the changes in the situation surrounding the Omori clan, such as the death of Sadamasa, when Koga kubō Ashikaga Shigeuji sided with Yamanouchi Uesugi Akisada. It is also commonly said that Fujiyori, whose castle was taken, fled to Sanada Castle (Hiratsuka City), but this was a stronghold of the Ueda clan, and this also seems unlikely to be true. In July of the same year, Akisada invaded the western part of Sagami, attacking the bases of Soun and the Ogigayatsu Uesugi clan, but according to a letter from Akisada (owned by Utsue) conveying the situation to Nagao Yoshikage, the deputy governor of Echigo, Fujiyori's residence was located further west than Sanada Castle. It is said that Fujiyori then fled to Kai, or that he sought refuge with the Miura clan and fled to Arai Castle, where he died. There is also a theory that he died in 1498 (Meiō 7). Could it be that he was a military commander who was unable to adapt to changing circumstances and destroyed his clan? <References> "Odawara City Historical Materials," History Edition

(Sawaki Eiichi)

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没年：文亀3.11.2?(1503.11.20)
生年：生年不詳
室町・戦国時代の武将。大森氏最後の小田原城主。式部少輔,信濃守。太田道灌の謀殺などにつき主君扇谷上杉定正を諫めたことで名高い氏頼の次男。父氏頼が明応3(1494)年8月に死去したとき兄実頼はすでに死亡していたため,家督を継いで小田原城主となるが,翌4年9月,北条早雲により城を奪われた。この事件について『相州兵乱記』などは,早雲が藤頼に故意に近づき,ついには鹿狩りを口実として急襲したように伝えているが事実ではなかろう。この小田原城主の交代には,定正の没後,古河公方足利成氏が山内上杉顕定側に立ったことなど,大森氏を取り巻く情勢の変化が大きく関係していたものとみられる。また城を奪われた藤頼は真田城(平塚市)に逃れたと一般にはいわれているが,そこは上田氏の要害であり,これも事実とは思えない。同5年7月,顕定は相模の西部に攻め入り,早雲および扇谷上杉方の拠点を襲撃するが,その状況を越後守護代長尾能景に伝えた顕定書状(宇津江氏所蔵)の書きぶりでは,藤頼の居所は真田城よりも西方に位置している。その後,藤頼は甲斐に走ったとも,三浦氏を頼って新井城に逃れそこで死んだともいう。明応7(1498)年死亡説もある。情勢の変化に対応できず,家を滅ぼした武将といえようか。<参考文献>『小田原市史料』歴史編

(佐脇栄智)

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