Ogata Koreyoshi - Ogata Koreyoshi

Japanese: 緒方惟栄 - おがた・これよし

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. A samurai from Bungo Province (Oita Prefecture) in the late Heian period. Also written as Koreno, Koreyoshi, or Ino. Saburo. His real surname was Ogami. He was a vassal of Ogata Manor under the Usa Hachiman Shrine and a retainer of Taira Shigemori, but was persuaded by Fujiwara Yorisuke, the feudal lord of Bungo Province, to side with the anti-Taira clan, and in August 1183 (Juei 2), he and his clan attacked the Taira clan, who had retreated from Kyoto to Dazaifu, and drove them back to the Bungo region. Later, in July 1184 (Genryaku 1), he broke into Usa Shrine to attack the chief priest of Usa Shrine, who had sided with the Taira clan. This incident became a major issue in Kyoto as it defiled the imperial shrine. In the autumn of that year, Minamoto Noriyori's army headed to Kyushu to pursue the Taira clan. In February of the following year, Ogata Korehide and his family procured a ship to cross the sea, and made a great achievement, but received an official order of exile due to the previous incident of the arson attack on Usa Shrine. Later, Yoshitsune's plan to go to Kyushu failed, and he was captured in Settsu and exiled to Numata Manor in Kozuke (Gunma Prefecture). <References> Watanabe Sumio, "Genpei no Yuu/Ogata Saburo Korehide" by Iinuma Kenji According to "Otama", Volume 8 of "Tale of the Heike", the ancestor of the Ogata clan was a boy born to a girl from a mountain village in Bungo and a snake god from Ubagake in Hyuga (Miyazaki Prefecture) who frequented the place, and was called "Tei Daita" because he had many chapped hands. Korehide was the fifth generation grandson, and in the "Genpei Seisuiki" it is said that his body had the shape and scales of a snake's tail. The legend of the Ogata clan's founder is the same type of legend as the legend of Mt. Miwa (the legend of the great god) in the Kojiki, and it is likely that this story was used to tell the secret of Koreyoshi's strength. <References> Shogo Watanabe, "The Story of the Snake's Bride" (Traditional Literature Studies, No. 10)

(Kazuhiko Komatsu)

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生年：生没年不詳
平安末期の豊後国(大分県)の武士。惟能,惟義,伊能とも書く。三郎。本姓は大神氏。宇佐八幡宮領緒方荘の荘司で,平重盛の家人であったが,豊後国知行国主藤原頼輔の説得で反平家方に付き,寿永2(1183)年8月に京から太宰府に落ちた平家を一族で攻撃し,豊前方面に追い落とした。その後,元暦1(1184)年7月には平家方に付いた宇佐宮大宮司を攻撃するため,宇佐宮に乱入している。この事件は朝廷の宗廟を汚したということで,京都でも大問題となった。その年の秋,源範頼の軍は平家追討のため九州に向かう。翌年2月に緒方惟栄とその一族が渡海に際し船を調達し,大功をたてるが,先の宇佐宮焼き打ち事件のために配流の官符を受ける。その後,義経の九州下向計画に失敗し,摂津で捕らえられ,上野(群馬県)沼田荘に配流された。<参考文献>渡辺澄夫『源平の雄/緒方三郎惟栄』飯沼賢司『平家物語』巻8「緒環」によれば,緒方氏の先祖は豊後山里の娘とそこに通っていた日向(宮崎県)の姥岳の蛇神の間に生まれた男子で,あかぎれが多いので「胝大太」と呼ばれたとある。惟栄はその5代目の孫で,『源平盛衰記』には身体に蛇の尾の形と鱗があるとされている。緒方氏の始祖伝承は,『古事記』にある三輪山伝説(大神伝説)と同型の伝承であり,それが惟栄の強さの秘密を語る物語として利用されたものであろう。<参考文献>渡辺昭吾「蛇婿入譚の周辺」(『伝承文学研究』10号)

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