Okanoue Keino - Up the mountain, up the hill

Japanese: 岡上景能 - おかのぼり・かげよし

Year of death: 4th December 3rd, 1688 (1st January 5th, 1688)
Year of birth: 1627
He was a magistrate of the Edo Shogunate in the early modern period, with a stipend of 150 koku. He was the adopted son of the magistrate Okanoue Kagechika. He was commonly known as Jirobei. His grandfather, a vassal of the Hojo clan, served Tokugawa Ieyasu and was appointed as a magistrate, and successive generations of his family served as magistrates. His grandfather (sometimes considered to be his father, as two successive generations shared the same name as Jinemon Kagechika) diverted and developed the Okanoue irrigation canal in Okazaki Shinden, Agatsuma County, Kozuke Province. Kageyoshi controlled the Shogunate territories of Musashi, Kazusa, Kozuke, Shimotsuke, Echigo, and other areas, as well as the Ashio Copper Mine. He developed the Copper Mine Highway to transport copper, established a copper wholesaler in Ohara Honmachi, Nitta County, Kozuke Province (Yabutsuka Honmachi, Nitta County, Gunma Prefecture), and dug the Okanobe irrigation canal by drawing water from the Watarase River to provide water for the lodgings and to secure support for the village's people and horses, and developed Kasakakeno in the same county. However, in 1687, he was sentenced to exile on Hachijo Island by the shogunate, and later ordered to die, after which he committed seppuku. The reasons given were that the ruling on a village border dispute in Kazusa Province had been disrespectful, and that there had been irregularities in the development of the irrigation water supply, but the truth remains unknown. The Okanobori irrigation water supply was abolished, and rebuilt at the end of the Edo period. His grave is at Kokuzui-ji Temple in Kasakake-cho, Nitta County, and Okanobori Shrine is located in Yabutsukamoto-cho, the same county. <References> Hagiwara Susumu, Ushigi Yukio, "Major Okanoue Kageyoshi"

(Yukio Ushigi)

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

Japanese:

没年：貞享4.12.3(1688.1.5)
生年：寛永4頃(1627)
近世前期の江戸幕府代官,知行高150石。代官岡上景親の養子。通称は次郎兵衛。北条氏の家臣であった祖父が徳川家康に仕えて代官に取り立てられ,以降代々代官を務める。祖父(2代続けて甚右衛門景親と同名であるため,父とされることもある)は上野国吾妻郡岡崎新田に岡上用水を引き開発した。景能は武蔵,上総,上野,下野,越後などの幕府領および足尾銅山を支配した。銅を搬出する銅山街道を整備し,上野国新田郡大原本町(群馬県新田郡藪塚本町)に銅問屋を新設し,宿用水と助郷人馬の確保のために渡良瀬川から引水して岡登用水を開削し,同郡笠懸野を開発した。しかし,貞享4(1687)年,幕府から八丈島流罪を言い渡され,その後さらに死罪を命ぜられ切腹。上総国での村境論の裁定が不届きであり,また用水開発に不正があったという理由であるが,真相は不明である。岡登用水は廃絶され,幕末に再興された。墓所は新田郡笠懸町の国瑞寺にあり,岡登霊神社が同郡藪塚本町にある。<参考文献>萩原進,丑木幸男『代官岡上景能』

(丑木幸男)

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