Guo Zi-xing; Kuo Tzǔ-hsing

Japanese: 郭子興 - かくしこう（英語表記）Guo Zi-xing; Kuo Tzǔ-hsing

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[Died] 1355
A general of the Red Turban army in the late Yuan dynasty. Born in Dingyuan (Anhui province). His father, Guo Gong, was a fortune teller who had migrated from Caozhou (Shandong), and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy man but blind. Zixing was their second son. He was a bossy man, and regularly spent his own money to make friends with visiting warriors. When the Red Turban army rose up in revolt at the end of the Yuan dynasty, Zixing responded by gathering several thousand warriors and raising an army in 1352, occupying Haozhou (Anhui) and defeating the Yuan army, earning himself the title of marshal. Zhu Yuanzhang (Emperor Hongwu of the Ming dynasty), the first emperor of the Ming dynasty, distinguished himself as one of his subordinates, and took Zixing's adopted daughter (Ma Gongnu) as his wife. Zixing died of an illness in the camp of Zhangzhou (Anhui), and was given the title of King of Chuyang by the first emperor.

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Japanese:

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[没]至正15(1355)
中国，元末の紅巾軍の一部将。定遠 (安徽省) の人。父郭公は曹州 (山東) より移住した占い師，母は富人の娘であったが盲人，子興はその次男。親分肌で，日頃から私財を投じて賓客壮士と交わりを結んでいた。元末，紅巾軍が蜂起すると，至正 12 (1352) 年これに呼応して，壮士数千人を集めて起兵し，濠州 (安徽) を占拠して元軍を退け，元帥と称した。明の太祖朱元璋 (→洪武帝 ) は彼の部下として頭角を現し，その養女 (馬公女) を妻とした。子興は璋州 (安徽) の陣中で病没し，太祖から滁陽王を贈られた。

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