Masakiyo Kamata

Japanese: 鎌田正清 - かまた・まさきよ

Year of death: 11/01/11 (1160.2.11)
Year of birth: Security 4 (1123)
A samurai from the late Heian period. Probably from Totomi Province (Shizuoka Prefecture). Son of Kamata Michikiyo. A retainer of Minamoto no Yoshitomo, he was the son of a wet nurse. During the Hogen Rebellion (1156), he fought against Minamoto no Tametomo at Shirakawa Palace in Kyoto, and was instrumental in shooting Tametomo in the cheek. When Yoshitomo, who had won the rebellion, was troubled by the imperial order to behead his father Tameyoshi, Yoshitomo offered him advice and cut off Tameyoshi's head at Shichijo Suzaku. When Fujiwara no Nobuyori temporarily took control of the government during the Heiji Rebellion (1159), he was appointed Hyoe no Jo and changed his name to Masaie. After being defeated by Taira no Kiyomori, he fled to the eastern provinces with Yoshitomo, and sought refuge with his father-in-law Nagata Tadamune who lived in Owari Province, but was betrayed and killed along with Yoshitomo.

(Takahashi Hideki)

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Japanese:

没年：永暦1.1.3(1160.2.11)
生年：保安4(1123)
平安後期の武士。遠江国(静岡県)出身か。鎌田通清の子。源義朝の家人で,乳母子。保元の乱(1156)では,京の白河殿で源為朝と戦い,その頬を射るなど活躍。乱に勝利した義朝が父為義の首を討つべき勅命を受けて苦慮すると,知恵を授け,七条朱雀で為義の首をはねた。平治の乱(1159)で一時藤原信頼が政権を掌握すると,兵衛尉に任じられ政家と改名した。平清盛に敗れ義朝と共に東国へ落ち,尾張国に住む舅長田忠致を頼ったが,裏切られ,義朝と共に殺された。

(高橋秀樹)

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