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Japanese: 季瓊真蘂 - きけい・しんずい

Year of death: Bunmei 1.8.11 (September 16, 1469)
Year of birth: 1401
A Rinzai sect monk in the early Muromachi period. He was a descendant of the Kozuki clan, a branch of the Akamatsu clan in Harima Province (Hyogo Prefecture). He succeeded Shuei Sohan (Ichizan school). He was ordered by Ashikaga Yoshinori to become an assistant to the monks of Rokuon-in Temple and oversaw the Gozan Kanji temples, and in later years was called Inryoshoku (the head priest of the Inryoken temple in Shokoku-ji). However, when the Kakitsu War (1441) broke out, in which Akamatsu Mitsusuke assassinated Shogun Yoshinori, he temporarily retired from his position as he was a member of the same family. During the reign of Yoshimasa, he was restored to power in 1458 and began to wield political influence, and together with the steward of the office, Ise Sadachika, he interfered in matters such as the succession of the shugo daimyo, which is said to have been one of the causes of the Onin War (1467). He was overthrown in 1466 and fled to Omi Province (Shiga Prefecture), but Yoshimasa trusted him so much that he came to Kyoto in 1468 and returned to Shokoku-ji Temple. He lived in Uncho-in within the temple, and opened the Unzawa-ken temple and the Zenbutsu-ji temple in Shichijo Yanagihara within the temple grounds. He wrote a diary, "Kikei Nichiroku" (included in "Inryoken Nichiroku"), which is considered an important source of political history in the Muromachi period.

(Masatoshi Harada)

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

Japanese:

没年：文明1.8.11(1469.9.16)
生年：応永8(1401)
室町前期の臨済宗の僧。播磨国(兵庫県)の赤松氏一族上月氏の出身。法を叔英宗播に嗣ぐ(一山派)。足利義教の命で鹿苑院僧録の補佐となり五山官寺を統轄し,後世,蔭涼職(相国寺内蔭涼軒の軒主職)と呼ばれた。しかし赤松満祐による将軍義教暗殺の嘉吉の乱(1441)が起こり,その一族であることから一時職を退いた。義政の代になり長禄2(1458)年復権して政治力をふるい始め,政所執事伊勢貞親と共に守護大名の継嗣問題などにも容喙し,応仁の乱(1467)が起こる原因のひとつをなしたとされる。文正1(1466)年失脚して近江国(滋賀県)に逃れるが,義政の信任厚く,応仁2(1468)年上洛し,相国寺に戻った。同寺内雲頂院に住し,院内に雲沢軒,七条柳原に禅仏寺を開いた。日記として『季瓊日録』(『蔭涼軒日録』に所収)があり,室町時代の政治史の重要史料とされている。

(原田正俊)

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