Suketsune Kudo

Japanese: 工藤祐経 - くどう・すけつね

Year of death: 1193
Year of birth: Unknown. Samurai from the end of the Heian period to the early Kamakura period. Called Kudo Ichiro. His father was Suketsugu. He served Taira Shigemori and became his retainer, and was appointed as Saemon-no-jo in Kyoto. While in Kyoto, he entrusted Ito Manor in Izu Province to his uncle (some say cousin), Ito (Kawazu) Jiro Sukechika, but a dispute arose over Sukechika seizing the land. Suketsune's wife was Sukechika's daughter, and because of this conflict, she was brought back to Sukechika's house and given in marriage to Doi Enpei. Enraged by this, Suketsune took advantage of a hunting party in Izu in 1176 to attack Sukechika, killing Sukechika's legitimate son, Kawazu Sukeyasu. After Minamoto no Yoritomo raised his army, he sided with Yoritomo from an early stage, and after the establishment of the shogunate, he was well versed in music and other arts due to his experience in Kyoto, and was highly trusted by Yoritomo, playing the role of drummer at the banquet when Taira no Shigehira was taken prisoner and when Minamoto no Yoshitsune's concubine Shizue performed a dance in front of the shrine in Tsuruoka, Kamakura, in 1186. He also accompanied the army to Kyushu in pursuit of the Taira clan, and in the Battle of Oshu in 1193. He was killed in the hunting grounds of Fuji by the brothers Soga Juro Sukenari and Goro Tokimune, sons of Kawazu Sukeyasu, as the murderer of their father.

(Kenji Iinuma)

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

Japanese:

没年：建久4(1193)
生年：生年不詳
平安末・鎌倉初期の武士。工藤一郎と称す。父は祐継。平重盛の許に出仕し家人となり在京,左衛門尉に任官した。在京中に叔父(従兄弟とする説あり)伊東(河津)二郎祐親に,伊豆国伊東荘を預けていたが,祐親が押領したとして相論となった。祐経の妻は祐親の娘であり,この対立のため祐親の許に連れ戻され,土肥遠平に嫁がされた。これを怒った祐経は,安元2(1176)年伊豆での巻狩に事寄せて祐親を襲い,祐親の嫡子河津祐泰を殺害した。源頼朝の挙兵以後,早くから頼朝方に付き,幕府成立以後は,在京の経験から,楽などの道にも通じており,頼朝の信任も厚く,平重衡が囚人として鎌倉に下ったときの宴や文治2(1186)年に源義経の妾静が鎌倉鶴岡の社頭で舞をまった際に鼓の役を務めた。また,平家追討で九州へ従軍し,5年には奥州合戦にも出陣している。建久4(1193)年,河津祐泰の子の曾我十郎祐成・五郎時致兄弟によって富士の狩場で父の仇として討たれた。

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