Abe Sadato - Abe Sadato

Japanese: 安倍貞任 - あべのさだとう

[Born] Kannin 3 (1019)
[Died] September 17, 1062. Mutsu, Kuraigawa. A military commander in the mid-Heian period. Son of Yoritoki. Commonly known as Kuraigawa Jiro. In 1051, together with his father, he rebelled against the Imperial Court, defeated the army of Mutsu no Kami Fujiwara Nobutoshi, and submitted to Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, who then took up the post. However, in 1056, Sadato was suspected of attacking the son of the provincial governor at night, and the battle between Yoriyoshi and the Abe clan resumed (→ Zenkunen no Eki). The Abe clan collectively ruled the clan, and Yoritoki's sons divided and ruled the six inner counties, while Sadato was based at Kuraigawa no Ki in Iwate County. In 1057, his father Yoritoki was killed in battle, but the Abe clan, firmly united under Sadato, defeated Yoriyoshi's army at Kawasaki no Ki. For several years afterwards, he also extended his influence in Uchiguni south of Kinugawa River, but in 1562, when Yoriyoshi succeeded in forming an alliance with the brothers Kiyohara Mitsuyori and Takenori, who were prisoners of war in Dewa, Sadato lost the Kinugawa and Chokai forts to the allied forces, and was finally defeated and killed at his base, the Kuriyagawa fort, with his head on display at the West Prison Gate in Kyoto. He was said to have had a striking appearance, with a height of over 6 feet (180 cm) and a waist circumference of 7 feet 4 inches (222 cm). In the Battle of Kinugawa River, when Minamoto no Yoshiie began to sing, "The hem of my robe has come undone," Sadato immediately replied, "The pain of my old age and the messy threads," and Yoshiie was so touched that he removed his arrows and withdrew. This is a famous legend.

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Japanese:

[生]寛仁3(1019)
[没]康平5(1062).9.17. 陸奥，厨川
平安時代中期の武将。頼時の子。通称厨川二郎。永承6 (1051) 年，父とともに朝廷に反抗，陸奥守藤原登任の軍を破り，次いで着任した源頼義に帰順したが，天喜4 (56) 年，貞任が権守の子弟を夜襲したという嫌疑をかけられたことから頼義と安倍一族の戦いが再開された (→前九年の役 ) 。安倍氏は集団的な同族支配を行い，奥6郡では頼時の諸子が分割支配し，貞任は岩手郡厨川柵 (くりやがわのき) に拠った。天喜5 (57) 年，父頼時は戦死したが，貞任のもとに固く結束した安倍一族は，河崎柵に頼義の軍勢を破った。その後数年間，衣川以南の内郡にも勢力を張ったが，康平5 (62) 年，頼義が出羽俘囚 (ふしゅう) の長清原光頼，武則兄弟との同盟に成功するや，貞任はこの連合軍に衣川，鳥海両柵を奪われ，ついに本拠厨川柵に敗死，その首は京都西獄門にさらされた。容貌魁偉，身長6尺 (180cm) 余，腰囲7尺4寸 (222cm) と伝えられる。衣川の戦いで，源義家が「衣のたてはほころびにけり」と歌いかけたとき，貞任が即座に「年をへし糸のみだれのくるしさに」と答えたので，義家は感心して矢をはずして引揚げた，という説話は有名。

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