Amako Haruhisa

Japanese: 尼子晴久 - あまこ・はるひさ

Year of death: December 24, 1561 (January 9, 1561)
Year of birth: Eisho 11 (1514)
A military commander in the Sengoku period. His father was Masahisa, and his mother was the daughter of Yamana Hyogo no Kami. He was originally called Akihisa, but in 1541, he was given one character of his given name by Muromachi Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu and changed his name to Haruhisa. He was a junior assistant minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and later a Shuri-no-taifu. Due to his father's early death, he succeeded his grandfather Tsunehisa around 1543. In 1546, he attacked and defeated Mori Motonari at Aki Yoshida Koriyama Castle, and in 1548, he allowed Ouchi Yoshitaka to invade, but repelled them the following year. He took this opportunity to organize his vassals and strengthen his control over his domain, striving to recover lost territory. After Yoshitaka was killed in 1557, he was appointed Shugo of eight provinces: Izumo, Oki, Inaba, Hoki, Bizen, Mimasaka, Bitchu, and Bingo the following year. However, in 1558, he destroyed his clan's members, Amago Kunihisa and Masahisa, and others from the Shingu Party, bringing about his own decline. In the third year of the Eiroku era, while fighting against the Genshu army that had invaded Iwami, he suddenly died at Tomita (Gassan) Castle. There is also a dissenting opinion that his birth year is about 15 years earlier than the common theory, and there is also a theory that his death year is in the fourth or fifth year of the Eiroku era. <References> Yonehara Masayoshi, "The Amago Clan of Izumo," Segawa Hideo, "Yoshikawa Motoharu," Takahashi Masahiro, "Various Issues in the History of the San'in Warring States Period"

(Inoue Hiroshi)

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没年：永禄3.12.24(1561.1.9)
生年：永正11(1514)
戦国時代の武将。父は政久,母は山名兵庫頭の娘。はじめ詮久,天文10(1541)年に室町将軍足利義晴より諱の1字をもらい晴久と改名。民部少輔,のち修理大夫。父の早世により,同6年ごろから祖父経久を後継。同9年,毛利元就を安芸吉田郡山城に攻めて敗れ,同11年には大内義隆の侵攻を許したが,翌年これを撃退。それを機に家臣団の編成と領国内支配体制を強化し,失地回復に努めた。同20年に義隆が滅ぶと,翌年,出雲,隠岐,因幡,伯耆,備前,美作,備中,備後8カ国の守護に補される。しかし同23年,一族の新宮党の尼子国久,誠久らを滅ぼし,自ら衰勢を招いた。永禄3年,石見に侵入した元就軍と防戦中,富田(月山)城で急死した。なお,生年を通説より約15年さかのぼらせる異見があり,没年についても永禄4年ないし5年とする説がある。<参考文献>米原正義『出雲尼子氏一族』,瀬川秀雄『吉川元春』,高橋正弘『山陰戦国史の諸問題』

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