Takano Moroyasu

Japanese: 高師泰 - こうのもろやす

Year of death: 26 February 1351 (24 March 1351)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. Military commander during the Northern and Southern Courts period. Son of Moshige. Brother of Munechika. Governor of Owari and Echigo. Shugo of Echigo, Owari, Izumi, Kawachi, etc. In 1334 (Kenmu 1), he became the Fourth Magistrate of the Office of Decision-Making of Miscellaneous Lawsuits. In July of the second year, the Nakasendai Rebellion broke out in Shinano, and after Ashikaga Tadayoshi of Kamakura was defeated, he accompanied Ashikaga Takauji to Kanto. He defeated Nitta Yoshisada's army at Hakone and pursued Yoshisada to Kyoto, but was defeated by Go-Daigo's army, and traveled with Takauji to Kyushu. In May of the following year, he followed Tadayoshi and traveled east by land, killing Kusunoki Masashige and others at Minatogawa. After the establishment of the Muromachi Shogunate, he occupied a central position within the Shogunate as the head of the Samurai-dokoro. He fought in battles in various places thereafter. In 1347 (Sadakawa 3/Shohei 2), he attacked Nitta Yoshisada at Kanegasaki Castle in Echizen and took it, and fought against Kitabatake Akiie's Oshu army, who had come to Kyoto, in various parts of Totomi and Mino. In 1347 (Sadakawa 3/Shohei 2), he fought with Kusunoki Masayuki in Izumi and Kawachi, and the following year he defeated him at Shijonawate in Kawachi and attacked Yoshino. During this time, he was also involved in litigation as the head of the Hikitsuke clan. There are also stories of his tyrannical behavior. One story is that after defeating Masayuki, he burned down the shrine of Prince Shotoku in Kawachi, and that he dug up the ancestral gravesite of the Sugawara family to build a mountain villa in Higashiyama, and later killed the owner, Sugawara Arito. During the Kan'o Disturbance, he temporarily overwhelmed the Naoyoshi faction, and in 1512 (Kan'o 1/Shohei 5), he marched into the Chugoku region to attack Naoyoshi's supporters, but in February of the following year, he fought against Naoyoshi's army in Harima together with Takauji and Moronao, was defeated, wounded, and surrendered, and was killed along with Moronao and his family.

(Kiyoshi Ito)

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

Japanese:

没年：観応2/正平6.2.26(1351.3.24)
生年：生年不詳
南北朝時代の武将。師重の子。師直の兄弟。尾張守,越後守。越後,尾張,和泉,河内等の守護。建武1(1334)年雑訴決断所の四番方の奉行となる。2年7月に中先代の乱が信濃から起こり,鎌倉の足利直義が敗れると,足利尊氏に従って関東に下った。箱根で新田義貞軍を破り,義貞を追って上洛したが,後醍醐軍に敗れて,尊氏と共に九州に下向した。翌年5月には直義に従い,陸路東上して湊川で楠木正成らを討った。室町幕府成立後,侍所頭人として幕府の中枢の地位を占めた。以後各地を転戦する。建武4/延元2年には新田義貞を越前金ケ崎城に攻めてこれを落とし,上洛してきた北畠顕家の奥羽軍と遠江,美濃の各地で戦った。貞和3/正平2(1347)年楠木正行と和泉,河内で戦い,翌年河内の四条畷でこれを破り,吉野を攻めた。この間,引付頭人として訴訟にも携わった。横暴な挿話も伝えられている。正行を破った折,河内の聖徳太子廟を焼いたとか,東山に山荘を造るために菅原家の代々の墓所を掘り返し,のちに所有者の菅原在登を殺害したというような話である。観応の擾乱で一時は直義派を圧倒し,観応1/正平5年直義与党を討つため中国地方に出陣したが,翌年2月に尊氏,師直と共に直義軍と播磨で戦って敗れ,負傷して降人となり,師直や一族と共に殺害された。

(伊藤喜良)

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