Takanori Kojima

Japanese: 児島高徳 - こじま・たかのり

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. Military commander during the Northern and Southern Courts period. Commonly known as Bingo Saburo. Son of Bingo no Kami Norinaga. Resident of Oku County, Bizen Province (Okayama Prefecture). Sympathized with Emperor Go-Daigo's second movement to overthrow the shogunate. In August 1331, when the emperor raised an army in Kasagi, he responded by starting an uprising in Bizen. In March of the following year, when the emperor was exiled to Oki, he stationed troops at Funasakayama on the border between Harima and Bizen, and at Sugizaka on the border between Harima and Mimasaka, in an attempt to recapture the emperor, but was unsuccessful. On the night the emperor and his entourage parked their carriage at Mimasaka-insho, he sneaked in by slipping past the guards and carving a cherry tree in the garden of the lodgings, writing "Do not let the heavens bend in vain, and you will not be in a hurry to get out of your misery" to encourage the emperor. In the intercalary second month of the third year of the Genko era (1343), when the emperor, who had escaped from Oki, was recruiting soldiers at Funakamiyama in Hoki, he rushed to join him with his father, Norinaga, and joined the forces of Chigusa Tadaaki, who entered Kyoto and participated in the attack on Rokuhara. During the Kenmu Restoration, he returned to Bizen to prepare his military forces, and even after the collapse of the Kenmu government, he continued to belong to the Southern Army, fighting against the Ashikaga forces in Bizen, Harima, Echizen, Iyo, and other places with his relatives, the Imaki and Otomi clans. In the fourth year of the Koei era (1343), he conspired with Ogino Tomotada of Tanba to raise an army, but his secret plan was discovered beforehand, and he was pursued by the Bizen guardian army, and fled to Kyoto by sea. In April of the following year, his hideout in Gojo-bomon Mibu was attacked, and he moved to Shinano, shaved his head, and took the name Shizumi, but his whereabouts after that are unknown. He has also been likened to Kojima Hoshi, the author of "Taiheiki." <References> Yoshinari Tanaka “History of the Nanbokucho Period”

(Kazuhiko Sato)

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Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
南北朝時代の武将。通称備後三郎。備後守範長の子。備前国(岡山県)邑久郡の住人。後醍醐天皇の第2次討幕運動に共鳴。元徳3/元弘1(1331)年8月,天皇が笠置で挙兵するや,これに応じて備前において蜂起した。翌年3月,天皇が隠岐に配流される際,播磨,備前の国境舟坂山,播磨,美作の国境杉坂などに兵を配備して,天皇の奪還を企てたが不成功に終わった。天皇一行が美作院荘に車駕を留めた夜,警備の幕兵の目をかすめて潜入し,宿所の庭にあった桜木を削って「天勾踐ヲ空シウスルコトナカレ,時ニ范蠡ナキニシモアラズ」と書き付けて天皇を激励したという。正慶2/元弘3年閏2月,隠岐を脱出した天皇が伯耆船上山に兵を募ると父範長と馳せ参じ,千種忠顕の軍勢に属して入京,六波羅攻撃に加わった。建武新政の間,備前に帰って軍備を整え,建武政権崩壊後も一貫して南軍に属し,一族今木氏,大富氏らと共に,備前,播磨,越前,伊予などで足利軍と戦った。康永2/興国4(1343)年丹波の荻野朝忠と共謀して挙兵しようとしたが,事前に密計が露見し,備前の守護軍に追われ,海路京都に逃れた。翌年4月,五条坊門壬生の隠れ家を襲撃され,信濃に移り剃髪して志純と号したというが,以後の消息は不明である。『太平記』の作者小島法師に擬されたこともある。<参考文献>田中義成『南北朝時代史』

(佐藤和彦)

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