Naozumi Arima

Japanese: 有馬直純 - ありま・なおずみ

Year of death: April 25, 1641 (June 3, 1641)
Year of birth: Tensho 14 (1586)
A feudal lord in the early Edo period. His father was the Christian feudal lord Arima Harunobu, and his mother was the daughter of Yamada Hyobu Suminori. He was born in Arima, Hizen Province (Nagasaki Prefecture). His childhood name was Daikichi, he was commonly known as Saemonnosuke, and his baptismal name was Miguel. In the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 (Keicho 5), he accompanied Kato Kiyomasa and attacked Konishi Yukinaga's Uto Castle. He served Tokugawa Ieyasu, and in 1612 he divorced his wife Marta (Konishi Yukinaga's niece) and remarried Ieyasu's adopted daughter Kunihime (whose real father was Honda Tadamasa), and also abandoned Christianity. In 1613, after his father Harunobu was exiled to Kaishu due to the Okamoto Daihachi incident, he inherited the Arima territory. It is said that Naozumi was estranged from his father, which was actually a blessing in disguise for the survival of the Arima family. In the same year, his fief was increased to 53,000 koku in the Hyuga Province (later Nobeoka) domain, but many of his retainers remained in Arima because of his policy of cracking down on Christians. In 1637 (Kan'ei 14), he marched to his former domain of Arima during the Shimabara Rebellion, and ironically fought against his former retainers in Hara Castle. <References> "Arima Harunobu-ki" ("Zoku Gunsho Ruiju" vol. 23, Vol. 1), "Nihon Kirishitan Sect History" by L. Pages, translated by Yoshida Kogoro

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没年：寛永18.4.25(1641.6.3)
生年：天正14(1586)
江戸初期の大名。父はキリシタン大名有馬晴信,母は山田兵部純規の娘。肥前国有馬(長崎県)生まれ。幼名大吉,通称左衛門佐,洗礼名ミゲル。慶長5(1600)年関ケ原の戦では,加藤清正に従って小西行長の宇土城を攻撃。徳川家康に仕え,同15年妻マルタ(小西行長の姪)を離縁して家康の養女国姫(実父は本多忠政)と再婚,キリスト教も棄教した。同17年父晴信が岡本大八事件によって甲州配流後,有馬領を継ぐ。直純は父と疎遠であったといわれ,逆にこれが有馬家存続に幸いした。同19年加増されて日向国県(のちの延岡)領5万3000石に移るが,キリシタン取り締まりの方針をとっていたため,多くの家臣は有馬に残った。寛永14(1637)年島原の乱では旧領有馬に出陣,皮肉にも原城中の旧臣と戦った。<参考文献>『有馬晴信記』(『続群書類従』23輯上),L.パジェス著,吉田小五郎訳『日本切支丹宗門史』

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