Sasa Narimasa - Sasa Narimasa

Japanese: 佐々成政 - さっさ・なりまさ

Year of death: Tensho 16, leap year 5, 14 (July 7, 1588)
Year of birth: Tenbun 5 (1536)
A military commander in the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Some say he was born in Tenbun 8 (1539). He was the fifth son of Shigemune (Morimasa). He was commonly known as Yozaemon, Kuranosuke, and Mutsu no Kami. He was from Owari Province (Aichi Prefecture) and served Oda Nobunaga. He distinguished himself in battles such as the Battle of Inoue, where Nobunaga attacked his younger brother Nobuyuki, the Battle of Okehazama, and the Mino Strategy, and in 1567 he became the leader of the Kuro-Moi-shu. In 1573 (Tensho 1), he led the vanguard in the attack on Asakura Yoshikage, and in May of the same year he led the musketeers at the Battle of Nagashino. In August of the same year, he was awarded the two upper districts of Fuchu, Echizen, for his achievement in putting down the Echizen Ikko Ikki uprising. In 1575 he entered Etchu and based himself in Moriyama Castle. The following year, he was given 30,000 koku in the Etchu Shinkawa and Tonami districts, and in 1576 he expelled Jinbo Nagazumi and entered Toyama Castle, ruling the entire Etchu province. At that time, he was a vassal of Shibata Katsuie in Echizen, and after the Honnoji Incident he sided with the anti-Toyotomi Hideyoshi camp, but surrendered to Hideyoshi after the Battle of Shizugatake in 1618. Hideyoshi granted him the entire province of Etchu, and in December of the same year he was appointed as Mutsu no Kami (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade). However, he soon became close to Oda Nobuo and Tokugawa Ieyasu, and during the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute in 1619, he famously traveled from Toyama to Hamamatsu, crossing the Tateyama mountain range and the Sarasara Pass, to meet Ieyasu, dissatisfied with the peace agreement with Hideyoshi. After that, in August of the same year, he surrendered and swore allegiance to Hideyoshi when he was attacked by him. In 1619 he was appointed as a chamberlain (Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade). In 1620 he participated in Hideyoshi's invasion of Kyushu, and after the war he was given the entire province of Higo, and entered Uto Castle, then Kumamoto Castle, but he was accused of mismanagement during a revolt by local lords, and the following year he committed seppuku in Amagasaki, Settsu. <References> Kazuko Endo, "Sassa Narimasa"

(Kenichi Niki)

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没年：天正16.閏5.14(1588.7.7)
生年：天文5(1536)
安土桃山時代の武将。天文8(1539)年生まれとする説もある。成宗(盛政)の第5子。通称は与左衛門,内蔵助,陸奥守。尾張国(愛知県)出身,織田信長に仕える。信長が弟信行を攻めた稲生合戦や桶狭間の戦,美濃経略などに戦功をあげ,永禄10(1567)年には黒母衣衆筆頭となる。天正1(1573)年,朝倉義景攻めの先陣を務め,同3年5月の長篠合戦では鉄砲隊を指揮。同8月,越前一向一揆平定の功により,越前府中上2郡を与えられる。同8年,越中に入国して守山城に拠る。翌9年越中新川・礪波両郡3万石を与えられ,10年,神保長住を追放して富山城に入り越中一国を支配。そのころ越前の柴田勝家の与力にあったため本能寺の変後は反豊臣秀吉陣営にくみするが,同11年の賤ケ岳の戦後秀吉に降伏。秀吉より越中一国を安堵され,同12月従五位下陸奥守に叙任。しかしまもなく織田信雄・徳川家康に接近,同12年の小牧・長久手の戦に際しては,秀吉との和議を不満として,家康に会うため富山から立山連峰・更更越で浜松に赴いたことは有名。その後,同13年8月に秀吉の征討を受けて降伏,臣従を誓う。同14年従四位下侍従に叙任。同15年秀吉の九州征討に従軍,戦後肥後一国を与えられて宇土城,次いで隈本城に入るが,国人一揆の蜂起により失政の咎を受け,翌年摂津尼崎で切腹した。<参考文献>遠藤和子『佐々成政』

(二木謙一)

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