Shinohara Nagafusa

Japanese: 篠原長房 - しのはら・ながふさ

Year of death: July 16, 1573 (August 13, 1573)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. A military commander during the Warring States period. He played the role of Magoshiro, Ukyo no Shin, and became a Buddhist monk under the name Shuunsai Joboku. His ancestors are said to have been local lords from Shinohara-go, Yasu County, Omi Province (Yasu Town, Shiga Prefecture), and were vassals of a certain Taga, but then defected to Awa and served the Miyoshi clan. Nagafusa served Miyoshi Yoshikata as the lord of Kamisakura Castle, Awa Asue County (Kawajima Town, Tokushima Prefecture), and in September 1558 (Eiroku 1), he marched to Kinai with Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Yoshikata, and posted a prohibition at Saga Seiryoji Temple. In March 1559, after Yoshikata was killed in the Battle of Izumi Kumeda, he returned to Japan and became a Buddhist monk. After Nagayoshi's death, when the Three Brothers came into conflict with Matsunaga Hisahide, he played an active role as a powerful military commander on the side of the Three Brothers, and in June of the same year, he landed in Hyogo with Ashikaga Yoshihide, and in July he took Settsu Koshimizu Castle, which was on Matsunaga's side, and the following month he took Nakajima Castle in the same prefecture. Yoshihide's appointment as Shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate was largely due to Nagafusa's efforts. He showed sympathy for Christians and arranged for Frois to enter Kyoto. He resisted Oda Nobunaga, who entered Kyoto, but a peace treaty was made in November of the first year of the Genki era (1570). After Yoshikata's death, he served Miyoshi Nagaharu, and established the 22 articles of the provincial law, the Shinkansei Shiki. He was later attacked by Nagaharu and Togawa Nobuyasu, with whom he had become feudal, and was killed in battle at Kamizakura Castle. <References> Wakamatsu Wasaburo, Shinohara Nagafusa, and his "Study of the Shinkansei Shiki" (Furusato Awa, issues 96-106)

(Akira Imaya)

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

Japanese:

没年：天正1.7.16(1573.8.13)
生年：生年不詳
戦国時代の武将。孫四郎,右京進,入道して岫雲斎恕朴と号す。先祖は近江野洲郡篠原郷(滋賀県野洲町)の国人と伝え,多賀某の被官であったが阿波へ没落して三好氏に仕えたという。長房は阿波麻植郡上桜城(徳島県川島町)城主として三好義賢に仕え,永禄1(1558)年9月には三好長慶・義賢に従って畿内に出陣,嵯峨清涼寺に禁制を掲げている。同5年3月和泉久米田の戦で義賢が討死すると帰国して入道した。長慶の死後,三人衆と松永久秀が対立すると,三人衆側の有力武将として活躍,同9年6月には足利義栄を擁して兵庫に上陸,7月には松永方の摂津越水城を落とし,さらに翌月同中嶋城を下した。義栄の室町幕府将軍任官は長房の活躍によるところが大きい。キリシタンに理解を示し,フロイスの入京を斡旋した。入京した織田信長に抵抗したが,元亀1(1570)年11月講和。なお義賢の没後は三好長治に仕え,分国法『新加制式』22カ条を制定した。その後不和となった長治や十河存保に攻撃され,上桜城で戦死。<参考文献>若松和三郎『篠原長房』,同「新加制式考」(『ふるさと阿波』96～106号)

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