Yoshikado Shiba

Japanese: 斯波義廉 - しば・よしかど

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. A military commander in the Muromachi period. Son of Shibukawa Yoshikagami. Jibu-daifu and Sahyoe-no-jo. After Yoshitoshi, head of the Shiba clan, incurred the wrath of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa due to a conflict with senior vassal Kai Tsuneharu and others and fell from power, and his son Matsuomaru was soon deposed as well, he was welcomed as his successor by the Shibukawa clan, also of the Ashikaga clan, in 1461 (Kansho 2), and took over as shugo of the three provinces of Echizen (Fukui Prefecture), Owari (Aichi Prefecture), and Totomi (Shizuoka Prefecture). This was likely due to the wishes of the Asakura clan, who had risen to the highest position among the vassals of the Shiba clan after the death of Tsuneharu. In the same year, Yoshimitsu's father, Mochitane, and Yoshimasa's favorite, Ise Sadachika, campaigned for Yoshimitsu to be pardoned, and he became head of the family in July of the following year, but most of his retainers supported Yoshikazu, and in September of the same year, Yoshikazu's father-in-law, Yamana Sozen, and others expelled Sadachika, so Yoshikazu became head of the family again, and in 1467, he was appointed as kanrei. This succession dispute was one of the causes of the Onin War, as Yoshimitsu sought support from Hosokawa Katsumoto, who was in conflict with Sozen, but he was at the mercy of the intentions of senior vassals and the Shogun's close associates, and it ended up decisively undermining the authority of the Shiba clan. Yoshikazu, who belonged to the Western army on Sozen's side during the Onin War, was dismissed as kanrei in 1470, and Asakura Takakage, who had gone to Echizen in the leap month of October under the pretext of suppressing Yoshimitsu of the Eastern army, switched sides to the Eastern army, and in 1471, he was recognized as deputy governor of Echizen Province, putting Yoshikazu in a difficult position. After that, the Asakura clan defeated the Kai and Ninomiya clans who had remained on Yoshikazu's side, and in the same year, Yoshikazu almost completely subjugated Echizen, and in the same year, Yoshikazu left Kyoto for Owari. There, he was employed by the deputy governor Oda Toshihiro and fought against Oda Toshisada, who was on Yoshikazu's side, but his movements were soon lost. <References> Suzuki Ryoichi, "Onin War"

(Akira Kawamura)

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室町時代の武将。渋川義鏡の子。治部大輔,左兵衛佐。斯波宗家の義敏が重臣甲斐常治らとの対立により将軍足利義政の怒りを買って失脚し,その子松王丸もまもなく廃されたあと,寛正2(1461)年同じ足利一門の渋川氏から後嗣として迎えられ,越前(福井県)・尾張(愛知県)・遠江(静岡県)3カ国の守護職を継いだ。この背景には常治亡きあと斯波氏家臣中最高の地位に上ってきた朝倉氏の意向があったと考えられる。同6年義敏の実父持種や義政の寵臣伊勢貞親の運動で義敏が許され翌年7月家督についたが,家臣の多くは義廉を支持し,同年9月義廉の舅山名宗全らが貞親を追放したので再び当主につき,応仁1(1467)年には管領に就任した。義敏が宗全と対立する細川勝元に支援を求めたことでこの家督争いは応仁の乱の一因をなしたが,重臣や将軍側近勢力の思惑に翻弄されたもので,斯波氏の権威を決定的に失墜させることになった。応仁の乱で宗全方の西軍に属した義廉は,同2年管領を罷免され,東軍の義敏討伐を名目に閏10月越前に下った朝倉孝景が東軍に寝返って,文明3(1471)年越前国守護代職を認められたことで苦境に立たされた。その後朝倉氏が義廉方にとどまった甲斐・二宮両氏らを討って同7年ほぼ越前を制圧すると,同年義廉は京都から尾張に下った。ここで守護代織田敏広に奉じられて義敏方の織田敏定と戦うなどの活動も見られるが,やがて動静は窺えなくなる。<参考文献>鈴木良一『応仁の乱』

(河村昭一)

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