Nagamochi Castle

Japanese: 城長茂 - じょう・ながもち

Year of death: Kennin 1.2 (1201)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. A military commander in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. His father was Jokuro Sukekuni. Younger brother of Joku Sukenaga. Initially called Sukeshiki. Since it was called "Shirakawa Oyakata," we can tell that he had his residence in Shirakawa Manor in Echigo Province (southeastern Kitakanbara County, Niigata Prefecture). In June 1181, after the death of his brother Sukenaga, he marched into Shinano Province at the head of an army of over 10,000 men, and fought against Kiso Yoshinaka at Yokota-gawara (Nagano City), but was defeated. In August of the same year, he was appointed Echigo no Kami, but in the spring of 1184, he was captured by Kamakura forces that invaded Echigo, and was sent to Kamakura as a prisoner. In September 1188, he met Yoritomo through the intercession of a Kumano monk, Sadato, but refused to become a vassal. In July of the following year, he was allowed by Yoritomo to take part in the conquest of Oshu, and it seems he became a vassal afterwards. In January of 1201, after the death of Yoritomo, he attempted to overthrow the Kamakura Shogunate, raising an army in Kyoto, but failed, and was killed in February of the same year. In response to Nagamochi's uprising in Kyoto, his nephew Sukemori and his sister Sakanoue rose up in rebellion in Echigo Province, but were killed by the Shogunate forces, and the clan was wiped out.

(Tamura Yutaka)

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Japanese:

没年：建仁1.2(1201)
生年：生年不詳
平安後期・鎌倉初期の武将。父は城九郎資国。城資永の弟。当初は資職と称す。「白河御館」と呼ばれていたことから,越後国白河荘(新潟県北蒲原郡東南部)に居館を置いていたことがわかる。兄・資永の死去後の治承5(1181)年6月,1万余の軍勢を率いて信濃国に進軍し,横田河原(長野市)で木曾義仲と戦うが敗北。同年8月,越後守に任命されるが,元暦1(1184)年春以降,越後に進攻した鎌倉方の軍勢に捕らえられ,囚人として鎌倉に送られた。文治4(1188)年9月,熊野の僧・定任のとりなしで頼朝と対面するが御家人となることを拒否。翌年7月,頼朝から奥州征伐に参陣することを許され,その後,御家人となったようである。頼朝没後の正治3(1201)年1月,鎌倉幕府の打倒を企て,京都で挙兵するが失敗し,同年2月に討たれる。長茂の京都での挙兵に呼応して,甥の資盛や妹・坂額が越後国で蜂起するが幕府軍に討たれて,族滅した。

(田村裕)

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