Taira no Yoritsuna - Taira no Yoritsuna

Japanese: 平頼綱 - たいらのよりつな

Year of death: Eijin 1.4.22 (1293.5.29)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. A military commander in the late Kamakura period. He is said to be the son of either Moritsuna or Moritoki, who was the head of the Samurai-dokoro and the internal kanrei of Hojo Yasutoki and Tokiyori. He was called Saburo or Saemonnojo, and his posthumous Buddhist name was Koen (Kaen) or Heizenmon. He was the head of the Samurai-dokoro and the internal kanrei of Tokuso Tokimune, and was regarded as the "master of the world" (Nichiren's letter), and gained influence as the husband of the wet nurse of the young regent Sadatoki. In 1285 (Kōan 8), he slandered Munekage, the son of Adachi Yasumori (Sadatoki's maternal grandfather), who held real power in the shogunate, as plotting a rebellion, and destroyed his family (Shimotsuki Incident). With the power of Tokuso, who had established dominance in the shogunate, as a backdrop, he carried out a despotic government that "everyone trembled in fear of." However, in 1293, his eldest son Munetsuna secretly accused him of plotting to make his second son, Iinuma Sukemune (Sukemune), Shogun, and he was attacked by assassins sent by Sadatoki, leading to his suicide along with his family at his residence in Kyojidani, Kamakura (Taira no Yoritsuna's Rebellion). Munetsuna was exiled to Sado, and later returned to the position of Inner Kanrei. Thereafter, the Nagasaki clan, a member of the same clan, served as Inner Kanrei until the end of the Kamakura period. There is a legend in Heizaemon Jigoku in Atami, Izu, that tells of Yoritsuna's evil acts. <References> Sato Shinichi, "Research on the Litigation System of the Kamakura Shogunate"

(Yuyama Manabu)

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Japanese:

没年：永仁1.4.22(1293.5.29)
生年：生年不詳
鎌倉後期の武将。北条泰時・時頼の侍所所司兼内管領であった盛綱・盛時いずれかの子という。三郎,左衛門尉と称し,法名は杲円(果円),平禅門ともいわれた。得宗時宗の侍所所司兼内管領で「天下の棟梁」(日蓮書状)と目され,幼い執権貞時の乳母の夫として勢力を得る。弘安8(1285)年,幕政の実権を握る安達泰盛(貞時の外祖父)の子宗景が謀反を企てていると讒言し,その一族を滅ぼした(霜月騒動)。幕政での優位を確立した得宗勢力を背景に,「諸人が恐れおののく」専制的な政治を行った。しかし,永仁1(1293)年,次男の飯沼資宗(助宗)を将軍にしようと企てていると嫡男宗綱から密訴され,貞時が差し向けた討手に攻められ,鎌倉経師谷の邸で一族と自害した(平頼綱の乱)。宗綱は佐渡に配流され,のちに内管領に復帰した。その後は同族の長崎氏が鎌倉末期まで内管領となった。伊豆熱海の平左衛門地獄に頼綱の悪逆を伝える伝承がある。<参考文献>佐藤進一『鎌倉幕府訴訟制度の研究』

(湯山学)

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