Kazuyoshi Ishibashi

Japanese: 石橋和義 - いしばし・かずよし

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. Military commander during the Northern and Southern Court period. Son of Yoshihiro. Initially named Ujiyoshi. Ranked Saemon no jo, Mikawa no kami, Sakon no shogen, and Junior Fourth Rank. Called Owari Saburo. Great-grandson of Shiba Ieuji, a member of the Ashikaga clan, he took the name Ishibashi from the time of Kazuyoshi. He participated in the uprising against Emperor Godaigo led by Ashikaga Takauji, and in 1336 (Kenmu 3/Engen 1), he was ordered at a military council in Muronotsu to prepare for the advance eastward as the commander of Bizen, and when Takauji went to Kyoto, he led troops from Sanyo and fought in the Kinai region, and in the following year (134), he was appointed Shugo of Hoki Province, and in 1339 (Ryakuo 2/Engen 4), he was appointed Shugo of Bingo Province. He had a close relationship with Ashikaga Tadayoshi as a member of the Council of Ministers and head of the government, but during the Kan'o Disturbance he initially sided with Tadayoshi, but in July of 1351, when the second split occurred and Tadayoshi's party fled to the northern provinces, he remained in Kyoto. He later switched sides to Takauji, fighting in various places in Bizen and Bingo, and when the Southern Court's Kusunoki Masanori and Ishido Yorifusa occupied Kyoto in 1353, he marched east as a Shogunate army general in cooperation with Akamatsu Norisuke and recaptured Kyoto. After that, he served as the guardian of Wakasa Province from 1361 to 1363, and implemented the half-tax law. Although the details of his descendants and land holdings are not clear, he was treated specially as a member of the Ashikaga Shogun's family (Goikeshu) along with the Kira, Shibukawa, Isshiki, and Uesugi clans. His Buddhist name was Shinkatsu. <References> Shinichi Sato, "The Civil War of the Northern and Southern Courts"

(Kiyoo Ito)

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Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
南北朝時代の武将。義博の子。初名氏義。左衛門佐,三河守,左近将監,従四位下。尾張三郎と号す。足利氏一族斯波家氏の曾孫で,この和義のときから石橋氏を名乗った。足利尊氏による反後醍醐天皇の挙兵に従軍,建武3/延元1(1336)年尊氏の西走に際して,室ノ津の軍議で備前の大将として東上への備えを命じられ,尊氏の上洛に際しては山陽の兵を率いて畿内に転戦,翌4年伯耆国守護,暦応2/延元4(1339)年には備後国守護に補任されている。評定衆,頭人として足利直義と浅からぬ関係を持っていたが,観応の擾乱では,最初直義方についたものの,観応2/正平6(1351)年の第2次分裂の際,7月直義の一党が北国に向けて出奔したときは京に残留している。のち尊氏方に降り,備前,備後にかけて各地に転戦,文和2/正平8(1353)年南朝方の楠木正儀,石塔頼房らが京都を占拠したときは,幕府軍の将として赤松則祐と協力して東上し,京都を奪還した。その後,康安1/正平16(1361)年から貞治2/正平18(1363)年まで若狭国守護となり,半済令を実施している。子孫の系譜,所領などは詳らかではないが,吉良,渋川,一色,上杉諸氏らと共に足利将軍の一門(御一家衆)として特別の待遇を受けている。法号は心勝。<参考文献>佐藤進一『南北朝の内乱』

(伊藤清郎)

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