Shigetsune Tagaya

Japanese: 多賀谷重経 - たがや・しげつね

Year of death: 9th November 1618 (25th December 1618)
Year of birth: Eiroku 1 (1558)
A military commander during the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. Lord of Shimotsuma Castle in Hitachi Province (Shimotsuma City, Ibaraki Prefecture). Son of Masatsune. His original name was Takatsune. He was appointed Shimousa no Kami and Shuri-no-taifu, and called himself Michiame. At the end of the Sengoku period, he formed an alliance with the Yuki and Satake clans, expanding his territory to western Hitachi and northeastern Shimousa, and oppressing the Okami clan of Hitachi Ushiku. He had a keen eye for political affairs, and with his skillful political skills, he built the Tagaya clan to its peak, but under the Toyotomi government, the affiliation with the Yuki and Satake clans was denied, and he retired to Shimotsuma Castle, placing his biological son Mitsutsune with the Yuki clan and his adopted heir Nobuie (younger brother of Satake Yoshinobu) with the Satake clan. In 1602, when Nobuie followed his older brother Yoshinobu to Dewa, he became a ronin and wandered around various places, dying in Hikone, Omi. <References> "Sekijo Town History" General History Vol. 1

(Ichimura Takao)

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没年：元和4.11.9(1618.12.25)
生年：永禄1(1558)
戦国・安土桃山時代の武将。常陸国下妻城(茨城県下妻市)城主。政経の子。初名は尊経。下総守,修理大夫に任じ,道雨と号す。戦国末期,結城・佐竹両氏と目下の同盟関係を結び,常陸西部,下総北東部に領土を拡大,常陸牛久の岡見氏らを圧迫した。政局を見る目は鋭く,巧みな政治手腕で多賀谷氏の最盛期を築くが,豊臣政権下で結城・佐竹両氏との両属関係を否定され,実子三経を結城氏に,養嗣子宣家(佐竹義宣の弟)を佐竹氏に付けて下妻城に隠居。慶長7(1602)年,宣家が兄義宣に従い出羽へ移ると,浪人して各地を放浪,近江彦根で死去した。<参考文献>『関城町史』通史編上

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