Akazawa Tomotsune

Japanese: 赤沢朝経 - あかざわ・ともつね

Year of death: June 26, 1507 (August 4, 1507)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. A military commander in the Muromachi period, and a retainer of Hosokawa Masamoto, the shogunal deputy of the Muromachi shogunate. Sawazoken Muneyu. Kasa. A member of the Ogasawara clan of Shinano Province, he served in the Omi campaign of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiki (Yoshitane) in 1491, when Masamoto recognized his falconry skills and made him his vassal (Sonkeikaku edition of Fumon Monogatari). As Asatsugu's falconry is mentioned in the Inryoken Diary dated February 9, 1491, he must have come to Kyoto before that. He later became deputy governor of three upper counties in Yamashiro Province (Kuze, Tsuzugi, and Sagara), and in 1496 he attacked Yarokuzaemon Yusa in Yamashiro Province, and in February 1497 he was appointed as the deputy governor of 17 places in Kawachi Province. He played an active role as a subordinate of Masamoto, attacking Mount Hiei in July of the same year and attacking Hatakeyama Naoyuki in Yamashiro Province in September of the same year. From December of the same year until June 1501, he marched into Yamato Province, and Kofuku-ji Temple moved the sacred tree and demanded the Imperial Court that Chokei resign. In April of the same year, he ordered his vassals Momii and Yori to attack Yohonjo, but after being defeated, he marched into Yamato Province again in May and burned down Saidai-ji Temple. In March 1504, he rebelled against Masamoto, but was pardoned in June thanks to the intercession of Yakushiji Genichi, and went to Kyoto. When Genichi's rebellion broke out in September of the same year, Asatsune also sided with it. In June of the second year, he was pardoned again and went to Kyoto, where he was reappointed by Masamoto as Shugodai of the three upper districts of Yamashiro, as he had been previously. In August of the third year, he advanced into Yamato Province to subjugate the local lords of the Hatakeyama side, the Tsutsui and Ochi clans, and major battles were fought at Hokkeji Temple, Bodaisan Shorekiji Temple, and Mt. Tonomine. When Masamoto was assassinated in June of the fourth year, he was surrounded by an uprising led by Isshiki Yoshiarikata of Tango Province and committed suicide. A book on falconry, "Soeki Sodensho," remains.

(Kyoji Morita)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：永正4.6.26(1507.8.4)
生年：生年不詳
室町時代の武将,室町幕府管領細川政元の内衆。沢蔵軒宗益。加三。信濃国小笠原氏の一族であったが,延徳3(1491)年将軍足利義材(義稙)の近江出陣に従軍した際,政元に鷹狩の技能を認められてその被官となった(尊経閣本『不問物語』)。延徳4年2月9日付の『蔭凉軒日録』で朝経の鷹狩が話題となっているところをみると,上洛したのはそれ以前であろう。その後,山城国上3郡(久世,綴喜,相楽)守護代となり,明応5(1496)年遊佐弥六左衛門を山城国に攻撃し,8年2月河内国17カ所代官に補任され,同年7月比叡山を攻撃,同年9月山城国に畠山尚順勢を攻撃するなど政元の部将として活躍した。同年12月から文亀1(1501)年6月まで大和国に進軍,興福寺は神木を動座して朝廷に朝経退陣を要求した。同2年4月被官籾井,依利の両名に楊本荘を攻撃させたが,これに敗れると5月再び大和国に進軍,西大寺を炎上させるなどした。永正1(1504)年3月政元に反逆するが,薬師寺元一の執り成しによって6月赦免されて上洛。次いで同年9月元一の反乱が起こると,朝経もそれに与同した。2年6月再び赦免されて上洛し,政元より元のごとく山城上3郡の守護代に再任された。3年8月,畠山方国人筒井・越智氏らの征討のため大和国に進撃,法華寺や菩提山正暦寺,多武峰などで大合戦が展開された。同4年6月政元暗殺の際,丹後国一色義有方の一揆に包囲されて自殺。鷹狩の書『宗益相伝書』が残る。

(森田恭二)

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