Masachika Togashi

Japanese: 富樫政親 - とがし・まさちか

Year of death: 22/8/1488 (27/9/1488)
Year of birth: Kōsei 1 (1455)
A military commander in the Muromachi period. Son of Nariharu and grandson of Noriie. His father, Nariharu, divided Kaga with his uncle Yasutaka and was given the position of Northern Kaga Shugo, but in 1458, Hosokawa Katsumoto forcibly appointed Akamatsu Masanori as Shugo, and Masachika lost this position. However, in 1464, Yasutaka handed over the position of Southern Kaga Shugo and family headship to Masachika, and the two Togashi branches were united. During the Onin War from 1467 to 1477, Masachika sided with Hosokawa Katsumoto on the Eastern side, but when Akamatsu Masanori left Kaga for Bizen and Harima, the local lords of Northern Kaga supported Masachika's younger brother, Kochiyo, and joined the Western side. In Bunmei 6, Masachika won the battle against the Kochiyo faction and brought the entire Kaga province under his control. In the same year, he became a close attendant to the Shogun family, including attending the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihisa's congratulatory ceremony for becoming the right general. In 1487, he took part in Yoshihisa's campaign to defeat Rokkaku Takayori in Omi, but while he was away, the Ikko Ikki rebels surrounded Takao Castle, forcing him to return home in a hurry. In June of the following year, he was attacked by the rebels and committed suicide. After that, Yasutaka was once again supported as Shugo by the rebels, and he began to exercise his Shugo rights. The conflict between the two Togashi clans, which began in Kakitsu 1 (1441), was a struggle between the Hatakeyama and Hosokawa clans over influence in Kaga, and it is believed that it was at the strong will of Hosokawa Katsumoto that the Akamatsu clan temporarily became Kita Shugo and that Masachika was handed the family headship by Yasutaka. In addition, behind the reassignment of the shugo to Yasutaka was the conflict between Yoshihisa, who aimed to strengthen the power of the shogun, and Masamoto Hosokawa, who opposed this, and it could be said that the Togashi family and Kaga Province became victims of the power struggle within the shogunate. <References> Inoue Teruo, "Research on the Ikko Ikki," Imaya Akira, "Research on the Disintegration Process of the Muromachi Shogunate"

(Haruo Ishida)

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

Japanese:

没年：長享2.8.22(1488.9.27)
生年：康正1(1455)
室町時代の武将。成春の子,教家の孫。父成春は叔父泰高と加賀を二分し北加賀守護職を与えられていたが,長禄2(1458)年,細川勝元が強引に赤松政則を同守護としたためこれを失う。しかし寛正5(1464)年,政親が泰高から南加賀守護職と家督を譲られ,ここに富樫両流は一本化した。応仁1～文明9(1467～77)年の応仁の乱では東軍細川勝元方に属したが,北加賀の国人衆は,赤松政則が同地より備前・播磨に転出すると政親の弟幸千代を擁立して西軍に属した。文明6年,幸千代派との抗争に勝利した政親は加賀一国を勢力下に置き,同18年には将軍足利義尚の右大将拝賀式に供奉するなど将軍家にも近侍した。次いで長享1(1487)年,義尚の近江六角高頼征討に参陣するが,この留守に一向一揆衆らが高尾城を包囲,急遽帰国する。翌年6月,一揆衆に攻められ自害。以後,泰高が一揆衆により再度守護に擁立され,守護権を行使することになる。嘉吉1(1441)年にはじまる両富樫の争いは,加賀への影響力を巡る畠山・細川両氏の争いであり,一時赤松氏が北守護となったのも,政親が泰高から家督を譲られたのも細川勝元の強い意向によるものと思われる。また泰高への守護再交替の背景には,将軍権力の強化を目指す義尚とこれに反対する細川政元の対立があり,富樫家と加賀国は幕府内権力闘争の犠牲になったともいえよう。<参考文献>井上鋭夫『一向一揆の研究』,今谷明『室町幕府解体過程の研究』

(石田晴男)

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