Toki Yorinari - Time・Yorinari

Japanese: 土岐頼芸 - とき・よりなり

Year of death: December 4, 1582 (December 28, 1582)
Year of birth: Bunki 1 (1501)
A military commander in the Sengoku period. Shugo of Mino Province (Gifu Prefecture). Son of Masafusa. Sakyo-no-taifu, Mino-no-kami. He lost the fight to succeed his brother as Shugo and lived in misfortune at Sagiyama Castle in Togi County, Mino, but was later supported as the lord of Mino by Saito Dosan and entered Okusa Castle in Yamagata County. He eventually fell out of accord with Dosan and was eventually driven out of Mino, and the Toki Shugo family was destroyed. There are various theories about the details, but it is believed that he was supported as Mino Shugo by Dosan in Tenbun 4 (1535), and was appointed Mino no Kami the following year. The most likely theory is that he was finally driven out of Mino in Tenbun 21, but this is not conclusive. After that, he lived in lodgings with the Rokkaku clan in Omi, and it seems that he was supported by Oda Nobunaga in his later years, but it is also said that he was under the Toki branch of the Maki family in Shimousa. In 1582, he was welcomed by his former vassal, Yoshimichi Inaba (Ittetsu), to live in Gire, Ono County, Mino Province, where he died of an illness shortly thereafter. He excelled in painting hawks, and some say he is the same person as the contemporary warrior painter, Toki Tobun. Another popular theory is that he is the biological father of Yoshitatsu, the son of Dosan.

(Taniguchi Ken's words)

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

Japanese:

没年：天正10.12.4(1582.12.28)
生年：文亀1(1501)
戦国時代の武将。美濃国(岐阜県)守護。政房の子。左京大夫,美濃守。兄との守護職相続争いに敗れ,美濃方県郡鷺山城に不遇をかこっていたが,のちの斎藤道三によって美濃国主に擁立され,山県郡大桑城に入城。やがて道三と不和になり,ついには美濃を追われて,土岐守護家はここに滅亡したという。細部については諸説あるが,道三によって美濃守護に擁立されたのは天文4(1535)年のことと推定され,翌年美濃守に任官。最終的に美濃を追われた年は天文21年とする説が有力であるが,確定的ではない。その後,近江六角氏に寄宿し,晩年は織田信長に扶持されていたらしいが,下総万喜の土岐庶流のもとにあったともいう。天正10(1582)年,旧臣の稲葉良通(一鉄)に迎えられ美濃大野郡岐礼にあり,まもなく同地で病没。鷹の絵に優れ,同時代の武人画家,土岐洞文と同一人物とする説もある。俗説では道三の子義竜の実父であるという。

(谷口研語)

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