Sukechika Ito

Japanese: 伊東祐親 - いとう・すけちか

Year of death: 14th February 1182 (20th March 1182)
Year of birth: Unknown. A warrior from Izu Province in the late Heian period. He was called Kawazu Jiro and Ito Jiro. His father was Sukeie. He fought with his nephew (also called cousin) Kudo Suketsune over the division of his territory, Ito Manor, and stole Kudo's wife. In resentment, Suketsune attacked him at the hunting grounds in Izu and killed his son, Kawazu Saburo Sukeyasu. Sukeyasu's children were the Soga brothers. Sukechika served the Taira clan and attempted to kill Minamoto no Yoritomo, who had been exiled to Izu, because he believed that his daughter had had an affair with Yoritomo. In 1180 (Jisho 4), Sukechika surrounded Yoritomo, who had raised an army, at Ishibashiyama and forced him to retreat, but was captured by the Minamoto clan on his way to the Battle of Fujigawa and was entrusted to his son-in-law, Miura Yoshizumi. Later, thanks to Yoshizumi's efforts, he was pardoned for his crime, but he could not accept the punishment and committed suicide.

(Kenji Iinuma)

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Japanese:

没年：寿永1.2.14(1182.3.20)
生年：生年不詳
平安末期の伊豆国の武士。河津二郎,伊東二郎と称す。父は祐家。所領伊東荘の分割をめぐり,甥(従兄弟ともいう)の工藤祐経と争い,その妻を奪い,その恨みから伊豆の狩場で祐経に襲われ,子の河津三郎祐泰を殺害される。祐泰の子が曾我兄弟である。祐親は平氏に仕え,伊豆に流されていた源頼朝と娘が関係を持ったとして,頼朝を殺害しようとした。治承4(1180)年に挙兵した頼朝を石橋山に囲み,これを敗走させたが,富士川の戦に参陣途中,源氏側に捕まり,女婿三浦義澄に預けられ,その後義澄の尽力で罪を許されるが潔しとせず,自害して果てた。

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