Nagato Nawa - Nagato Nawa

Japanese: 名和長年 - なわ・ながとし

Year of death: 3rd year of Kenmu/1st year of Engen (August 7, 1336)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. A military commander in the late Kamakura and Nanboku-cho periods. His first name was Nagataka, Lord of Hoki. Son of Yukitaka. Until his father Yukitaka's time, the family lived in Nagata, Hoki Province, and took the name Nagata, but during Nagataka's time, they moved to Nawa in Kan'yū County (Nawa Town, Tottori Prefecture) in the same province, and took the name Nawa. They owned the good port of Nawaminato, and accumulated wealth through commercial activities along the coast of the Sea of Japan. In the leap February of the second year of the Shōkei/third year of the Genkō era (1333), when Emperor Go-Daigo escaped from Oki and landed in Hoki, Nagataka welcomed the emperor, setting up camp at Mt. Funakami, and repelling an attack by the shogunate forces led by Sasaki Kiyotaka. For this achievement, the emperor bestowed upon him the character "year" (toshi), and he changed his name to Nagato, and is said to have also been given a family crest. On May 23 of the same year, when the Emperor departed from Mt. Senjo and headed for Kyoto, Yoshitaka accompanied the Imperial Army for many years. During the Kenmu government, he was appointed as a member of the Record Office, the Office of Decision-Making for Miscellaneous Cases, and Higashiichimasa, and enjoyed the height of honor by serving as a personal bodyguard for the Emperor. People envied his long years of prosperity, calling him "Miki Issou" (the title given to four of Godaigo's loyal retainers). His son Yoshitaka was also awarded the Yashiro Manor in Higo Province for his military achievements. In October of the first year of Kenmu (1334), he was ordered by the Emperor to capture Prince Morinaga at Seiryoden and send him to Kamakura. During the Kenmu Rebellion, Yoshitaka defeated the Ashikaga Takauji Army and forced them to retreat to Kyushu, but when Takauji's army, having regained its strength, entered Kyoto, he accompanied the Emperor and took refuge in Mt. Hiei. On June 30, 1336 (the 3rd year of the Kenmu era/the 1st year of the Engen era), he marched into Kyoto, but was killed in battle at Ichijo on Omiya Street (referred to as the Battle of Sanjo-Inokuma in the Baisho-ron).

(Kazuhiko Sato)

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

Japanese:

没年：建武3/延元1.6.30(1336.8.7)
生年：生年不詳
鎌倉後期・南北朝時代の武将。初名長高,伯耆守。行高の子。父行高の代までは伯耆国長田に居住して長田氏を名乗っていたが,長高のとき同国汗入郡名和(鳥取県名和町)に移住して名和氏を称した。良港名和湊を領有し,日本海沿岸の商業活動によって富を蓄えた。正慶2/元弘3(1333)年閏2月,後醍醐天皇が隠岐を脱出して伯耆に上陸すると,長高は天皇を迎えて船上山に布陣し,佐々木清高の率いる幕府軍の攻撃を退けた。この功により,天皇から「年」の字を与えられて,長年と改名し,同時に家紋をも賜ったと伝えられている。同年5月23日,天皇が船上山を出発して京都に向かうと長年も天皇軍に随従した。建武政権下では,記録所,雑訴決断所の寄人,東市正などに任命され,天皇の身辺警護に当たるなど栄耀をきわめた。世人は長年の栄華を「三木一草」(後醍醐の忠臣4人の称)と称して羨んでいる。子義高も戦功により,肥後国八代荘を与えられた。建武1(1334)年10月,天皇の命令により護良親王を清涼殿で捕縛し鎌倉へと送った。建武の乱では,いったん足利尊氏軍を破って九州へと敗走させたが,勢力を盛り返した尊氏軍が入京するや天皇を奉じて叡山に避難した。建武3/延元1(1336)年6月30日,京中へ打って出たものの,大宮通り一条の合戦(『梅松論』では三条猪熊の合戦という)で戦死をとげた。

(佐藤和彦)

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