Nobunao Nanbu

Japanese: 南部信直 - なんぶ・のぶなお

Year of death: October 5, 1599 (November 22, 1599)
Year of birth: Tenbun 15 (1546)
A military commander during the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. Son of Nanbu Takanobu, lord of Takko Castle in Nukanbe County, Mutsu Province (Takko Town, Aomori Prefecture). Around 1565, he was adopted by Nanbu Harumasa, lord of Sannohe Castle, his main family, and took Harumasa's daughter as his wife. After the death of his wife, he returned to Takko Castle for a time, but after the death of Harumasa and his family, he returned to lordship of Sannohe Castle in 1582. At that time, the Nanbu clan's territory was centered on their main territory of Nukanbe County, and extended to Tsugaru in the north, Kazuno in the west, Iwate and Hei County in the south, but it was not necessarily stable. For this reason, Nobunao sent troops to various places to stabilize his territory and reclaim territories that had been encroached upon by other clans. He also showed skillful cooperation with the central government. In 1814, he sent his retainers to Maeda Toshiie to ask for connections with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the following year he received a blood-stamped oath from Toshiie, which he succeeded in. However, after Hideyoshi's attack on Odawara in 1815, Nobunao was only granted control of "seven counties in the southern part of the prefecture." The following year, after suppressing the rebellion of Kunohe Masazane, he was given Hienuki and Waga counties, becoming a daimyo with nine counties and 100,000 koku of rice. He rebuilt Kunohe Castle (Ninohe City, Iwate Prefecture) and named it Fukuoka Castle, making it his main castle.

(Kiyoshi Ito)

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Japanese:

没年：慶長4.10.5(1599.11.22)
生年：天文15(1546)
戦国・安土桃山時代の武将。陸奥国糠部郡田子城(青森県田子町)城主南部高信の子。永禄8(1565)年ごろに本家の三戸城主南部晴政の養子となり,晴政の娘を正室とする。正室らの死去により,一時田子城に戻ったが,晴政らの死により,天正10(1582)年再度三戸城主に返り咲いた。このころの南部氏の領国は本領の糠部郡を中心として,北は津軽,西は鹿角,南は岩手,閉伊郡などにおよんでいたが,必ずしも安定したものではなかった。このため信直は領国の安定と,他氏に蚕食された所領の奪還のため各地に出兵した。さらに中央政権とも巧みに連携する動きをみせる。すなわち14年家臣を前田利家のもとに送り,豊臣秀吉との繋がりを依頼し,翌年に利家の血判誓紙を得て,それを成功させている。だが18年の秀吉の小田原攻めののち,信直に安堵されたのは「南部内七郡」だけであった。翌年九戸政実の反乱を平定したのち,稗貫,和賀の両郡が与えられて,9郡10万石の大名となった。九戸城(岩手県二戸市)を再興して福岡城となし本城とした。

(伊藤喜良)

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