Hatakeyama Kunikiyo

A military commander during the Northern and Southern Courts period. Son of Iekuni. Sakyodayu and Shuridayu. Dosei was his posthumous name. He served the Ashikaga clan during the civil wars. During the Kanno Disturbance (1349-52), he initially sided with Ashikaga Tadayoshi, but later joined Takauji's side at the urging of Hosokawa Akiuji. In 1353 (Shohei 8, Bunwa 2), he became the steward of Kamakura kubo Ashikaga Motouji. In 1358 (Shohei 13, Enbun 3), he murdered Nitta Yoshioki at Watashi in Musashi Yaguchi (Ota Ward, Tokyo). The following year, at the request of Ashikaga Yoshiakira, he led a large army from the eastern provinces to Kyoto to fight against the southern forces of Kusunoki Masanori. However, he started an internal dispute with Niki Yoshinaga and others, which resulted in a counterattack by the southern forces. In 1660, he left Kyoto and returned to Kamakura, but the generals of the eastern provinces were increasingly dissatisfied with Kunikiyo's arbitrary decisions, such as the large-scale military mobilization he implemented when he went to Kyoto, and the following year, he was dismissed from his position as steward by Motouji and banished from Kamakura. He resisted Motouji at the castles of Mito, Kanayama, and Shuzenji in Izu, but was outnumbered and surrendered in 1662 (17th year of the Shohei era, 1st year of the Jōji era). With the help of the Jishu sect, he escaped to Kyoto, but later died in poverty in Yamato.

[Kazuhiko Sato]

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南北朝時代の武将。家国(いえくに)の子。左京大夫(さきょうだゆう)、修理(しゅり)大夫。法名道誓。内乱の過程を足利(あしかが)氏に従い活躍した。観応(かんのう)の擾乱(じょうらん)（1349～52）の際に、初めは足利直義(ただよし)側にくみしたが、のち細川顕氏(あきうじ)の勧めにより尊氏(たかうじ)方となった。1353年（正平8・文和2）鎌倉公方(くぼう)足利基氏(もとうじ)の執事(しつじ)となる。58年（正平13・延文3）には新田義興(にったよしおき)を武蔵矢口(むさしやぐち)の渡(わたし)（東京都大田区）に謀殺した。翌年、足利義詮(よしあきら)の要請に応じて、東国の大軍を率いて上洛(じょうらく)、楠木正儀(くすのきまさのり)の南軍と戦った。しかし仁木義長(にきよしなが)らと内紛を起こし、南軍の反撃を許す結果となった。60年京都を去って鎌倉に帰ったが、上洛に際しての大規模な軍事動員など、国清の専断に対する東国諸将の不満が高まり、ついに翌年、基氏により執事職を罷免され、鎌倉から追放された。伊豆の三津(みと)、金山(かなやま)、修善寺(しゅぜんじ)の諸城において基氏に反抗したが、衆寡敵せず、62年（正平17・貞治1）降伏した。時衆(じしゅう)の助けにより京都まで逃れたが、のち大和(やまと)に窮死したという。

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