Nagaharu Bessho

Japanese: 別所長治 - べっしょ・ながはる

Year of death: January 17, 1580 (February 2, 1580)
Year of birth: Eiroku 1 (1558)
A military commander in the Sengoku period. His father was Nagakatsu. He was a member of the Akamatsu clan, the guardian of Harima Province (Hyogo Prefecture), and served Oda Nobunaga in 1575. He had intended to be the vanguard of an attack on the Chugoku Mori clan, but when Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi was appointed commander-in-chief and entered Harima in the sixth year of the same year, Nagaharu barricaded himself in Miki Castle and rebelled against Nobunaga. One theory is that this was due to slander from his uncle, Yoshiaki, or that he was responding to the Mori clan, with whom he had a cooperative relationship. Hideyoshi attacked Miki Castle together with Oda Nobutada, but powerful clans in eastern Harima, the Hatano clan of Tanba, and Araki Murashige of Settsu, who had also rebelled against Nobunaga, all responded to Nagaharu. At first, Miki Castle was held for nearly two years thanks to the provision of military supplies from the Mori Army, but after Murashige was defeated, Hideyoshi gradually captured the secondary castles, isolating Miki Castle and starving it out, leading to many people starving to death in the castle. Nagaharu committed suicide with his brothers, on the condition that the lives of the castle soldiers be spared. <References> "Hyogo Prefecture History" Volume 3

(Haruo Ishida)

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Japanese:

没年：天正8.1.17(1580.2.2)
生年：永禄1(1558)
戦国時代の武将。父は長勝。播磨国(兵庫県)守護赤松氏の一族で,天正3(1575)年織田信長に出仕した。中国毛利攻めの先陣となるつもりでいたところ,羽柴(豊臣)秀吉が総指揮官に任ぜられ同6年播磨入りしたため,三木城に立てこもって信長に背いたという。一説には伯父賀相の讒言とも,協調関係にあった毛利氏に応じたものともいう。秀吉は織田信忠と共に三木城を攻めたが,東播磨の豪族や丹波波多野氏,そして同じく信長に背いた摂津の荒木村重も長治に呼応。当初は毛利軍による兵糧援助もあって2年近く三木城を支えたが,村重が敗れ,次いで秀吉が次第に支城を攻め落として三木城を孤立させつつ兵糧攻めを計ったため,城内では餓死する者が続出した。長治は城兵らの助命を条件に,兄弟と共に自害した。<参考文献>『兵庫県史』3巻

(石田晴男)

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