Hojo Ujinao

Japanese: 北条氏直 - ほうじょう・うじなお

Year of death: November 4, 1591 (December 19, 1591)
Year of birth: 1562
A military commander in the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Lord of Odawara Castle in Sagami. Son of Ujiyasu and the daughter of Takeda Harunobu (Shingen). Childhood name was Kokuomaru, commonly known as Shinkuro. Sakyo-no-dayu. His Buddhist title was Kenshosai. In May 1569, he was adopted by Imagawa Ujizane, who was staying with his father Ujiyasu, and was given the province of Suruga. Later, on August 19, 1580, while facing off against Takeda Katsuyori at Kisegawa in Suruga, he succeeded Ujiyasu as head of the family and became the fifth head of the family. Immediately after the Honnoji Incident in June of the same year, he attacked Takigawa Kazumasu, a subordinate of Oda Nobunaga and the Kanto Kanrei, at Umabashi Castle in Kozuke, and drove him out of Kanto. He then pacified the Ogata and Saku regions of Shinano, and advanced into Kai. He fought with Tokugawa Ieyasu over control of the Takeda clan's former territory, and faced him off at Wakamiko. In October of the same year, he concluded a peace treaty on the condition that he would retain possession of Ueno and marry Ieyasu's daughter, Tokuhime, and in August of the following year, he married Tokuhime. In the 17th year, he was involved in the seizure of Nago Castle, which led to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's attack on Odawara the following year. He surrendered on July 5th and was exiled to Mount Koya, but was pardoned in February of the following year, given 10,000 koku, and moved to Osaka. He died there. This ended the direct line of the family. He was also abandoned by his father-in-law, Ieyasu, on whom he had relied.

(Sawaki Eiichi)

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没年：天正19.11.4(1591.12.19)
生年：永禄5(1562)
安土桃山時代の武将。相模小田原城主。氏政と武田晴信(信玄)の娘の子。幼名は国王丸,通称新九郎。左京大夫。斎号は見性斎。永禄12(1569)年5月,父氏政に身を寄せる今川氏真の養子となり,駿河国を譲られ,のち武田勝頼と駿河黄瀬川で対陣中の天正8(1580)年8月19日,氏政の家督を継いで5代目当主となる。同10年6月の本能寺の変の直後,織田信長の部将で関東管領であった滝川一益を上野厩橋城に攻め,関東から駆逐。さらに信濃小県・佐久地方を平定して甲斐に進出。武田氏旧領の支配を巡って徳川家康と争い,若神子で対陣した。同年10月,上野の領有と家康の娘督姫との婚姻を条件に講和を結び,翌11年8月督姫と結婚。同17年に名胡桃城奪取事件を起こし,翌年の豊臣秀吉による小田原攻めを招く。7月5日に降伏し高野山に追放されたが,翌19年2月に赦免され,1万石を与えられて大坂に移った。同地で死去。これにより嫡流は断絶。頼りにした岳父家康からも見捨てられている。

(佐脇栄智)

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