Takakuni Hosokawa

Japanese: 細川高国 - ほそかわ・たかくに

Year of death: 8 June 1531 (21 July 1531)
Year of birth: Bunmei 16 (1484)
A military commander in the Muromachi period and Kanrei of the Muromachi Shogunate. Commonly known as Rokuro. Junior Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Ukyo no daifu. Musashi no Kami. Buddhist name Doei, Tsunekan. Buddhist name Matsugaku. Son of Masaharu. In the dispute between Sumiyuki and Sumimoto over the succession of Hosokawa Masamoto, he sided with Sumimoto and killed Sumiyuki in August 1507. However, in April of the following year, he allied himself with local lords such as Itami Motosuke and Naito Sadamasa and banished Sumimoto to Omi. In the same month, together with Ouchi Yoshioki of Suo (Yamaguchi Prefecture), he welcomed the former Shogun Ashikaga Yoshitada (Yoshinari) to Sakai, and when Yoshitada returned to the position of Shogun, he was appointed Ukyo no daifu and Kanrei, and supported him together with Sakyo no daifu Yoshioki. When Yoshioki returned to Japan in 1512, he allowed Miyoshi Yukinaga, who supported Sumimoto, to enter Kyoto temporarily, but later recaptured it. In 1521, he deposed Shogun Yoshitane and supported Yoshiharu, the son of the previous Shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi. However, in 1526, due to slanderous accusations by Hosokawa Tadanobu, Kozai Motomori was killed, which led to Motomori's brother Hatano Tanemichi and Yanagimoto Kenji raising an army, and Miyoshi Katsunaga and Masanaga landing in Sakai from Awa Province. Then, Yukinaga's grandson Motonaga landed in Sakai with Ashikaga Yoshitsuna and Hosokawa Harumoto (the son of Sumimoto), and Takakuni's government collapsed. In June 1531, he was defeated by Miyoshi Motonaga at Tennoji in Settsu Province and fled to a merchant's house in Amagasaki, but was captured and committed suicide.

(Kyoji Morita)

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Japanese:

没年：享禄4.6.8(1531.7.21)
生年：文明16(1484)
室町時代の武将,室町幕府管領。通称六郎。民部少輔。右京大夫。武蔵守。法名道永,常桓。道号松岳。政春の子。細川政元の家督相続を巡る澄之,澄元の争いでは澄元に味方し,永正4(1507)年8月澄之を滅ぼした。しかし翌年4月には,伊丹元扶,内藤貞正らの国人を味方に澄元を近江に追放。同月,周防(山口県)大内義興と共に前将軍足利義尹(義稙)を堺に迎え,義尹が将軍に復帰すると,右京大夫,管領に任じられ,左京大夫義興と共にこれを支えた。同15年義興が帰国すると,澄元を擁する三好之長に一時入京を許すが,その後奪回。大永1(1521)年には将軍義稙を廃し,前将軍足利義澄の子義晴を擁立した。しかし,同6年,細川尹賢の讒言により香西元盛を殺害したため,元盛の兄弟波多野稙通,柳本賢治が挙兵,さらに阿波国から三好勝長・政長が堺に上陸し,やがて之長の孫元長が足利義維と細川晴元(澄元の子)を擁して堺に上陸するにおよび,高国政権は崩壊した。享禄4(1531)年6月,摂津国天王寺で三好元長に敗れて尼崎の商家に逃げ込んだが,捕らえられ、自刃した。

(森田恭二)

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