Honjo Shigenaga

A military commander from the Sengoku period to the early Edo period. Yajiro. Echizen no Kami. The eldest son of Honjo Fusanaga, the lord of Honjo, Koizumi-sho, Iwafune-gun, Echigo Province (present-day Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture). In 1551 (Tenbun 20), he recovered Honjo Castle (Murakami Castle), which had been taken by his uncle Ogawa Nagasuke, and became the lord of Honjo. In 1563 (Eiroku 6), he joined Uesugi Kenshin and participated in the Kanto campaign, achieving military success, but in 1568 he allied with Takeda Shingen, leading to an attack by Kenshin and a conflict. In the Otate War after Kenshin's death, he sided with Uesugi Kagekatsu, and even under Kagekatsu, he maintained the greatest power in Kaetsu. He was in conflict with Mogami Yoshiaki, who was trying to expand into the Shonai region, but in 1589 (Tensho 17) Toyotomi Hideyoshi ruled over Shonai, officially recognizing Shigenaga's rule. However, the following year Hideyoshi ordered Kagekatsu to punish Shonai. When the Dewa Senboku Rebellion broke out in 1591, Shigenaga was suspected of plotting an uprising and was stripped of his title and placed under house arrest in Yamato. In 1592 (Bunroku 1), he was pardoned and took part in the invasion of Korea, once again serving Kagekatsu. When Hideyoshi transferred Kagekatsu to Aizu in 1598 (Keicho 3), he followed suit and became the lord of Moriyama Castle in Tamura County, Mutsu, and was given a stipend of 10,000 koku. In the Battle of Aizuguchi, a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara, he harassed the Tokugawa Date clan as the lord of Fukushima Castle in Shinobu County, but after the war, when Kagekatsu was transferred to Yonezawa, Shigenaga's territory was reduced to one third. He died at Fukushima Castle in 1615, at the age of 74. The documents handed down through the Honjo family are held by the Hokkaido Prefectural Archives.

[Ryuzo Kigoshi]

"Honjo and Irobe Clan" by Sansei Watanabe (1987, Murakami Local History Research Group)" ▽ "Murakami City History: General History Vol. 1" (1999)

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戦国期から江戸初期の武将。弥次郎。越前守。越後国岩船郡小泉荘本庄（現、新潟県村上市）の領主本庄房長の長子。叔父小河長資に奪われた本庄城（村上城）を1551年（天文20）回復し本庄の領主となる。1563年（永禄6）に上杉謙信に属し関東出陣に参加し軍功をあげたが、1568年には武田信玄と結んだため謙信の攻撃を受け対立した。謙信死後の御館の乱(おたてのらん)では、上杉景勝(かげかつ)に味方し景勝の下でも下越(かえつ)随一の勢力を保持した。庄内地方に進出を図る最上義光(もがみよしあき)と対立したが、1589年（天正17）豊臣秀吉の裁定で繁長は庄内支配を公認された。しかし翌年秀吉は景勝に庄内仕置を命じた。1591年出羽仙北一揆(でわせんぼくいっき)が起こると、繁長は一揆画策を疑われて改易、大和に蟄居(ちっきょ)した。1592年（文禄元）の朝鮮陣に許されて参陣し再び景勝に仕えた。1598年（慶長3）秀吉により景勝が会津に転封(てんぽう)となると、これに従い陸奥(むつ)田村郡守山城代となり1万石を与えられた。関ヶ原の前哨戦である会津口の戦いでは、信夫郡(しのぶぐん)福島城主として徳川方の伊達氏を苦しめたが、戦後景勝が米沢に転封されると繁長の所領も3分の1となった。慶長18年福島城で没。74歳。本庄家に伝来した古文書等は北海道立公文書館が所蔵する。

［木越隆三］

『渡辺三省著『本庄氏と色部氏』（1987・村上郷土研究グループ）』▽『『村上市史　通史編1』（1999）』

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