Yukan Matsui

Japanese: 松井友閑 - まつい・ゆうかん

Years of birth: unknown Years of birth and death: unknown A military commander during the Azuchi-Momoyama period. His origins are unknown, but it is said that Oda Nobunaga selected him from Kiyosu as a retainer. He served as a close aide, playing a key role in negotiations with temples, shrines, and various feudal lords, and is known for his work in negotiating with temples, shrines, and feudal lords, such as in 1574 when Nobunaga ordered the removal of the Ranjatai from the Shosoin Repository of Todaiji Temple, and in the following year acting as an intermediary for Miyoshi Yasunaga's surrender and mediating peace with Hongan-ji Temple. In the same year, Matsunaga Hisahide rebelled, and in the same year, Araki Murashige rebelled, and in both cases, Tomokan was responsible for pacifying them. In the Shincho-kōki, he appears under the name of Miyauchikyō Hoin from around 1575. In 1578, he also negotiated with Kennyo's side as a representative of Nobunaga's side in peace negotiations with Hongan-ji Temple, and made concrete moves to seize the temple. After the Honnoji Incident in 1582, he served Toyotomi Hideyoshi and was in charge of governing temples and shrines in Kyoto and the Settsu area. His whereabouts are unknown after the record in the Tamonin Diary that he was dismissed from his position as Sakai no Mandokoro by Hideyoshi on June 14, 1582.

(Tetsuo Owada)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
安土桃山時代の武将。出自は不詳だが,清須の町人だったのを織田信長が抜擢して家臣に加えたといわれている。側近として仕え,特に寺社や諸大名との折衝に役割を果たし,天正2(1574)年,信長による東大寺正倉院の蘭奢待切り取りの奉行,翌年の三好康長の投降取次や本願寺との和睦斡旋などの働きがみられる。また同5年の松永久秀の謀反,6年の荒木村重の謀反など,いずれも友閑が慰撫に当たっている。『信長公記』には,天正5年あたりから宮内卿法印の名で出てくる。天正8年,本願寺との講和交渉においても信長方の代表として顕如方との交渉に当たっており,接収に具体的に動いている。天正10年の本能寺の変後,豊臣秀吉に仕え,京および摂津周辺にある寺社関係の支配に当たった。天正14年6月14日,秀吉によって堺政所を罷免されたことが『多聞院日記』に記されているのを最後に,その後の消息がわからなくなる。

(小和田哲男)

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