Naotsune Momoi - Momonoi Tadatsune

Japanese: 桃井直常 - もものい・ただつね

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. Military commander during the Northern and Southern Court period. Son of Sadayori. Hyogo no Suke, Suruga no Kami, Osakabu no Daifu, Uma Gon no Kami, and Harima no Kami. When Kitabatake Akiie, who was on the side of Emperor Godaigo, attacked from Mutsu in 1337, he pursued them following Ashikaga Takauji's second son Yoshiakira, and the following year achieved the feat of defeating them in Nara. It is said that he turned against Takauji and joined Tadayoshi's side during the Kan'o Disturbance in 1350 because Takanao Moronao ignored his achievements, but it was shortly after this that he became Shugo of Wakasa (Fukui Prefecture). He later served as Shugo of Iga (Mie Prefecture), and in 1344 he became Shugo of Etchu (Toyama Prefecture) and made the area his base. During the Kan'o Disturbance, he consistently played a central role in the Naoyoshi faction, and in January 1920, he led a large army from Etchu into Kyoto and drove out Takauji and Yoshiakira, father and son. In February of the following year, Takauji and Naoyoshi made a peace agreement, and when Naoyoshi took control of the shogunate, he was appointed as the head of the Inketsuke. However, when Naoyoshi fled to Echizen in August of the same year, he opposed peace negotiations with Takauji to the very end, and even after Naoyoshi was killed, he maintained his influence in Etchu by allying with the Yamana clan and other Naofyu factions and the Southern Court forces, and in 1920, he entered Kyoto and pursued Takauji to Omi. In 1921, he was defeated by the Muromachi Shogunate forces in Etchu, and fled via Kyoto to the Kanto Kanrei Ashikaga Motouji, but when Motouji died in 1928, he became a monk and submitted to the shogunate, and his younger brother Naonobu was appointed as Etchu Shugo in place of the deposed Shiba clan. However, when the Shiba clan returned to the shogunate the following year, he was oppressed again and fled to Echigo in 1591. After fighting for three years against Shiba Yoshimasa, who became the governor of the province in place of Naonobu, he was defeated and never heard from again.

(Akira Kawamura)

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

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
南北朝時代の武将。貞頼の子。兵庫助,駿河守,刑部大輔,右馬権頭,播磨守。建武4/延元2(1337)年陸奥から後醍醐天皇方の北畠顕家が攻め上った際,足利尊氏の次男義詮に従ってこれを追撃し,翌年奈良に破る勲功をあげた。その功を高師直が無視したために,観応1/正平5(1350)年の観応の擾乱では尊氏に反して直義方に走ったともいわれるが,若狭(福井県)守護になったのはこの直後である。その後伊賀(三重県)守護を経て,康永3/興国5(1344)年に越中(富山県)守護となってからはここを本拠とする。観応の擾乱では一貫して直義党の中核を担い,観応2/正平6年1月には越中から大軍を率いて入京し,尊氏・義詮父子を追い出した。翌2月尊氏,直義が和睦し直義が幕政を握ると引付頭人に起用されている。しかし同年8月直義が越前に逃げると,このときの尊氏との和睦交渉には最後まで反対し,直義が殺されたあとも山名氏ら直冬党,南朝勢力と結んで越中に勢力を保ち,文和4/正平10年には入京して尊氏を近江に追った。貞治1/正平17年越中で室町幕府軍に敗れ,京都を経て関東管領足利基氏のもとに逃れるが,貞治5/正平21年に基氏が死ぬと,出家して幕府に帰順し,越中守護には失脚した斯波氏に代わって弟直信が任じられた。しかし,翌年斯波氏が幕府に復帰すると再び圧迫を受けて,応安1/正平23年越中に逃げた。直信に代わって同国守護となった斯波義将と3年間戦った末敗れ,以後消息を絶つ。<参考文献>『富山県史/通史編』Ⅱ

(河村昭一)

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