Ranmaru Mori - Mori Ranmaru

Japanese: 森蘭丸 - もり・らんまる

Year of death: June 7, 1582 (June 26, 1582)
Year of birth: Eiroku 8? (1565)
A close attendant to Oda Nobunaga. The third son of Kanenari. His mother was Myoko-ni, the daughter of Hayashi Michiyasu. He was the younger brother of Nagayoshi and the older brother of Tadamasa. He was born in Kanayama, Mino Province (Gifu Prefecture). He served Nobunaga from an early age and was his favorite. In the Shincho-kōki and other sources, he appears as an intermediary when Nobunaga gave rewards to his retainers from around 1579, and is considered to have been highly valued as an interpreter. As for his real name, there is a theory based on the Kansei Shōshū Shōkafu and other sources that he took one character of Nobunaga's given name and called himself Nagasada, but a letter remaining in the Kongōji documents reads "Moriran Naritoshi," so Naritoshi is correct. Furthermore, as the letter was an attachment to Nobunaga's black seal letter, it is clear that he also served as the magistrate for the letter. On April 20, 1546, he was given 500 koku in Omi, and in March 1547, after the downfall of the Takeda clan, he was given 50,000 koku in Mino Kanayama. In June of the same year, during the Honnoji Incident, he took up a spear and fought in the defense, dying alongside his younger brothers Bomaru and Chikaramaru for Nobunaga. He was 18 years old. <References> Takahiro Okuno, "Research on the Documents of Oda Nobunaga, Revised and Enlarged Edition"

(Hasegawa Hiromichi)

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

Japanese:

没年：天正10.6.7(1582.6.26)
生年：永禄8?(1565)
織田信長の近習。可成の3男。母は林通安の娘,妙向尼。長可の弟,忠政の兄。美濃国(岐阜県)金山に生まれる。幼少より信長に近侍し寵愛された。『信長公記』などには天正7(1579)年ごろより,信長が家臣などに褒賞を与える際の取り次ぎ役として現れ,奏者として重用されていたことがうかがわれる。実名については『寛政重修諸家譜』などから,信長の諱の1字をもらい長定と名乗っていたとする説もあるが,『金剛寺文書』に残る書状には「森乱成利」とあり成利が正しい。また同書状が信長黒印状の添状であったことから,その加判奉行をも務めていたことがわかる。同9年4月20日近江に500石を与えられ,同10年3月,武田氏の滅亡後は美濃金山5万石を与えられた。同年6月本能寺の変に際しては槍をとって防戦に当たり,弟坊丸・力丸と共に信長に殉じた。18歳という。<参考文献>奥野高広『新訂増補/織田信長文書の研究』

(長谷川弘道)

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