Tokitsugu Yamashina

Japanese: 山科言継 - やましな・ときつぐ

Year of death: 2 March 1579 (March 28, 1579)
Year of birth: 4th April 26th, 1507 (6th June 1507)
A nobleman in the Sengoku period. His Buddhist name was Akigen and his Buddhist name was Gesshin. His father was Yamashina Totsuna, his biological mother was Nyojin, and his adoptive mother was the daughter of Nakamikado Nobutane. He came of age in 1520 and became the head of the family, and in 1537 he was promoted to Junior Third Rank, in 1537 he was promoted to Councillor, in 1538 he was promoted to Gon Chunagon, and in 1569 he became the first member of the Yamashina family to become Gon Dainagon, and in 1574 he was promoted to Shonii. As the hereditary head of the family, he provided clothing for the Imperial Court, and worked with the Takakura family in the art of clothing and dressing in court attire, and also served as the court's magistrate for music and the court's waka-gokai magistrate. He also had specialized medical knowledge, and examined and prescribed medicine for his acquaintances and neighboring townspeople. In 1552, he traveled to Owari (Aichi Prefecture) together with Asukai Masatsuna to teach kemari and waka poetry to the Oda clan and their retainers, and in 1556, he traveled to Fuchu, Suruga (Shizuoka Prefecture) to visit his foster mother, where he interacted with Imagawa Yoshimoto and his retainers. In 1558, in order to support the increasingly impoverished Imperial Court's economy, he requested Kitabatake Tomochika and Tomofusa of Ise to donate 30 kanmon to the Imperial Court, and in 1559, he visited Oda Nobunaga in Gifu and, together with Tokugawa Ieyasu of Mikawa, made them donate 200 kanmon to cover the costs of the memorial service for the thirteenth anniversary of Emperor Gonara's death. Tokitsugu's diary, "Tokitsugu-kyo-ki" (1527-1576), which includes an account of Nobunaga's visit to Kyoto (1568), is an important historical document and shows Tokitsugu's down-to-earth character. He also copied the "Kugyo Bonin" and compiled the "Rekimyo Dodai," a list of appointments to the 4th and 5th ranks. His grave is at Seijoka-in Temple in Kyoto.

(Masako Ito)

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Japanese:

没年：天正7.3.2(1579.3.28)
生年：永正4.4.26(1507.6.6)
戦国時代の公卿。法名は昭言,道号は月岑。父は山科言綱,実母は女嬬で,養母は中御門宣胤の娘。永正17(1520)年元服して内蔵頭となり,天文6(1537)年従三位,同7年参議,同13年に権中納言,永禄12(1569)年には山科家ではじめて権大納言となり,天正2(1574)年に正二位となった。山科家世襲の内蔵頭の職掌上,朝廷に御服を調進し,高倉家と共に衣紋道を家職として公家装束の着装を行い,朝廷の楽奉行,和歌御会奉行も務めた。また,医薬の専門知識を持っており,知人や近所の町衆などに診察,投薬を行っている。天文2年には尾張(愛知県)に下向して飛鳥井雅綱と共に蹴鞠,和歌を織田氏の一族や家臣に伝授し,弘治2(1556)年に養母を訪ねて駿河(静岡県)府中に下向し,今川義元とその家臣たちと交流している。窮乏化する朝廷の経済を支えるために,永禄1(1558)年伊勢の北畠具教,具房に朝廷への30貫文の献上を要請,同12年には岐阜の織田信長を訪れ,三河の徳川家康ともども後奈良天皇十三回忌の法会の費用200貫文を献上させた。信長上洛(1568)などの記事もある言継の日記の『言継卿記』(1527～76)は重要史料であり,言継の庶民的な性格が表れているといえる。また,『公卿補任』などの書写を行い,四・五位の補任一覧である『歴名土代』を編集した。墓は京都の清浄華院にある。<参考文献>奥野高広『言継卿記/転換期の貴族生活』

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