Nagatoshi Yamanaka

Japanese: 山中長俊 - やまなか・ながとし

Year of death: December 24, 1608 (February 10, 1608)
Year of birth: Tenbun 16 (1547)
A military commander in the Sengoku period. The Yamanaka clan was a retainer of the Muromachi shogunate, based in Yamanakamura and Kashiwagi Mikuriya in Koga County, Omi (Shiga Prefecture). Nagatoshi's father, who was the deputy governor of Settsu-Kake County under Hosokawa Harumoto, is thought to have become a retainer of the Omi Rokkaku clan after Harumoto's downfall. In 1573, after being attacked by Oda Nobunaga, he helped Rokkaku Shosada (Yoshikata), who had holed up in Ishibe Castle, escape to Shigaraki, and Nagatoshi, who continued to follow the Rokkaku clan, whose power had declined, was dismissed by Shosada out of consideration for him. After serving Shibata Katsuie and Niwa Nagahide, he was summoned by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, where he served as a solicitor and right-hand man. In 1593, he became the governor of Yamashiro Province. He became the deputy governor of Echizen Kitabukuro Silver Mine and other areas, and in the following year, he was given 10,000 koku of rice. He wrote Chugoku Nihon Jiranki (Record of the Warring of Japanese Clan in the Middle Ages) at Hideyoshi's command. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he was on the side of Mitsunari Ishida, but was later pardoned and became a member of Ieyasu Tokugawa's vassals.

(Haruo Ishida)

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Japanese:

没年：慶長12.12.24(1608.2.10)
生年：天文16(1547)
戦国時代の武将。山中氏は近江(滋賀県)甲賀郡山中村,柏木御厨を本拠とする室町幕府御家人で,細川晴元のもと摂津闕郡の守護代であった長俊の父は,晴元の没落により近江六角氏の家臣となったと思われる。天正1(1573)年,織田信長に攻められ石部城に籠城した六角承禎(義賢)を信楽に脱出させ,その後も権勢の衰えた六角氏に従おうとする長俊を思いやり,承禎は強いてこれに暇を出した。柴田勝家,丹羽長秀に仕えたのち豊臣秀吉に召し出され,奏者,右筆を務める。文禄2(1593)年山城守。越前北袋銀山などの代官となり,同4年1万石を与えられた。秀吉の命で『中古日本治乱記』を著す。関ケ原の戦では石田三成方にあったが,のちに許され徳川家康の御咄衆となった。<参考文献>桑田忠親『豊臣秀吉の研究』

(石田晴男)

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