Asakura Takakage Articles - Asakura Takakage Articles

Japanese: 朝倉孝景条々 - あさくらたかかげじょうじょう

This is a family precept established by Asakura Takakage (also known as Norihide, Shigekage, or Toshikage; Buddhist name Eirin Muneo), a feudal lord in the Sengoku period of Echizen Province. It is believed to have been established in 1471-1481, during Takakage's later years. The Kurokawa edition has the title "Asakura Eirin Kabegaki (Wall Inscription on the Wall)," the Arai Hakuseki edition has the title "A Letter to the Descendants of Asakura Eirin Nyudo (Asakura Eirin Nyudo Shisonhe Issho)," and the Gunsho Ruiju has the title "Seventeen Articles of Asakura Toshikage (Asakura Toshikage Juushikajo)." The precepts consist of 17 articles, with the Kurokawa edition having 16. The contents of the document include appointing people to important positions such as Shukuro regardless of family status, prohibiting anyone other than the Asakura clan from building castles, and forcing their vassals to live in Ichijodani near the castle, all of which reflect the centralized power of the Asakura clan as a warring states lord.

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Japanese:

越前国の戦国大名朝倉孝景（教景・繁景・敏景とも。法名英林宗雄）が定めた家訓。制定の年代は孝景晩年の1471年−1481年とみられる。黒川本は〈朝倉英林壁書(あさくらえいりんかべがき)〉，新井白石本は〈朝倉英林入道子孫へ一書(あさくらえいりんにゅうどうしそんへいっしょ)〉，《群書類従》は〈朝倉敏景十七箇条(あさくらとしかげじゅうしちかじょう)〉の題を付すなど，諸本により種々の表題を持つ。条文は17ヵ条，黒川本のみ16ヵ条から成る。内容は，宿老(しゅくろう)などの要職には家格によらず人材を登用すること，朝倉氏以外の者の城郭構築を禁じ，城下一乗谷(いちじょうだに)へ家臣を集住させることなど，朝倉氏の戦国大名としての集権性がうかがえる。

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