Harunaga Ohno - Harunaga Ohno

Japanese: 大野治長 - おおの・はるなが

Year of death: 1615.6.4 (Genna 1.5.8)
Year of birth: Unknown A military commander in the Azuchi-Momoyama period, vassal of the Toyotomi clan. Commonly known as Shuri-no-jo. Son of Okurakyo-no-tsubone, who was Hideyoshi's concubine Yodo-dono's wet nurse (Hideyori's birth mother) and later became a maid. Served as Hideyoshi's horseman, and shared in the construction of Fushimi Castle in 1594. At the time, he was awarded 10,000 koku and was appointed as a chamberlain of the fifth rank. After Hideyoshi's death, he served Hideyori closely and became the captain of the second guard, but in September 1599, he was arrested along with Asano Nagamasa and Hijikata Yukihisa on suspicion of attempting to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Harunaga was exiled to Yuki in Shimotsuke (Tochigi Prefecture). However, he was pardoned shortly after Ishida Mitsunari and others raised an army the following year, and fought bravely on the eastern side in the Battle of Sekigahara. He later served the Toyotomi clan again, assisting Hideyori, and became a central figure after Katagiri Katsumoto was held responsible for the Hokoji Temple Bell Inscription Incident and fled Osaka in October of the same year. During the Winter Siege of Osaka that took place at the end of the same year, he worked hard with Oda Urakusai to negotiate a ceasefire. During the Summer Siege of Osaka the following year, 1615, he helped Ieyasu's granddaughter Senhime, who had become Hideyori's wife, escape and attempted to spare the lives of Hideyori and Yodo-dono by committing seppuku himself, but this was not accepted, so on May 8th, he committed suicide in Yamazato Castle along with Hideyori and Yodo-dono. His age at death is unknown, but if we take the theory that he was the same age as Yodo-dono, he would have been 49 years old. There is also a theory that he had an affair with Yodo-dono, and there is a document in the "Hagi-han Bakueroku" that states that Harunaga was entrusted to Ukita Hideie for an affair, but this is not true. Furthermore, the Meiryo Hongan states that both Tsurumatsu (Hideyoshi's first son) and Hideyori were illegitimate children of Yodo-dono and Harunaga, but this is also hard to believe.

(Kenichi Niki)

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

Japanese:

没年：元和1.5.8(1615.6.4)
生年：生年不詳
安土桃山時代の武将,豊臣家の臣。通称は修理亮。秀吉の側室淀殿(秀頼の生母)の乳母でのちに侍女となった大蔵卿局の子。秀吉の馬廻として仕え,文禄3(1594)年伏見城の工事を分担。当時1万石を領し,従五位下侍従に叙任されていた。秀吉の死後,秀頼に近侍して警護2番衆の隊長となるが,慶長4(1599)年9月,浅野長政,土方雄久らと共に徳川家康暗殺未遂事件の容疑で捕らえられ,治長は下野(栃木県)結城に追放された。しかし翌5年,石田三成らの挙兵後まもなく赦免され,関ケ原の戦では東軍に属して奮闘した。その後再び豊臣家に仕えて秀頼を補佐し,ことに同19年10月,片桐且元が方広寺鐘銘事件の責任を問われて大坂より退去したあとは中心的人物となった。同年暮れに起こった大坂冬の陣に際しては,織田有楽斎と共に停戦和議に尽力。翌元和1(1615)年の大坂夏の陣では,秀頼の室となっていた家康の孫千姫を脱出させ,自らの切腹をもって秀頼,淀殿の助命を画策したが容れられず,5月8日山里郭において秀頼,淀殿に殉じて自害した。享年は不詳であるが,淀殿と同じ年であったとする説をとれば49歳であった。なお,淀殿との密通説があり,『萩藩閥閲録』には治長が密通の罪により宇喜多秀家に預けられたと記す文書もみられるが,事実ではない。また『明良洪範』は鶴松(秀吉の第1子)も秀頼も共に淀殿と治長の不義の子とするが,これも信じ難い。

(二木謙一)

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