Kagechika Oba

Japanese: 大庭景親 - おおば・かげちか

Year of death: October 26, 1180 (November 15, 1180)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. A military commander in the late Heian period. Saburo. A member of the Kanmu Heishi clan. His ancestor was Kamakura Gongoro Kagemasa. His descendants were the head priests of Oba Mikuriya in Sagami for generations. His father was Kagemune. He served his older brother Kageyoshi and Minamoto no Yoshitomo in the Hogen Rebellion (1156) and played an active role. His older brother, who had been at odds with him for some time, continued to ally with the Minamoto clan even after the Heiji Rebellion (1159), but Kagechika, who was temporarily taken prisoner, was spared by the efforts of the Taira clan, and in gratitude he joined the Taira clan. He gave Taira no Kiyomori a fine horse and served as a guardian of the eastern provinces. In 1180, he was mobilized to fight against Prince Mochihito and Minamoto no Yorimasa, who had raised an army, and heard from Ito Tadayasu, the head samurai of the Heike clan for the eastern provinces, that Minamoto no Yoritomo was plotting a rebellion. The first report of Yoritomo's uprising in August of the same year reached Kiyomori from Kagechika. As the commander of the Taira forces in Sagami, he defeated Yoritomo's forces at Ishibashiyama together with his brother Matano Kagehisa. However, Yoritomo fled to Awa, and in October of the same year, he led the armies of Boso and Musashi, entered Kamakura, and advanced further into Suruga. Kagechika was blocked when he tried to join the Taira forces heading eastward, and fled to Kawamurayama. Kagehisa fled to Kyoto, but Kagechika surrendered to Yoritomo, who was stationed at Kisegawa, and his original territory was confiscated. Kagechika, who was left in the custody of Kazusa Hirotsune, was beheaded by Kageyoshi at Katasegawa, on the orders of Yoritomo.

(Yuyama Manabu)

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Japanese:

没年：治承4.10.26(1180.11.15)
生年：生年不詳
平安後期の武将。三郎。桓武平氏。先祖は鎌倉権五郎景正。子孫は代々相模大庭御厨の庄司。父は景宗。保元の乱(1156)に兄景義と源義朝に従い活躍。以前から不和であった兄は,平治の乱(1159)後も源氏に通じたが,一時囚人となった景親は平家の計らいで助命され,その恩義で平家に属した。平清盛に名馬を贈り,東国の御後見を勤めた。治承4(1180)年挙兵した以仁王,源頼政との戦いに動員され,平家の東国侍別当伊藤忠清に源頼朝謀反の企てを聞く。同年8月の頼朝挙兵の第一報は景親から清盛に届く。相模の平家勢の大将として弟俣野景久と石橋山で頼朝勢を破る。しかし,安房に逃れた頼朝は,同年10月房総・武蔵の軍勢を率いて鎌倉に入り,さらに駿河へ進出。景親は東国へ下向する平家勢と合流しようとして行く手をふさがれ,河村山に逃げ入る。景久は京都へ逃れたが,景親は黄瀬川在陣の頼朝に降参,本領は没収。上総広常に預けられた景親は,頼朝に命ぜられた景義によって固瀬川辺で斬首された。

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