Nobutaka Oda

Japanese: 織田信孝 - おだ・のぶたか

Year of death: Tensho 11.5.2 (1583.6.21)
Year of birth: Eiroku 1 (1558)
A military commander in the Azuchi-Momoyama period. The third son of Oda Nobunaga. His childhood name was Sanshichi. He was born about 20 days before Nobuo, who was said to be the second son, but there is a theory that Nobuo was the older brother because his mother was a concubine of Nobunaga's, the Saka family. Like Nobuo, in 1568, he was adopted by Kobe Tonomori, a powerful clansman in northern Ise, at the command of his father Nobunaga, and took the name Kobe. In January 1571, he took over as head of the family when Tonomori retired, and the Kobe territory was incorporated into the Oda territory. After that, he participated in Nobunaga's major battles, such as the battle against the Ikko Ikki in Ise Nagashima in 1574, and the battle against the Echizen Ikko Ikki the following year. At the time of the Honnoji Incident in 1581, Nobutaka was in Osaka to cross the sea as the supreme commander of the attack on Shikoku. When news of the incident reached Osaka, Akechi Mitsuhide's son-in-law Tsuda Nobusumi was also in the area, but Nobutaka first killed him and then led his troops to join Hideyoshi's forces. Nobutaka had hoped to be appointed head of the Oda clan at the Kiyosu Conference, but when this did not come to fruition, he gradually became more closely allied with Shibata Katsuie, who was also dissatisfied, and barricaded himself in Gifu Castle to resist Toyotomi Hideyoshi. However, when Gifu Castle was besieged, Nobutaka tried to save the situation by offering his mother, the Saka clan, as a hostage. After Katsuie was defeated and committed suicide in the Battle of Shizugatake in April of the following year, Nobukatsu, at the urging of his older brother Nobuo, surrendered Gifu Castle and was imprisoned in the Noma Inland Sea at the tip of the Chita Peninsula in Owari, where he was eventually forced to commit seppuku. <References> Owada Tetsuo, "People of the Oda Clan"

(Tetsuo Owada)

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没年：天正11.5.2(1583.6.21)
生年：永禄1(1558)
安土桃山時代の武将。織田信長の3男。幼名は三七。次男とされる信雄より出生は20日ほど早かったが,母が信長の側室坂氏だったため,信雄の方を兄にしたとする説もある。信雄と同じように,永禄11(1568)年,父信長の命令で北伊勢の豪族神戸具盛の養子となり,神戸氏を称した。元亀2(1571)年正月,具盛の隠退により家督を継ぎ,神戸領は織田領に組みこまれる。以後,天正2(1574)年の伊勢長島一向一揆との戦,翌年の越前一向一揆との戦など,信長の戦いの主なものには出陣している。天正10年の本能寺の変のとき,信孝は四国攻めの総大将として渡海するため大坂にいた。変報が届いたとき,大坂には明智光秀の聟津田信澄もいたが,まずこれを殺し,兵を率いて秀吉の軍勢に合流している。信孝は清洲会議で織田家の家督として指名される希望を持っていたが,かなわなかったので,次第に同じく不満を持つ柴田勝家と強く結びつくようになり,岐阜城に籠もって豊臣秀吉に抵抗した。ところが,岐阜城を包囲されると信孝は母の坂氏を人質に出し,その場をとりつくろう。翌11年4月の賤ケ岳の戦で勝家が敗れ自刃したあと,兄信雄の勧めで岐阜城を開城し,尾張知多半島の突端,野間の内海に幽閉され,結局,切腹させられている。<参考文献>小和田哲男『織田家の人びと』

(小和田哲男)

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