Araki Murashige
Araki Murashige | |
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荒木 村重 | |
Itami castle | |
In office 1574–1579 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1535 |
Died | June 20, 1586 |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Settsu-Ikeda clan Oda clan |
Rank | Daimyo |
Battles/wars | Battle of Shiraigawara (1571) Siege of Itami (1574) Siege of Ishiyama-Honganji (1576) Siege of Miki (1578) Siege of Itami (1579) Siege of Hanakuma (1580) |
Araki Murashige (荒木 村重, 1535 – June 20, 1586) was a retainer of Ikeda Katsumasa, head of the powerful "Setssu-Ikeda clan" of Settsu Province. Under Katsumasa, Murashige sided with Oda Nobunaga following Nobunaga's successful campaign to establish power in Kyoto.
Military life
Murashige became a retainer of
In 1571, Murashige and
In 1574, Murashige along with Hashiba Hideyoshi capture Arioka Castle (Itami castle) from Itami Chikaoki and Nobunaga given Itami castle to Murashige.
In 1576, he commanded part of Nobunaga's army in the ten-year
Araki escaped from the
In 1580, Ikeda Tsuneoki beat Murashige at Siege of Hanakuma castle, who locked himself in the castle. Ultimately, he escaped and defected to the Mori clan. Later Tsuneoki was given Murashige's domain.
Tale
There is a semi-legendary tale told about Araki's creative use of a
His son, raised under his mother's name, was the artist Iwasa Matabei.
Popular culture
- Honobu Yonezawa's Naoki Prize-winning novel "Kokurō-jō" tells the story of Murashige during the siege of Itami.[5]
References
- ^ Ueda, Sōkei (2016). The Ueda Sōko Tradition of Chanoyu. Hiroshima Bunko. p. 32.
- ^ Papinot, Edmond (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon (in French). pp. 863, 498, 662.
- ISBN 1854095234.
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- ^ "『黒牢城』米澤穂信著 籠城戦が密室ミステリーに". Sankei Shimbun. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- Ratti, Oscar and Adele Westbrook (1973). Secrets of the Samurai. Edison, NJ: Castle Books.