Hayashi Narinaga

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Hayashi Narinaga
Native name
林 就長
Nickname(s)Hayashi Saburōzaemon Shigesato
(林三郎左衛門重眞)
Hayashi Moku-no-jō (林木工允)
Hayashi Tosa-no-kami (林土佐守)
Hayashi Hizen-no-kami (林肥前守)
Toyotomi no asomi Narinaga
(豊臣朝臣就長)
Dōhan (道範)
Born1517
Doi, Kawajiri, Bingo
DiedJuly 19, 1605 (aged 87 or 88)
Aka Castle, Bingo
AllegianceYukimatsu clan (行松氏)
Yamana clan
Mōri clan
　　Mōri Motonari
Toyotomi clan
　　Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Tokugawa clan
　　Tokugawa Ieyasu
RankNaifū (内府)
Honsa (本佐)
Yōtsugi (与次)
Ukyō (右京)
Moku-no-jō (木工允)
Lord of Matsuoka Castle (松岡城主)
Lord of Mukaiyama Castle (向山城主)
Lord of Aka Castle (赤城主)
Karō (家老 house elder)
Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守)
Tosa-no-kami (土佐守)
Hizen-no-kami (肥前守)
Toyotomi-no-asomi (豊臣朝臣)
Ju go-i-no-ge (従五位下)
Ginzan-Bugyō (銀山奉行)
Bugyō
Battles/wars
  • Siege of Toda Castle
  • Siege of Kozuki Castle
  • Kyūshū Campaign
  • Japanese invasions of Korea
  • Siege of Tachibana (1569)
  • Battle of Nunobeyama (1570)
  • ...many others
RelationsFather: Kikuchi Takenaga (菊池武長)
Mother: unknown

Hayashi Narinaga (林 就長, 1517 – July 19, 1605) was a

ji-samurai (koku-jin-ryōshū) of southern Bingo Province. He held many positions including karō (clan elder) serving Mōri Motonari and his father Mōri Hiromoto in diplomatic missions with Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Narinaga was a bugyō under Mōri Terumoto. From Hideyoshi he received the rank of Hizen-no-kami (肥前守). He served as diplomat between the Mōri and Hideyoshi.[1] Later he was bestowed the 5th court rank, junior grade Ju go-i-no-ge (従五位). The character "nari, 就" came from his lord Mōri Motonari and "naga, 長" from his father Kikuchi Takenaga. Narinaga was one of the few to live through all the Sengoku period.[1 1]

Early life and background

Hayashi Narinaga was born 1517 in Doi (土), Kawajiri (川尻), Bingo Province, today part of Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Narinaga's childhood name is unknown. His birth year is only known from his recorded age at death which was 89 years. In Japan an infant is one year old at birth so in Western years he was 88 years old. His father was Kikuchi Takenaga (菊池武長) and his mother is unknown but there is a tradition that she was a daughter of the Hayashi clan of Kawajiri. His father Takenaga was a descendant of the powerful Kikuchi clan that ruled Higo Province since the 11th century. The Kikuchi clan is believed to be descended from the kings of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.[2]

His father, Takenaga, came from a branch of the

Kyūshū.[3]

The

secede from their grasp.[4]

Retainer of the Mōri

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine (2018).
Narinaga's lord, Mōri Motonari.

In 1562 Odaka-jō fell to Sugihara Morishige (杉原盛重), a general of the Mōri clan. The Kikuchi clan of Hōki Province were vassals of the Yukimatsu clan so after their downfall they left to Bingo Province to become retainers of the Mōri clan under Mōri Motonari. At this time it seems that his father, Takenaga, was adopted into the Hayashi clan of Kawajiri and became known as Hayashi Moku-no-jō Michiaki (林木工允道明). The title Moku-no-jō (secretary of the Bureau of Carpentry) is passed down in the Hayashi clan for a few generations. There is a family tradition that Takenaga married the daughter of the Hayashi clan but there are no records to justify this.[5] There is a record from a tombstone that Hayashi Yajirō (林弥二郎) of Kawajiri died in 1552 and may be the father of his wife. The Hayashi clan of Kawajiri were powerful in the area.[6]

Narinaga may have been known at this time as Hayashi Saburōzaemon Shigesato (林三郎左衛門重眞). A man with this name was lord of Matsuoka Castle (松岡城) and it is known that later Narinaga was lord of this castle. He became a vassal of Mōri Motonari and was given the position of karō and also as the ginzan-bugyō (mining official) of Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine, a position he held until ca.1585. Other officials at the mine whom Narinaga would have known were Hirasa Nariyuki (平佐就之) and Ōhashi Hachizō (大橋八蔵).[7]'

After the death of his father in 1576 he inherited his title and became known as Hayashi Moku-no-jō (林木工允).[8]

Siege of Toda Castle

In July 1562 at the First

Siege of Toda Castle.[10]

Siege of Kōzuki Castle (1578)

The

Hashiba Hideyoshi the previous year and entrusted to Amago Katsuhisa. When it fell to Mōri Motonari, Katsuhisa committed suicide (seppuku) and his loyal and heroic general Yamanaka Yukimori was captured and killed in the battle. Yukimori was the samurai who had killed Narinaga's family member, Kikuchi Otohachi, many years before.[11]

Diplomat between Mori and Hideyoshi (1582)

In 1582 with the death of

Incident at Honnō-ji, Toyotomi Hideyoshi became the most powerful man in Japan. Hideyoshi rewarded Narinaga for his allegiance and merit in battle by making him lord of Mukaiyama Castle (Mukaiyama-jō, 向山城) in Gocho-gun, Bingo Province (today Mitsugi District, Hiroshima) and Matsuoka Castle (Matsuoka-jō, 松岡城) in Kōzan-cho, Sera-gun, Bingo Province. Matsuoka Castle originally belonged to the Matsuoka clan.[12]

In December, 1583 Narinaga was ordered by Hideyoshi to work on communications with the Mōri clan of the Chūgoku region. In 1584 Narinaga donated a statue depicting a seated Mōri Motonari to Chōan Temple (Chōan-ji) at Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine. The statue was moved to its current location at the Mōri family home in Bofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture.[13]

Hideyoshi's Kyūshū Campaign (1586–1587)

In 1586

daimyō and generals who had succeeded in a great victory attacking a castle. One of the people he addressed was Hayashi Tosa-no-kami Narinaga (林土佐守就長) meaning at this time he held the title "Tosa-no-kami" (an honorary court office) but it is unknown when he had received it. In 1587 he was part of Mōri Terumoto
's Mapping Committee (毛利輝元 惣国検地) which he worked with until 1591.

In 1588 it is recorded that Hayashi Tosa-no-kami is promoted to the position where he receives direct orders from Hideyoshi on strategies in

Kyūshū where his ancestors from the Kikuchi clan had ruled. This year Hideyoshi bestowed the Toyotomi uji (豊臣朝臣, Toyotomi-no-asomi, courtier of Toyotomi) upon his closest followers including Narinaga. In July, 1588 of the same year Narinaga is given the new title of "Hizen-no-kami" (肥前守) in accordance with the Junior Fifth Rank, Junior Grade (Ju go-i-no-ge, 従五位下). The same month, Emperor Go-Yōzei visited Toyotomi Hideyoshi's mansion and the Sword hunt Edict was declared.[14] Three years later in 1591 Mōri Terumoto began the construction of Hiroshima Castle.[15]

Hideyoshi's Korean Campaign (1592–1594)

Letter from Toyotomi Hideyoshi about Narinaga.

In April and December 1592 Narinaga was sent as an diplomatic envoy between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Mōri clan along with Ankokuji Ekei (安國寺惠瓊). One of the reasons they were sent was to deliver a letter of thanks from Hideyoshi to Mōri Terumoto for the hospitality he had received when he was visiting Hiroshima Castle[16]

Also this year, Hideyoshi ordered the

Invasion of Korea. Narinaga was already 75 years old when he was sent to war across the Sea of Japan. There is a letter held at the Hiroshima Museum addressed to Mōri Terumoto from Toyotomi Hideyoshi and in it he expresses worry for his "old friend" Hayashi Hizen-no-kami who was old and at war.[17]

Retirement and death (1594–1605)

Remains of Aka Castle (2011).

In 1594 Hayashi Hizen-no-kami returned from

Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) after fighting for two years. He was 78 years old and requested retirement to Mōri Terumoto who accepted so Narinaga gave his son Motoyoshi Matsuoka Castle and built Aka Castle (Aka-jō, 赤城) as a retirement castle. It may have been red because the name literally means "red castle". His son, Motoyoshi, received an annual stipend of 2,290 koku which was twice as much as the Hayashi clan had before they left to the Chōshū Domain.[18] Narinaga took the life of a Buddhist monk and took the name Dōhan (道範).[19]
Today there are only ruins of Aka Castle with only the walls and moat remaining. It is measured that it was 480 meters by 57 meters in size and is considered a "yama-shirō" (mountain castle) or "residence hall".

In September, 1597 Narinaga who was residing at Aka Castle rebuilt Hijiri Shrine (Hijiri-jinja, 聖神社) which had burned down. The shrine was near his retirement castle and Matsuoka Castle where his son lived. In front of the shrine which still stands today there are town stone dogs and one is believed to be donated by Narinaga.[20] The next year, Toyotomi Hideyoshi died at Fushimi Castle (伏見城) at the age of 63.

After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 both Matsuoka Castle and Aka Castle no longer belonged to the Hayashi clan who were transferred to Hiroshima Castle and Mihara Castle.[21]
Narinaga died on July 19, 1605, at the age of 89 (88 in Western counting) outliving most of his contemporaries of the Sengoku period. Where he is buried is unknown. The temple sacred to Narinaga today is Mannen-ji (萬年寺) in Kue, Aki Province (today Hiroshima Prefecture).[22]

Family

Family tree made by Victor Larsson, descendant of Narinaga.
  • Father: Kikuchi Takenaga (菊池武長, 1489–1576)[23]
  • Uncle?: Kikuchi Otohachi (菊池音八)
  • Mother: unknown, possibly a daughter of the Hayashi clan of Kawajiri (川尻林氏).
    • Brother: Hayashi Genjirō Motonao (林源次郎元尚), Zenuemon (善右衛門尉).[24]
    • Brother: Hayashi Umanosuke (林右馬允), lived at Aka Castle.[25]
      • Wife(s): unknown[26]
        • Son: Hayashi Shima-no-kami Motoyoshi (林志摩守元善, 1558–1609), retainer of Mōri Terumoto, moved to the Chōshū Domain when Terumoto was transferred by Tokugawa Ieyasu. Lord of Matsuoka Castle (松岡城) which he received from his father.[27]
        • Son: Hayashi Tamba-no-kami Nagayoshi (林丹波守長吉, ? –1636), retainer of Kobayakawa Takakage, Kobayakawa Hideaki and Kobayakawa Hidekane. He moved to Nuta (沼田) and changed his surname to Ishibashi (石橋) after the Battle of Sekigahara and the end of the Kobayakawa clan. Also known as Hayashi Jirōuemon Nagayoshi (林次郎右エ門長由) or (林次郎兵衛長早). Lord of Tomita-Matsuyama Castle (Tomita-Matsuyama-jō, 富田松山城).[28]
        • Daughter: name unknown (入江元親室, ? – ? ), wife of Irie Motochika.[29]

Popular culture

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Hayashi family scroll in possession of Victor Larsson, California, USA
  2. ^ 鈴木真年『百家系図稿』巻5,市往公,岡連（宝賀寿男『古代氏族系譜集成』古代氏族研究会、1986年 による）
  3. ^ "Hayashi Shima-no-kami Motoyoshi Archived 2011-08-16 at the Wayback Machine", Today's Person, June 18, 2006; "
  4. ^ Yoshida-monogatari
  5. ^ Yoshida-monogatari
  6. ^ Yoshida-monogatari
  7. ^ Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Hideyoshi. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.
  8. ^ Hayashi Family Scroll in possession of Victor Larsson, California, USA
  9. ^ Yoshida-monogatari
  10. ^ Yoshida-monogatari
  11. ^ Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co.
  12. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  13. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  14. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  15. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  16. ^ Mori family documents
  17. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  18. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  19. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  20. ^ Family Lists of Hayashi, Hori, Wakimoto and Nishikawa put together by Hayashi Seitaro.
  21. ^ Family Lists of Hayashi, Hori, Wakimoto and Nishikawa put together by Hayashi Seitaro.
  22. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  23. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  24. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  25. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  26. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  27. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  28. ^ Hayashi family scroll
  29. ^ Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.

References

  1. ^ Kurahashi, Sumio (March 1, 2000). Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era) (in Japanese) (Report Hurusato #3 ed.). 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House.: Kosan-cho Culture Association.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Family Lists of Hayashi, Hori, Wakimoto and Nishikawa put together by Hayashi Seitaro.
  • Hurusato (Old Country) Tokushu Sengoku Jidai Sera-gun de Katsuyaku shita Shitobito (People of Sera-gun in the Sengoku Era). Kosan-cho Culture Association, 722-0411, Sera-gun, Kosan-cho, Utsu-do 2296-2 Kurahashi Sumio's House. Report Hurusato #3 Published March 1, 2000.
  • Hayashi Family Scroll in possession of Victor Larsson, California, US
  • Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Hideyoshi. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.
  • Mori family documents
  • Fukuhara Masatoshi (2004) - article
  • Yoshida-monogatari
  • Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co.

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