Hosokawa Fujitaka
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Hosokawa Fujitaka (1534 - 1610) was a Japanese daimyō and military general and later a renowned tea master and poet. Initially having served under the Ashikaga shogunate, he became a retainer to Oda Nobunaga. After the Honnō-ji incident, he later served Toyotomi Hideyoshi despite his son Hosokawa Tadaoki's marriage to Akechi Tama, a member of the Akechi clan and the daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide, during the Battle of Yamazaki.[2][1]
After the battle and Mitsuhide's defeat, Fujitaka then relinquished his title and leadership to Tadaoki[1] and took Buddhist vows and adopted the name Yūsai, but still served Hideyoshi as an advisor. After Hideyoshi's death, he defied the western army's advanced and inadvertingly aided Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory in the Battle of Sekigahara.[2]
Biography
In 1541, Fujitaka was adopted into the Hosokawa family at age seven. Within the next three decades, he began to serve under the last of the Ashikaga shoguns until 1573, when he became a vassal under Oda Nobunaga.[2] In 1571, he was entrusted Shōryū-ji Castle by Nobunaga, where he rebuilt its defenses by installing a double moat.[3] In 1578,[4] his son Tadaoki later married with Akechi Tama, the daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide.[2]
In 1582, after the death of Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji,[5] Fujitaka was considering his option on whether to support Mitsuhide or Hideyoshi. Meanwhile, he had trouble dealing with his finances revolving around his silver intake and tasked his second-in-command Yoshisada to manage them. However, unbeknownst to Fujitaka, Yoshisada took advantage of his finances and began a silver-smuggling operation. With the help of Akechi soldiers and Portuguese traders, Yoshisada stole and used the silver to buy teppō and then sold the teppō to bandits at a higher cost.[6]
However, upon discovering the smuggling operation, Fujitaka had Yoshisade help him investigate, which led Yoshisade to frame Mai and her fellow cohorts as the sole perpetrators. When the Kakushiba ikki members Fujibayashi Naoe and Yasuke arrived at Sukyo-ji Temple and met Fujitaka, he asked them to help him investigate and dismantle the operation altogether.[6]
When Naoe and Yasuke assassinated all the members, they discovered of Yoshisada being the mastermind. When they took their findings and met with Fujitaka, Fujitaka demanded proof of Yoshisada's guilt. Thus, they traveled to Miyazu Castle and confronted Yoshisada, who admitted his part but reprimanded them for exposing his betrayal and attacked them. Yoshisada was ultimately defeated as Naoe and Yasuke recovered his confession from his personal effects. Returning back to Sukyo-ji Temple, they gave Fujitaka the confession, much to his dismay. Fujitaka thanked them for their work, decided not to ally himself with the Akechi clan, and then gave them gold as their reward.[6]
Later life and death
After serving with Hideyoshi at the Battle of Yamazaki,[1] Fujitaka later took Buddhist vows and became known as Yūsai. He served under Hideyoshi until his death in 1598. In 1600, he defended his castle against the Western army's forces and held them out of his castle, which indirectly led to the Eastern army winning the battle. He ultimately retired to a life of mastering the practice of tea and waka poetry, which played a vital part in establishing the etiquette and rules for the Tokugawa shogunate.[2] He died on 6 October 1610 in Kyoto at the age of 76.[1]
Appearances
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
Hosokawa Fujitaka on Wikipedia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Database: Hosokawa Fujitaka
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Database: Shoryu-ji
- ↑ Hosokawa Tadaoki on Wikipedia
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Shadows – Temple of the Horseman
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Assassin's Creed: Shadows – The Silver Smugglers