Hosokawa Fujitaka

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Hosokawa Fujitaka

(June 3, 1534-October 6, 1610) was a Japanese daimyo

Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
of the Sengoku period

Sengoku period

The was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict in Japan that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century....
. Also known as . Fujitaka was a prominent retainer of the last Ashikaga shoguns. When he joined the Oda, Oda Nobunaga

Oda Nobunaga

was a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of History of Japan. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy shugo with land holdings in Owari province....
awarded him with Tango fief. His son, Hosokawa Tadaoki

Hosokawa Tadaoki

was the eldest son of Hosokawa Fujitaka. He fought in his first battle at the age of 15. In that battle, he was in the service of Oda Nobunaga....
, went on to become one of the Oda clan

Oda clan

The was a family of Japanese daimyo who were to become an important political force in the unification of Japan in the mid-16th century. Though they had the climax of their fame under Oda Nobunaga and fell from the spotlight soon after, several branches of the family would continue on as daimyo houses until the Meiji Restoration....
's senior generals.

After the Incident at Honno-ji (1582), Fujitaka refused to join Akechi Mitsuhide

Akechi Mitsuhide

, nicknamed Jubei or , was a samurai who lived during the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan Japan.Mitsuhide was a samurai and a general under daimyo Oda Nobunaga, although he later betrayed Nobunaga and caused him to commit seppuku....
. However, he did not join Akechi in battle at Yamazaki, despite his son's marriage to Akechi's daughter.

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(June 3, 1534-October 6, 1610) was a Japanese daimyo

Daimyo

Sengoku period

Oda Nobunaga

Hosokawa Tadaoki

was the eldest son of Hosokawa Fujitaka. He fought in his first battle at the age of 15. In that battle, he was in the service of Oda Nobunaga....
, went on to become one of the Oda clan

Oda clan

Akechi Mitsuhide

Tonsure

Tonsure is the practice of some Christianity churches, mystics, Buddhist novices and Bhikkhus, and some Hindu temples of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics, devotees or holy people as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem....
and changed his name to the priestly "Yusai." However, he remained an active force in politics, under both Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

was a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, after Hideyoshi's castle....
as a cultural advisor and later, Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868....
. Hideyoshi granted Fujitaka a retirement estate worth 3,000 koku

Koku

The is a unit of volume in Japan, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres....
in Yamashiro Province

Yamashiro Province

was a Provinces of Japan of Japan, located in Kinai. It overlaps the southern part of modern Kyoto Prefecture on Honshu. Aliases include , the rare , and ....
.

Ishida Mitsunari

Ishida Mitsunari

Ishida Mitsunari was a samurai who led the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara following the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the 17th century....
had asked Fujitaka to join the Western Army, though the latter refused due to one of Ishida's schemes which resulted in his granddaughter's death. As a general in the Eastern Army, he held Tanabe Castle. He was besieged by the Western Army, though a general there respected Fujitaka. Therefore, the attack lacked the usual gusto involved in a samurai siege: the attackers amused themselves by shooting the walls with cannons loaded with only gunpowder. He laid down arms only after an imperial decree from the emperor. However, this was 19 days before Sekigahara, and he (along with the attackers) was not able to join the battle.

He was a great scholar an poet, and he wrote The Tales of Ise

The Tales of Ise

is a Japanese collection of waka #Tanka poems, accompanied by short, prose narratives about the poet, Ariwara no Narihira, which provide a context for the poems....
.

Fujitaka was buried in Kyoto, but has a second grave in Kumamoto, which his grandson Tadatoshi

Hosokawa Tadatoshi

was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period, who ruled the Kumamoto Domain. He was a patron of the martial artist Miyamoto Musashi.Tadatoshi's grave is in Kumamoto....
ruled.