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Matsunaga Hisahide (?? ?? 1510 – November 19, 1577) was a 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 Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 following 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....
 of the 16th century.

A companion of Miyoshi Chokei
Miyoshi Chokei

was a Japanese samurai who was lord of the Miyoshi clan during the Sengoku period. Nagayoshi held the court titles of Shuri-dayu and Chikuzen no Kami , and was also known by the more Sinic reading of his name: Chokei....
, he was a retainer of Miyoshi Masanaga
Miyoshi Masanaga

Miyoshi Masanaga was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, a member of the Miyoshi clan who served as daimyo of Awa province. He is remembered as the cousin of Miyoshi Chokei....
 from the 1540s. He directed the conquest of the province of Yamato in the 1560s and by 1564 had build a sufficient power-base to be effectively independent. It is believed that he was conspiring against Chokei during this period, from 1561 to 1563 three of Chokei's brothers died and his son Yoshioki.






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Matsunaga Hisahide (?? ?? 1510 – November 19, 1577) was a 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 Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 following 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....
 of the 16th century.

A companion of Miyoshi Chokei
Miyoshi Chokei

was a Japanese samurai who was lord of the Miyoshi clan during the Sengoku period. Nagayoshi held the court titles of Shuri-dayu and Chikuzen no Kami , and was also known by the more Sinic reading of his name: Chokei....
, he was a retainer of Miyoshi Masanaga
Miyoshi Masanaga

Miyoshi Masanaga was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, a member of the Miyoshi clan who served as daimyo of Awa province. He is remembered as the cousin of Miyoshi Chokei....
 from the 1540s. He directed the conquest of the province of Yamato in the 1560s and by 1564 had build a sufficient power-base to be effectively independent. It is believed that he was conspiring against Chokei during this period, from 1561 to 1563 three of Chokei's brothers died and his son Yoshioki. This left Miyoshi Yoshitsugu
Miyoshi Yoshitsugu

, adopted son of Miyoshi Nagayoshi, was a samurai of the Sengoku period who was practically the last head of Miyoshi clan, daimyo of Kawachi province of Japan....
 the adopted heir when Chokei died in 1564, too young to rule. Three men shared his guardianship - Miyoshi Nagayuki, Miyoshi Masayasu, and Iwanari Tomomichi.

In 1565 the guardians and Hisahide worked together and dispatched an army to capture Ashikaga Yoshiteru
Ashikaga Yoshiteru

File:Ashikaga yoshiteru2.jpg, also known as Yoshihusi, was the 13th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1546 to 1565 during the late Muromachi period of Japan....
, the shogun
Shogun

is a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces of Japan. The Japanese word for "general", it is made up of two kanji characters: sho, meaning "commander", "general", or "admiral", and gun meaning military troops or warriors....
, who was then either murdered or forced to commit suicide, he was replaced by the child Yoshihide
Ashikaga Yoshihide

was the 14th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who held nominal power for a few months in 1568 during the Muromachi period of Japan. When he became shogun, he changed his name to Yoshinaga, but he is more conventionally recognized today by the name Yoshihide....
 and the shogun's brother Yoshiaki
Ashikaga Yoshiaki

File:Yoshiaki.jpg was the 15th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573. His father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu was the twelfth shogun, and his brother, Ashikaga Yoshiteru was the thirteenth shogun....
 fled. In 1566 fighting started between Hisahide and the Miyoshi. Initially the forces of Hisahide were unsuccessful and his apparent destruction of the Buddhist Todai-ji
Todai-ji

, is a Buddhism temple complex located in the city of Nara, Nara, Japan. Its Great Buddha Hall , the largest wooden building in the world, houses the world's largest statue of the Buddha Vairocana, known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu ....
 in Nara was considered an act of infamy.

In 1568 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....
, with the figurehead Yoshiaki, attacked Hisahide. Nobunaga captured Kyoto in November and Hisahide was forced to surrender. Yoshiaki was made shogun, a post he held only until 1573 when he attempted to remove himself from Nobunaga's power. Hisahide kept control of the Yamato and served Nobunaga in his extended campaigns against the Miyoshi and others, for a while. In 1573 Hisahide briefly allied with the Miyoshi, but when the hoped for successes were not achieved he returned to Nobunaga to fight the Miyoshi. In 1577 he split with Nobunaga again, this time Nobunaga turned on him and besieged him at Shigisan Castle
Shigisan Castle

was a Japanese castle of the Sengoku period, controlled by the Kizawa clan and Matsunaga clans....
. Defeated but defiant Hisahide committed suicide, he ordered his head destroyed to prevent it becoming a trophy (in which his son, Matsunaga Kojiro grabbed Matsunaga's head and jumped off the castle wall with his sword through his throat) and also destroyed a priceless tea kettle (Hiragumo) that Nobunaga coveted before he died. His son, Hisamichi, also committed suicide in siege.

Hisahide often appears as a shriveled and scheming old man in fiction but this is a fictitious image from his assassinations and the possible destruction of Todai-ji
Todai-ji

, is a Buddhism temple complex located in the city of Nara, Nara, Japan. Its Great Buddha Hall , the largest wooden building in the world, houses the world's largest statue of the Buddha Vairocana, known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu ....
. In truth, he was a tall handsome educated man and a patron
Patrón

Patr?n is a brand of tequila produced in Mexico and imported into the United States solely by The Patr?n Spirits Company, based in Las Vegas metropolitan area, Nevada....
 of arts.

Cultural References

See People of the Sengoku period in popular culture
People of the Sengoku period in popular culture

Many significant Japanese historical people of the Sengoku period appear in works of popular culture such as anime, manga, and video games....
.