After the Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu Tokugawa became a shogun in 1603 and opened the Edo Shogunate. He passed through a number of shrines as a daimyo during the Warring States period, which began with the Onin War, and died in 1616 as if to confirm the destruction of the Toyotomi clan.
He was 75 years old and had a long life at that time, and even if he saw the successive shoguns of Tokugawa, he lived the longest after the 15th shogun Yoshinobu.
"Wake up again with joy and sleep. Ukiyo no Yume is the dawn sky"
"I'm going to leave the mark first, but I'm thinking about doing the same thing"
I am reading the above two phrases after resigning.
Cause of death of Ieyasu Tokugawa
As the title suggests, Ieyasu Tokugawa is said to have died after eating too much tempura.
However, Ieyasu, a health enthusiast, should have known that eating too much would be bad for his health, and his cautious personality makes it hard to believe.
It is true that Ieyasu is cautious because he has run through the Warring States period. On the other hand, Ieyasu seems to have been a very curious and active person. At the Battle of Sekigahara, he wore armor from Nanban, and used Nanban clocks and hourglasses.
At that time, I met tempura at the place where I went hunting for falconry, and Ieyasu, who is curious, seems to have made it and ate it immediately. At that time, the tempura from Portugal seemed to have a shape similar to that of deep-fried Thai surimi.
However, it is said that the tempura he ate caused abdominal pain and he died at the age of 75. At that time, it seems that the oil itself was still very valuable, and even the shogunate was rarely able to eat it. Therefore, it was thought that indigestion due to old age was the cause of death because he was not able to eat normally.
However, I ate tempura for dinner on January 21st, and actually died on April 17th, so it seems that a different theory is now being adopted.
The theory that Ieyasu's true cause of death is stomach cancer is predominant.
" Miki Tokugawa According to the official record of the Edo Shogunate, "I lost weight while looking at it, and hematemesis, black stools, and a large stool on my abdomen could be confirmed by touching it with his hands." > Is written. Since this symptom is often seen in patients with gastric cancer, it is said that the stomach cancer has disappeared now.
It seems to be true that tempura made me sick, but it wasn't the direct cause. [ I had stomach cancer, so I ate tempura and got sick ] Is the real thing.
Although Ieyasu's doctor suggested various treatment methods, Ieyasu, who was a health enthusiast, did not listen to the doctor and tried his own treatment.
From a young age, he was concerned about health care, was also interested in the field of medicine, and even prepared his own medicine.
As I wrote earlier, Ieyasu's medical condition was that he had a tumor in his abdomen, but Ieyasu himself self-diagnosed this as a parasite tapeworm and took pills that were said to be effective against all diseases at that time. I was there.
It seems that this pill is made from aconite root as the main ingredient, and the attending physician tells him to stop taking it, but instead of listening to the advice, Ieyasu is in a bad mood and dismisses the attending physician. ..
After that, he became angry and died.
Since he was such a health enthusiast and was more familiar with medicine than a poor doctor, he may have prioritized his own judgment over the judgment of his doctor.
Also, Hidetada Tokugawa and Mitsukuni Mito seem to have died of gastrointestinal cancer, so the Tokugawa family may have been a cancer family.
Sekigahara was already dead ...
During the cause of death theory of Ieyasu, Sekigahara has already been assassinated There is a theory that it was done.
It is a famous story that Ieyasu used a shadow warrior.
At the Battle of Sekigahara, Jiro Saburo Serada was very similar to Ieyasu. Was used as a shadow warrior. And they always sat side by side to invite the confusion of the enemy.
However, it is said that Takeda's ninja impersonated the servant and assassinated the real Ieyasu.
About this as well [ Miki Tokugawa ] Seems to be described in
"Shiroemon Nonomura approached Ieyasu from horseback, so he slashed."
There seems to be a description. This Shiroemon Nonomura That is Ieyasu's messenger is.
The messenger was a person who also served as a messenger, an observer, and a messenger to the enemy army at that time, and it seems that he was always close to Ieyasu and had a lot of trust.
It is unlikely that such a confident person would suddenly rebel and start Ieyasu, so it is natural to think that the Takeda clan's ninja has been replaced.
It doesn't say that he was assassinated, so I don't know what he really meant. Perhaps rumors of a tail fin in this case have spread.
If Ieyasu had been assassinated in the Battle of Sekigahara, who was the one who opened the Edo Shogunate and destroyed the Toyotomi clan?
According to one theory, the shadow warrior was pretending to be Ieyasu all the time. After that, he was said to have been killed with poison in tempura because he was obsolete, but this theory seems to be rejected now.
He was also a shogun and opened the shogunate in Edo, but it seems that the cause of death has not been clarified yet. However, the gastric cancer theory is said to be the predominant view at present.