During the Sengoku period, which lasted about 150 years, starting with the Onin War, there were many Sengoku warlords.
Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Ieyasu Tokugawa With their outstanding ability, they have achieved many great achievements. There are heroes, and vice versa, and it is true that they have made a name for themselves in posterity.
Today, I would like to write about the three incompetent brothers of the Warring States period.
Masamoto Hosokawa who threw out the power he had acquired
As the title says, Masamoto Hosokawa, Yoshitaka Ouchi, Imagawa Ujizane in chronological order. Is the three great folly during the Warring States period It is listed in. These three are well-known daimyo who have been active at different times and actually have some talented parts, but because the shadows are too painful, they were evaluated in this way in posterity.
Masamoto Hosokawa Was a person who was active in the early days of the Warring States period, and was born into the world as the firstborn of the Hosokawa clan, the governor of the Muromachi Shogunate. He fought against Masanaga Hatakeyama, who is said to be the cause of the Onin War, and he took control of the shogunate with Yoshizumi Ashikaga as a general.
Because he had more real power than the general, [ semi-general ] Was called.
He was a Masamoto who was good at diplomacy and domestic affairs, but he eventually fell in love with Shugendo by neglecting the shogunate. Shugendo is a very painful practice and aims at the ability beyond human intelligence. Simply put, it means that he was addicted to the practice of becoming a hermit.
Also, Masamoto did not have his firstborn because he did not marry his wife for the rest of his life. As a result, he adopted three children, but did not appoint his successor, so he began to quarrel with each other to succeed the Hosokawa Kichicho family.
This brother, Kenka, developed by the time his adoptive father, Masamoto, was assassinated.
This turmoil led to the birth of the Sengoku daimyo.
Masamoto Hosokawa himself, who was devoted to the power struggle, did not abandon the power he had acquired by organizing his surroundings, so it was evaluated as foolish by posterity that it became a conflict involving the whole country. It was done.
Yoshitaka Ouchi and Imagawa Ujizane, who were so buried in their hobbies that they were like professionals.
Yoshitaka Ouchi Is Mori Motonari Living in the same era as Nagato, Suo, Aki, Iwami, Chikuzen, Buzen He was a daimyo who dominated the six countries of. At that time, Motoko was just one of the nationals belonging to Yoshitaka.
Nagato and Suo were stable in the Ouchi territory amid the prevalence of Gekokujo's spirit, but there was concern that the remaining four countries would have their vassals, Shugodai. In order to prevent the vassals from becoming a daimyo, Yoshitaka took measures such as separating the territory from his territory and keeping the guardian's charge close to each country. However, as the powers of neighboring countries became the Sengoku daimyo, the turmoil continued.
The Ouchi family has a vast territory and a huge fortune due to the monopoly of foreign trade, and the financial base was rich among the western countries. However, he is a senior vassal Sue Harukata However, Yoshitaka Ouchi is beaten up.
Yoshitaka showed great achievements in domestic affairs, but he could only say that he was mediocre when it came to martial arts such as strategy. On the other hand, he generously protected the cultural people who had fled the devastated Kyoto due to the Onin War, and inherited the culture and traditions that may have been lost in the war.
In fact, in Yamaguchi, which was ruled by Yoshitaka, a unique culture called Ouchi culture, which was a fusion of Kitayama culture and Higashiyama culture, was born and became known as Kyoto in the west.
In this way, Yoshitaka Ouchi had an extraordinary talent in terms of internal affairs, but after the establishment of the Edo period, there was a samurai whose text was simple and strong, so Yoshitaka who valued internal affairs rather than culture. , I will be evaluated as a foolish general drowning in the weakness of the grace.
For the same reason, Imagawa Ujizane is being treated as foolish. is.
The Imagawa clan is a prestigious Seiwa Genji clan, and was said to have the second highest rank after the Ashikaga clan. Suruga, Totomi, Mikawa for his father, Yoshimoto Although he was a daimyo with three countries, Ujizane succeeded the family when he was defeated by Nobunaga Oda in the Battle of Okehazama.
However, Mr. Ujizane drowned in sake and male color, and the real power was taken over by the chief retainer Miura, and the vassals who opposed this were not gathered, and the territory was cut off by Tokugawa, Takeda, Hojo, and from the tub. It will be destroyed in just 7 years.
After that, although Mr. Imagawa lost his country, he was allowed to survive as a high-ranking family even after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and Mr. Ujizane himself lived until 1615.
Imagawa Ujizane, who managed the territory, was a kid, but Renga / Waka Especially Kemari is a master class It was my skill. It is said that Kemari-kai was often held at Sunpu Castle.
The fever of soccer in Shizuoka Prefecture may or may not come from Imagawa Ujizane ...
Looking at this, Masamoto Hosokawa / Yoshitaka Ouchi Imagawa Ujizane's true darkness is by far the best.
Even if Yoshimoto wins in Okehazama and goes to Tokyo to claim victory over the world, it is highly possible that the Imagawa clan was destroyed by another family during the time of Ujizane.
Bonus ...
"I like hero colors" but overdoing it is annoying
Prosperity of descendants can be said to be a human instinct. As a boy, it is instinct that he wants to devote his instinct to the act of preserving the race. Sengoku warlords are no exception, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Sorin Otomo . Can be said to be the two-top of this era.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi Is from the master, Nobunaga Oda [ My wife cries, so let's play with women I liked women so much that I was told. When such a person took over the world, if there was a woman who was interested in her, her partner would go out of her hand regardless of whether she was married or unmarried.
Hideyoshi had his vassal's wife and Kazoku nearby as hostages, but there is also a statement that the vassals with beautiful wives were afraid to be away on expeditions. Women's tastes were clear, and they liked beautiful and noble bloodlines.
For women, Sorin Otomo Is not defeated. Sorin says that when he was young, he wandered out into the castle and sought a woman of his liking. It seems that the woman who was noticed by Sorin was pressed regardless of her status. It's not Sorin but unequaled.
The lover did not change when he went to Kyo for a general audience. Unlike the castle, in Kyo, my authority does not reach. Therefore, he is said to have kidnapped a woman he saw in the city.
However, it seems that these days of unequaledness stopped suddenly after converting to Catholicism.
Hideyoshi and Sorin were the days of unequaledness with each other, but Sorin had 3 boys and 6 girls and all grew up, but Hideyori was the only child of Hideyoshi to grow up.