Chōsokabe Motochika

Chosokabe Motochika (Japanese长 宗 我 部 元 亲; * 1539 in Japan, † July 11, 1599 in Japan) was a Japanese nobleman and was one of the Sengoku daimyo, influential feudal lords ( daimyo ) towards the end of the Sengoku period.

Chosokabe Motochika took over the Ichijō family in the year 1574th He later received by his victory in the Battle of Watarigawa 1575, the control of the rest of Tosa. He also destroyed the Kono and the Sogaklan. The following year, he spread his influence to 1583 on Shikoku from. However, marched in 1585 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ( Oda Nobunaga's successor ) on the island with 100,000 men a, led by Ukita Hideie, Takakage Kobayakawa, Kikkawa Motonaga, Toyotomi Hidenaga, and Toyotomi Hidetsugu. Motochika surrendered, lost the provinces of Awa, Sanuki, and Iyo. Hideyoshi granted him to keep control of his home province of Tosa.

Under Hideyoshi's command to Motochika Chosokabe and his son Nobuchika in the invasion of the neighboring island of Kyushu, where Nobuchika died involved. 1590 led Motochika the fleet, which was used by Hideyoshi against the Hojo at the siege of Odawara, after the unification of the country he fought with Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the war of invasion in South Korea 1592nd After Motochika died at the age of 61 years in 1599, was his successor Chosokabe Morichika.