Konoe Sakihisa

Sakihisa Konoe (Japanese近卫 前 久; * 1536, † June 7, 1612; (Japanese calendar: Keicho庆 长17/5/8 ), outdated romanization: Konoye Sakihisa, was from 1554 to 1568 Kampaku ( Regent ) for two Japanese Emperor during the Sengoku period.

Journey

Konoe Sakihisa, whose name was originally Harutsugu (晴 嗣), was the son of Konoe Tanaie and Noriko (庆 子). His father was a close associate of Ashikaga Yoshiteru. Due to his noble birth in the most important family of the high nobility ( kuge ) he was like his father Kampaku ( Regent ). He had five siblings. Since early childhood, he was awarded various offices at court. At age five he was promoted to the actual third court rank. His eldest son was Nobutada later famous as a painter and calligrapher.

The Office of Naidaijin he got in 1547, followed in 1553 was appointed Udaijin ( " Registrar to the right "). After taking office as Sadaijin ( " Chancellor of the left" ) in 1554 - he was 18 years old - and at the same time as Kampaku for the Go- Nara Tennō he changed his name early in 1555 Harutsugu in Sakitsugu (前 嗣). Later that year, the surveys followed in the following first court rank. He retained the chancellorship to 1557, he held the regency, also for the Ogimachi Tennō until 1568.

Already in 1558 he wanted to seek the support of Ōtomo to bring about a change in the disordered balance of power in the fragmented country. He was the regional ruler of Echigo, Kenshin Uesugi ( 1530-78 ), since its tight " visit, " accompanied by his army in Kyoto in 1559, respectively. They concluded an agreement whereby Sakihisa support promised in the conquest of the whole Kantō. 1560 He went to Echigo when he was Regent, a single in the history process. The following year, he toured the provinces Ueno and Shimousa. When he returned to the capital in the eighth month in 1562, he had assumed the name Sakihisa under which he is known today.

After his relations with the victorious Ashikaga Yoshiaki had further deteriorated, Sakihisa fled 1568 - the Kampaku - deprived office - first in the Ishiyamahonganji of Osaka. Politically, he was a bit narrow-minded, believes that social stability is to be receive within the traditional system. For his support of Miyoshi he received land in the value of 3000 koku. Then he went in 1572 after the Battle of Wakae ( Kawachi Province ), in the following year after Tamba from where he returned to the capital.

Now he allied with Oda Nobunaga, whose avowed opponent he had been, and was to end in 1573 whose main advisor. He also took part in the campaign against Nobunaga Tada Klan. As Nobunaga to all courtiers from the fifth Gave away the ranks steadily country Sakihisa received the greatest gift of 300 koku. At the same time he acted as arbiter elegantiae and patron of the arts, such as the construction of the castle of Azuchi. However, he fell out with the commander why he fled again two years later, this time between Kagoshima in the province of Satsuma and Higo back and herpendelnd. After his return again - and reconciliation - for the second month in 1576, he was summoned to the court 1577/i7/20. Beginning of the following year he was appointed chancellor ( dajo daijin ); in the third month, he accompanied Nobunaga in the provincial capital of Kai. As Nobunaga had committed suicide during the incident at Honnō -ji on 21 June 1582, there was an inevitable turning point in the life Sakihisas.

From the office of the Grand Chancellor, he resigned in the same month. He entered a Buddhist monastery, then under the religious name Ryuzan (龙山) known. First he went to Nara, then to Saga ( Yamashiro Province) in 1583 where he completed Saga -ki. The non- especially diplomatic Sakihisa Hideyoshi refused to show a sword that he had been given by Nobunaga, Hideyoshi because he held unworthy at his request. In the dispute was mediated by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Sakihisa adopted in 1584, probably of necessity, after mediation by Maeda Gen'i, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (then Hashiba Hidetoshi ), which thus received the necessary legitimacy to take on the Regent dignity. In return, Hideyoshi adopted Sakahisas daughter Sakiko that as the wife of Go- Yozei - Tennō ( r. 1586-1611 ), the later Go- Mizunoo - Tennō gave birth ( r. 1611-29 ).

As of 1585, apart from two short periods in Kyoto, he led a secluded life in a hermitage of Jishō -ji.

Sakihisa died 08/05/1612, which already handed down after one months ban of falconry for nobles by Tokugawa Ieyasu, is seen as a personal insult to the deceased, an enthusiastic falconer. His grave is located in the Tofuku -ji.

Family

One of his wives was Hojuin (1532-1630), which originated according to sources, a servant in the household was Konoe - or from the clan of Takeda. It is considered the mother of Konoe Nobutada. His sister was married to the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

Children:

• Ichijoin Sonsei (1563-1616), since 06.28.1576 monk in Kōfuku -ji Nara
• Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614)
• Kōshōin Sonjo -ni (1565-1627)
• Iriedono Shoryu (1574-1615)
• Sakikio was the wife of the Go- Yozei 1556, shortly before his accession to the throne

Literature and art

• Saga -ki
• Ryuzan - hō tako hyakushu ( " 100 poems about the Hawks" )

• Bruschke - Johnson, Lee; Dismissed as elegant fossils ...; Amsterdam 2004 ( Hotei ), ISBN 90-7482252-5

Sources and References

• Berend Wispelwey (ed.): Japanese Biographical Archive; Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-34014-1, Fiche 167

• Konoe
• Regent (Japan)
• Born in 1536
• Died in 1612
• Man