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Matsunaga Hisahide (松永 久秀
1510 –
November 19,
1577) was a
daimyo of
Japan following the
Sengoku period of the 16th century.
A companion of
Miyoshi Chokei, he was a retainer of
Miyoshi Masanaga 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 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, the
shogun, who was then either murdered or forced to commit suicide, he was replaced by the child
Yoshihide and the shogun's brother
Yoshiaki fled. In 1566 fighting started between Hisahide and the Miyoshi. Initially the forces of Hisahide were unsuccessful and his apparent destruction of the Buddhist
Tōdai-ji in Nara was considered an act of infamy.
In 1568
Oda Nobunaga, 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 Miyosi 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. 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. He reportedly blasted himself and kettle with bags of gunpowder becoming first Japanese to commit suicide through an
explosion. 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
Tōdai-ji. In truth, he was a tall handsome educated man and a
patron of arts. He was also reported to have converted to Christianity.
Cultural References
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Matsunaga Hisahide is featured as a character within the video game, in which he's depicted as a man of treachery who enjoys any course of action that would subsequently present to him a greater sum of pleasure. He takes a primary role in
Katakura Kojuurou's story; and by the end of such a scenario he sets aflame his initial base with explosives as a showing of defeat.
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