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| * ''Birth: [[1536]]'' | | * ''Birth: [[1536]]'' |
| * ''Death: [[1612]]'' | | * ''Death: [[1612]]'' |
− | * ''Titles: [[Kampaku]] ([[1554]]), Sangû, Daijôdaijin'' | + | * ''Titles: [[Kampaku]] ([[1554]]), Sangû, [[Daijo daijin|Daijô daijin]]'' |
− | * ''Other names: Konôe Harutsugu, Konôe Sakitsugu, Ryûzan'' | + | * ''Other names'': 近衛晴嗣 ''(Konoe Harutsugu)'', 近衛前嗣 ''(Konoe Sakitsugu)'', 龍山 ''(Ryûzan)'' |
− | * ''Son: [[Konoe Nobusuke]]'' | + | * ''Children: [[Konoe Nobutada]], [[Konoe Sakiko]]'' |
| * ''Distinction: Imperial regent'' | | * ''Distinction: Imperial regent'' |
| + | *''Japanese'': [[近衛]]前久 ''(Konoe Sakihisa)'' |
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| + | Konoe Sakihisa was the 16th head of the [[Konoe family]], one of the five "regent" houses (''[[gosekke]]'') among the [[kuge|court nobility]]. He is known for both his calligraphy and his ''[[waka]]''.<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Megumi, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," ''Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô'' 31 (2006), 252.</ref> |
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− | Sakihisa was the son of [[Konoe Taneie|Konôe Taneie]], a close confident of [[Shogun|shôgun]] [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]], and was named Kampaku in 1554 (this being during the reign of Emperor [[Go-Nara]]). He later spent some years in [[Echigo province]] as a guest of [[Uesugi Kenshin]] before returning to [[Kyoto]] in [[1565]], where he composed the [[Saga-ki]]. Relations between Sakihisa and [[Oda Nobunaga]] (who had entered Kyoto in [[1568]]) gradually soured, until the former felt compelled to flee to [[Satsuma province]] in [[1573]]. While in Satsuma he occupied himself with teaching poetry to [[Shimazu Narihisa]]. Thanks in part to the intervention of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi]], Sakihisa was able to retun to Kyoto in [[1575]]. He repaired his relations with Nobunaga and acted as a go-between when Oda and [[Kennyo Kosa|Kennyô Kosa]] were negotiating the surrender of the [[Honganji]] in [[1580]]. He changed his name to Ryûzan in [[1582]] and took up the tonsure but remained active in court life, adopting Toyotomi Hideyoshi in order to provide the latter with a link to the [[Fujiwara clan|Fujiwara]] in [[1586]]. Hideyoshi in turn adopted Konôe's daughter and she later became a consort to [[Go-Yozei|Go-Yôzei]].
| + | The son of [[Konoe Taneie]], he was raised alongside [[Shogun]]s [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]] and [[Ashikaga Yoshiaki]]. He was named ''[[Kampaku]]'' in [[1554]] (during the reign of [[Emperor Go-Nara]]), but later had a falling out with Yoshiaki and was forced out of the capital; Sakihisa spent some years in [[Echigo province]] as a guest of [[Uesugi Kenshin]] before returning to [[Kyoto]] in [[1565]], where he composed the ''[[Saga-ki]]''. |
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| + | Sakihisa developed good relations with [[Oda Nobunaga]] (who had entered Kyoto in [[1568]]), but by [[1573]], these relations had soured, and Nobunaga sent Sakihisa to faraway [[Satsuma province]], in response to requests that he do something to end disputes between the [[Ito clan|Itô]] and [[Shimazu clan]]s. Sakihisa was unable to achieve a rapprochment between the two clans, but during his time in Satsuma shared the poetry and courtly customs of the capital with [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]] and his ''[[karo|karô]]'' [[Uwai Satokane]]. When members of the Shimazu clan later visited Kyoto, Sakihisa served as intermediary. |
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| + | Thanks in part to the intervention of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi]], Sakihisa was able to retun to Kyoto in [[1575]]. He repaired his relations with Nobunaga and acted as a go-between when Oda and [[Kennyo Kosa|Kennyô Kosa]] were negotiating the surrender of the [[Ishiyama Honganji]] in [[1580]]. He changed his name to Ryûzan in [[1582]] and took up the tonsure but remained active in court life. Following the death of Nobunaga and destruction of his regime in the 1582 [[Honno-ji Incident|Honnô-ji Incident]], Sakihisa accepted an invitation from [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] to spend some time with him in [[Mikawa province]]. |
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| + | Sakihisa adopted Toyotomi Hideyoshi into the [[Konoe family]] in [[1586]] in order to provide the latter with a link to the [[Fujiwara clan|Fujiwara]]. Hideyoshi in turn adopted Sakihisa's daughter [[Konoe Sakiko]], who later became a consort to [[Emperor Go-Yozei|Emperor Go-Yôzei]]. Sakihisa's son [[Konoe Nobutada]] became prominent in Imperial affairs as well, succeeding him as ''kanpaku''. |
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| + | Sakihisa traveled considerably in the 1580s-1590s, beginning with his time with Ieyasu in Mikawa. In his last years, he retired to [[Ginkaku-ji]], dying in Kyoto in [[1612]]. |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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| + | *"[http://www.shuseikan.jp/word/family17.html Konoe Sakihisa]," ''Satsuma Shimazu-ke no rekishi'', Shôkoshûseikan official website. |
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