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In [[1555]], the three branch families accepted the invitation of the Môri clan (conveyed via [[Nomi Munekatsu]], admiral of the [[Kobayakawa clan]] navy) to join forces at the [[battle of Miyajima]] against the [[Sue clan]], and, led by Murakami Takeyoshi of Noshima, are said to have contributed significantly to the Môri victory. The Sue fled in a storm for which their opponents were better prepared, and the Murakami went after them, burning Sue ships and destroying their navy.
In [[1555]], the three branch families accepted the invitation of the Môri clan (conveyed via [[Nomi Munekatsu]], admiral of the [[Kobayakawa clan]] navy) to join forces at the [[battle of Miyajima]] against the [[Sue clan]], and, led by Murakami Takeyoshi of Noshima, are said to have contributed significantly to the Môri victory. The Sue fled in a storm for which their opponents were better prepared, and the Murakami went after them, burning Sue ships and destroying their navy.
The Murakami maintained a strong relationship with the Môri for much of the remainder of the Sengoku period, and took part in many battles on the side of the Môri. This relationship was, however, quite shaky at times.
More specifically, Takeyoshi led Murakami navies in the Môri campaign against the [[Amako clan|Amako]] and Ôtomo from [[1559]] onwards. However, in [[1568]], for some reason, the Murakami hesitated to join battle, and in fact made agreements of some sort with the Ôtomo. The Murakami and Môri reconciled in [[1570]], but the very next year, Takeyoshi turned again on the Môri, joining up with the [[Uragami clan]] and opposing the Môri in their efforts to conquer [[Bizen province|Bizen]] and [[Sanuki province]]s (modern-day Okayama and Kagawa). In response, [[Kobayakawa Takakage]] deployed the Kurujima and Innoshima navies to cut off supplies to the Noshima Murakami. Môri Motonari died in the sixth month of that year ([[1571]]), and Takakage spared no time in blockading the island of Noshima, and crushing the navy of the [[Miyoshi clan]] of [[Awa province]] which sought to come to Noshima's rescue. Takeyoshi submitted once again to the authority of the Môri clan in [[1574]], and never again betrayed them.
In the 1570s, the Noshima Murakami supported the Môri in supplying rice and other supplies to the [[Ishiyama Honganji]], in defiance of [[Oda Nobunaga]]'s ten-year efforts to [[Siege of Ishiyama Honganji|besiege the fortress]]. Takeyoshi's son [[Murakami Motoyoshi]], alongside Nomi Munekatsu, commanded the Môri navies to victory against the Oda navies in the [[1576]] [[first battle of Kizugawaguchi]], again defeating Oda attempts to block supplies from reaching the Ishiyama Honganji. [[Murakami Kagehiro]], lord of [[Kasaoka castle]] in [[Bitchu province|Bitchû province]], played an important role in this battle, and the links forged between his family and that of Noshima brought the Murakami into even stronger control of a wider area near/around the Inland Sea.
The Kurujima also took part in Hideyoshi's [[Korean Invasions]], in which Michifusa and his older brother Michiyuki would die in battle, the former in the [[battle of Suyeong]]. The Noshima and Innoshima Murakami also joined Hideyoshi, but were never again fully aligned with Kurujima. Hideyoshi took a disliking to Murakami Takeyoshi and his son [[Murakami Motoyoshi]] of Noshima, and, after taking control of Shikoku, denied them territories there, offering them instead [[Chikuzen province]] (Fukuoka) or [[Nagato province]] (Chôshû, i.e. Yamaguchi prefecture). The Innoshima branch came into the service of [[Kobayakawa Takakage]], and so the era of the three families, united, sailing the Inland Sea, came to an end with the era of Hideyoshi's rule.
The Môri (and their vassals, the Murakami) eventually suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Oda navy, however, in the [[1579]] [[second battle of Kizugawaguchi]], where the Oda employed iron-reinforced ships called ''[[tekkosen|tekkôsen]]''.
Meanwhile, while Murakami Michiyasu and the Kurujima Murakami more broadly had maintained a strong relationship with the Kôno clan, Michiyasu's son Michifusa rose up against the Kôno, beginning in [[1579]]. He had become head of the Kurujima branch family after his older brother [[Murakami Michiyuki]] gave up the succession to become head of another family, the [[Tokui clan]].
===Under Oda and Toyotomi===
In [[1582]], Michifusa succumbed to schemes by [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] and came to fight for Oda Nobunaga against the Kôno and Môri, suffering defeat at their hands. Seeking to extricate the region from Oda/Toyotomi domination, father and son Murakami Takeyoshi and Motoyoshi led the Noshima and Innoshima Murakami against Kurujima, seizing Kurujima castle, and forcing Michifusa to flee the region. Fleeing to Bitchû and joining Toyotomi Hideyoshi in earnest, he became one of Hideyoshi's closer associates. Michifusa returned to Kurujima two years later, after, in the wake of Nobunaga's death, hostilities between Hideyoshi and the Môri (and the allies of the Môri, including the Kôno and the Murakami of Noshima & Innoshima) had ended. It was around this time that the Murakami of Kurujima came to be known as the Kurujima family (i.e. not as the Murakami), as this was the name that Hideyoshi, apparently, used to refer to them.
Michifusa served in the advance guard for Hideyoshi's [[1585]] [[Invasion of Shikoku (1585)|Invasion of Shikoku]], in which he fought against the Noshima and Innoshima Murakami; for his service, Hideyoshi granted him Noma and Kazahaya districts in Iyo, a holding worth 14,000 ''[[koku]]''. He then fought alongside the Môri in Hideyoshi's [[1587]] [[invasion of Kyushu]], and in particular in the [[siege of Urutsu|attack on Urutsu castle]]. In the [[siege of Odawara]] in [[1590]], he joined forces with the navies of the [[Kato clan|Katô]] and [[Kuki clan]]s, attacking the castle from the sea. The Kurujima also took part in Hideyoshi's [[Korean Invasions]], in which Michifusa and his older brother Michiyuki would die in battle, the former in the [[battle of Suyeong]].
Meanwhile, beginning in [[1588]], Hideyoshi issued edicts against piracy, and the Noshima and Innoshima Murakami saw all their privileges and powers on the Inland Sea, which they had enjoyed for centuries, vanish. They attempted to continue to collect levies, but were chastised by Hideyoshi, who had banned such activities. Takeyoshi and his son Motoyoshi were spared ''seppuku'' only by the mediation of Kobayakawa Takakage. They were, however, forced to leave the Inland Sea, and to reestablish themselves in [[Nagato province|Nagato]] (Yamaguchi; Chôshû) or [[Chikuzen province]] (Fukuoka).
The Noshima and Innoshima Murakami thus submitted to Hideyoshi eventually, but were never again fully aligned with Kurujima. Thus the era of the three families, united, sailing the Inland Sea, came to an end with the era of Hideyoshi's rule.
===Under Tokugawa===
Michifusa's son [[Murakami Yasuchika]], who succeeded his father as head of the Kurujima, sided with the Western Army in the [[battle of Sekigahara]]. Upon their defeat, he lost all of his holdings and followers, except for a small number of retainers. However, due to the good graces of [[Honda Masanobu]] and others, he was allowed, the following year, to become a daimyo once again; he was granted Kusu district in [[Bungo province]], and his line, which came to be known as the Kurujima<!--久留島-->, governed that district until the [[Meiji period]].
Michifusa's son [[Murakami Yasuchika]], who succeeded his father as head of the Kurujima, sided with the Western Army in the [[battle of Sekigahara]]. Upon their defeat, he lost all of his holdings and followers, except for a small number of retainers. However, due to the good graces of [[Honda Masanobu]] and others, he was allowed, the following year, to become a daimyo once again; he was granted Kusu district in [[Bungo province]], and his line, which came to be known as the Kurujima<!--久留島-->, governed that district until the [[Meiji period]].
The Noshima Murakami besieged [[Iyo Matsumae castle]] while the battle of Sekigahara took place further east, and Murakami Motoyoshi died in battle later in that campaign, at a place called Mitsuhama. His father, Takeyoshi, died four years later, at Yashirojima (aka Suô-Ôshima), which had been granted him years early by the Môri in return for his aid against the Ôuchi. Takeyoshi's heir, [[Murakami Mototake]], served the Môri in a prominent naval capacity, and the descendants of the Noshima Murakami continued to serve the Môri, as Chôshû domain ([[Hagi han]]) vassals, through the Edo period.
* [[Murakami Morokiyo]]
* [[Murakami Morokiyo]]
* [[Murakami Yoshiaki]]
* [[Murakami Yoshiaki]]
* [[Murakami Akitada]]
* [[Murakami Akinaga]]
* [[Murakami Michiyasu]] (d. 1567)
* [[Murakami Michiyasu]] (d. 1567)
* [[Murakami Michifusa]]
* [[Murakami Michifusa]]
* [[Murakami Takakatsu]]
* [[Murakami Yoshimasa]]
* [[Murakami Yoshimasu]]
* [[Murakami Takashige]]
* [[Murakami Michiyuki]]
* [[Murakami Michiyuki]]
* [[Murakami Takeyoshi]]
* [[Murakami Takeyoshi]]
* [[Murakami Yoshikiyo]]
* [[Murakami Yoshikiyo]]
* [[Murakami Yasuchika]]
* [[Murakami Yasuchika]]
* [[Murakami Mototake]]
* [[Murakami Kagechika]]
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