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*''Japanese'': [[近衛]]前久 ''(Konoe Sakihisa)''

*''Japanese'': [[近衛]]前久 ''(Konoe Sakihisa)''

Sakihisa was the son of [[Konoe 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 [[Ishiyama 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 Konoe's daughter and she later became a consort to [[Emperor Go-Yozei|Emperor Go-Yôzei]].

Konoe Sakihisa was a prominent [[kuge|court noble]] of the late [[Sengoku period]].

 

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]]''.  

 

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.

 

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]].

 

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''.

 

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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