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This article talks about the daimyō Date Masamune in the Okuwa area of the Sengoku region of Japan, as a relatively special IP, date Masamune's image has changed a lot compared to the real history.
Date Masamune
Date Masamune was born in 1567 in Yonezawa Castle, Izuwa Domain (present-day Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture). In 1584, Date Masamune officially took over as the seventeenth generation of the Date family.
Date Masamune's father was Date Keimune in Yonezawa Castle, and his mother was The Daughter of the Most Noble Yoshimori of the Greatest Family, The Sister of Later Yoshimitsu Mogami. This Yoshihime also had a family plot to marry Date Huizong, thinking that after having Huizong's flesh and bones, he would kill Huizong and take the heir of the Date family back to his own city.
But this Date Huizong is not stupid, you have Zhang Liangji to come to me over the bridge ladder. After coming and going, this Yoshihime stayed in Yonezawa and wholeheartedly became the woman of the Date family, saying that after the two became married, during their honeymoon at Kameoka Manjushri Hall (Higashi Shiki-gun), at night Yoshihime dreamed that the one-eyed monk Mankai wanted to be reincarnated because of this Ji Rui dream. It also gave birth to Date Masamune, so some people said that he was the reincarnation of the Wanhai people, and when he later went blind in one eye, he confirmed this statement even more, because the Wanhai people were one eye.
After his birth, Emperor Huizong gave Date Masamune his maiden name "Brahma Maru", and a year later, in 1568, Date Masamune's younger brother, Zhu Maru, was born. When Brahma Maru was five years old, he suffered from the smallpox that was most likely to kill young children at that time, and Date Huizong valued this eldest son very much, and ordered people to pray on brahma maru's sickbed day and night, including the Dharma seal monk who predicted that "Brahma Maru will be destroyed". In the end, Brahma Maru finally escaped this catastrophe, but was blind in his right eye and officially became a Sengoku one-eyed dragon.
After Date Masamune's mother, Yoshihime, was blinded in Brahma Maru's right eye, she felt that his appearance was very ugly. Therefore, Yoshihime transferred her love for Brahma Maru to the eleven-month-old second son of the little Brahma Maru.
In 1575, Date Selected Katakura Kojuro (Katakura Keisuke) as brahma's side (attendant). A good story began, and in 1577, Brahma Marumoto was officially renamed "Fujijiro Masamune". The name "Date Masamune" is the same name as the ninth generation of the Date clan, known as the "Ancestor of Zhongxing", and relies on being able to make a career like his ancestors.
At that time, the main opponents of the Eastern Front of the Date clan were all The Soma clan, and in order to resist the Soma clan, when Date Masamune was twelve years old, under the arrangement of Date Keimune, he married the only daughter of Aiki, who was also the daimyō of Mutsu Province and the lord of Sanharu Castle, Kiyoaki Tamura. In 1584, Date Masamune split into two factions in view of the issue of the family's future heir, and in order to stop the division of the family, Date Keizong decided to let Date Masamune succeed him as the governor of the house and announce his abdication. After the persuasion of the Qunchen, the 18-year-old Date Masamune officially succeeded him as the seventeenth generation of the Date family governor, and although Huizong himself claimed to be a hermit, he actually served as a strong backing for the new family governor, so that all the forces in the clan did not dare to act rashly.
After Succeeding Emperor Date to the throne, date Masamune pursued an active foreign policy and decided to engage the surrounding rival daimyōs. The first was to force the surrender of the Ouchi clan, who had been in a position of uncertainty among the daimyōs, and his lord Ouchi Tsuneyoshi, with the support of the Mutsu overlord Ashina Clan, refused the threat of Date Masamune, so Date Masamune attacked Ōuchi Mori castle in a big way, and the incident of Ōtemori Castle slaughtering the castle occurred. This threatened the Erben Matsubayama clan, a relative of the Ouchi clan, and The Crisis-stricken Nihon Matsuyoshi (Hatayama Yoshiji) finally went to see the retired Date Keizong in the thirteenth year of Tenshō (1585), but Nihon Matsuyoshi suddenly threatened to hold Date Keizong and threatened the Date family to make concessions. The two sides were deadlocked, and Date Masamune ordered the firing of Yoshiji's troops, resulting in the death of Yoshiji Nihonmatsu and Date Keizune under iron cannon fire, a change of the Nest of Chestnuts.
The death of his father caused Date Masamune to disregard the unfavorable diplomatic situation at that time, and only seven days after the death of Date Huizong, he rushed to send 13,000 troops to attack the Nihon Matsubashiyama clan. Satake, Ashina and other forces responded to Nimotomatsu's aid, and the combined forces of 30,000 troops fought against the Date Army on November 17 of that year on the side of the Abukuma River, which is known as the "Battle of Man Taking the Bridge". Date Masamune fought very badly with fewer enemies and more enemies, and was once on the verge of the collapse of the whole army, and the veteran general Oni Ting Zuo Yueliang was killed in battle, and he himself was almost captured. However, the fierce battle finally ushered in the night, and the Satake army took the initiative to retreat and leave the battlefield because he heard the rumor that the Mito clan was preparing to attack the Satake domain, and Satake Yoshimasa, who was also serving as a military division, was assassinated by the domestic servants. As a result, the coalition army collapsed, and the Itakata generals Katakura Keisuke and Ida took the opportunity to catch up and gain a lot.
Date Masamune's most dependent vassals were Katakura Keisuke and Idami. Itachi is known as Fujigoro, the son of Minoru's son, Seimoto, and is considered the uncle of Date Masamune by generation, but he is actually one year younger than Date Masamune. He was the right and left arm of Date Masamune and a famous general of the Takeyo-sei Oku, but in 1595, for uncertain reasons, he left the Date family and went out to Mount Koya. After that, Seiji was once out of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Uesugi Keikatsu also tried to recruit him for 50,000 stones, but was refused. Emperor Date Masamune, enraged by Chengshi's departure, sent an army to attack Kakuda Castle under Chengshi's rule, and Chengshi's wife and children were forced to commit suicide. However, after five years on the run, through the mediation of Katakura Keisuke and the remaining Masayoshi, Idaraki returned to the Date family and devoted himself to the 79th age. In his later years, he was invited to the Tokugawa shogunate as a lecturer in the "War Story", and also studied the important historical material of the Oshu Date clan, the Shōshiki Shōshū. The shōgun's helmet is said to be the front of the caterpillar to declare the belief that "never retreats", which is the last word.
Katakura Keisuke was commonly known as Koshiro, and later generations called him the continuation of Naoe of the Uesugi family as the "Second Great Companion of the World". Keimemoto was a cleric at the Yonezawa Hachiman Shrine with an unknown family lineage, and was chosen by Itachi Keimune's regent, Endo Kishin, to become the bodyguard of the young Date Masamune, while his sister (Ichigo mother) Yu Kita was Masamune's nursing mother, so Masamune obeyed him as a brother. Legend has it that Masamune suffered from herpes sores when he was a child, and his right eye was blind and bulging, which was very ugly, which hit his self-esteem, so Jing gang swung a knife and cut off Masamune's right eye with a knife, and taught Date Masamune to cheer up. In the Battle of the Bridge, Katakura Keisuke shouted "I am Date Masamune" at the most critical time, attracting the main force of the enemy army, thus saving date Masamune's life.
After the battle of man-to-bridge, Masamune accepted his lesson and began to steadily expand his territory. Because Toyotomi Hideyoshi had become a man of the world at this time and would soon send Kanto out of the army, Masamune was anxious to unify Oshu in order to prepare the cost of war or negotiation with Hideyoshi. In the second year after the Battle of Hitoshibashi (1586), he conquered Nihonmatsu Domain; in the third year (1587), he rebelled against Uchiha Prefecture's most senior vassal, Uchibe Muneyoshi, and accepted the surrender of Ouchi Dinggang; and then he fought a fierce battle with the Soma clan in order to aid his wife's mother,s mother, the Tamura clan.
Shortly after Date Masamune's return to Yonezawa Castle in 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked the Hojo clan and began to redistribute the power of the Okuwa domain, depriving the daimyo of all the territory of osaki and Kasai who had not been able to participate in the battle in time. In October of that year, the remnants of these families launched a campaign. At the beginning of the following year, the general of the crusade, The Kabushi clan, secretly reported to Hideyoshi that someone had used Masamune's flag and fingering, and that he had also seized a letter from Masamune instigating a fight. To this end, Masamune placed the gold leaf-coated pillar at the head of the queue, put himself back on the costume of a dead man, and Shangluo complained to Hideyoshi, indicating that he had nothing to do with the matter. Masamune's reasoning was that although the handwriting on the letter was quite similar to his own handwriting, Hanabi was completely different and must have been forged.
After that, Date Masamune used a completely different feminine kung fu from his earlier years, circling among Toyotomi Hideyoshi and other people who were plotting against the world. The "One-Eyed Dragon" Masamune had the ambition to unify Japan, but he did not sweep away the power of Japan, not to mention that he did not have the opportunity to obtain the favor of heaven at all. The times create heroes, without the impetus of the times, a person wants to see a bright light in the chaotic world, which is completely unrealistic imagination. The most brilliant thing about Zhengzong is probably that he finally saw the situation clearly in time and was willing to take the next position, so as to ensure that his reputation did not fall. Otherwise, it will probably be the fate of the Hojo clan.
After Hideyoshi's death, Masamune defected to Tokugawa Ieyasu and took part in the Battle of Aizu and sekigahara, capturing the Uesugi family's Shiraishi Castle, and pre-detecting and suppressing the Oshu Ichijō Rebellion. After the war, he was awarded the "Million Stone Book" by Ieyasu, and due to the victory of the Tokugawa Army under the Battle of Sekigahara, Masamune's domain was retained.
Due to the victory of the Tokugawa army belonging to the Battle of Sekigahara, Masamune's domain was retained. Ieyasu originally became a 1 million stone daimyō, but due to the revelation of incitement and The personal conquest of the Nambu clan by Emperor Hezong, he could only be increased from the original 570,000 to 620,000 daimyō and became the ancestor of the Sendai Domain, and then immediately built Sendai Castle and Joshita Town, at that time Sendai Castle was still a mountain castle, and the castle town was set up under the mountain, and there was still the heart of unifying the world (after The death of Emperor Masamune, it was rebuilt as Hirayama Castle). He participated in famous battles such as the Osaka Winter's Battle and the Osaka Summer's Battle of Toyotomi, the fierce battle with Sanada Nobutsu's forces at the Battle of Domingji in the Summer Front, and the Attack on the Tokugawa forces at tennoji Temple and Okayama, and the fratricidal killing caused the total annihilation of the Kamho Shoshige forces, and it is necessary to explain the events.
In addition, in the political field, he sent his courtiers to Rome to meet with the envoys of the Holy See and successfully traded in foreign countries. It also successfully made the Sendai area the center of gravity of the economy. After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, he served as a shogun's Shangkyo shrine many times. Later generations of fans commented that he was born twenty years early, and his achievements were like Nobunaga's hegemony", although he had the ambition to make a career, but it was difficult to escape the bad luck of not being timely. On May 24, 1636, the reclusive Masamune died of illness in Edo at the age of 70, visited by Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, and died a few days later. The Dharma name Ruiyan Temple Hall Zhenshan Zen Temple, the tomb is located in the Ruifeng Hall, 15 family ministers and 5 companions were martyred.