Masamoto Hosokawa
The early history of Japan's Sengoku period is not well known because games, film and television dramas are rarely involved, but it is also very exciting. To say that the strongest daimyo in the early Sengoku period of Japan, the editor thought it was Hosokawa Masamoto. At that time, Hosokawa Masamoto could be said to be the supreme ruler behind the shogun, known as the "half general".
Hosokawa clan
Hosokawa is a branch of kiyowa genji Ashikaga. Ashikaga Yoshiyasu's descendant Yoshiki moved to Hosokawa in the Mikawa Kingdom and changed his name to Hosokawa clan. Hosokawa also originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and one of the Hosokawa Lai lineages of Lai Yuan, Man Yuan, and Zhi Zhi served as the shogun's governor, assisting the shogun in charge of government affairs, and his status was second only to that of the shogun, and he was jointly known as the "Three Pipe Collars" with Shiro and Hatoyama.
Hosokawa Katsumoto
Hosokawa Masamoto was from the Hosokawa clan's main family, the Kyojō family, and his father, whom we all know, was Hosokawa Katsumoto, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army at the time of the Onin Rebellion. Hosokawa Katsumoto succeeded the governor at the age of 13 and took up the position of steward at the age of 16, and then united with the Yamamyo clan to remove Hatoyama, but unexpectedly the two sides disagreed over the succession of the Ashikaga shogun's family and the succession of the Spo family's family governor.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Ashikaga Yoshimasa was very jealous of the Spo family, which controlled the largest regular army in the shogunate, and provoked the rebellion of the Shōjō clan ministers Kafue Tsuneharu and Kafue Toshimitsu, and also forced Spo Yoshitoshi to lead his troops to quell the rebellion of Heide, and Spo Yoshitoshi rebelled and destroyed the Kafue clan. The enraged Ashikaga Yoshimasa deposed Spo Yoshitoshi and made Spo Yoshinori the new governor, and Spo Yoshinori's mother was a yamanabi family member, and the Yamana clan of course supported it, while Hosokawa Masamoto had a good relationship with Spo Yoshitoshi, and the Hosokawa family and the Yamana clan's ryōko were thus married.
The Rebellion of Ying Ren
However, the matter did not end there, Spaugh Yoshinori's father was deposed, and the Osaki family refused to join forces with the Spok family, who had no main bloodline, to put an end to the chaos, which caused Ashikaga Yoshimasa a headache, and he abolished Spō Yoshinori and re-established Spo Yoshitoshi. The relationship between Hosokawa and Yamana was completely broken, and Yamana Muneyoshi formed an alliance with Spo Yoshinori, Hatoyama Yoshinori, and Ōuchi Masahiro, and Hosokawa Katsumoto formed an alliance with Spo Yoshitoshi and Hatoyama, and the Onin Rebellion broke out.
After the Onin Rebellion, the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori was exiled, and the shogunate established an autocratic system of administration. After that, the Muromachi shogunate became the governing power headed by the Hosokawa clan, and Hosokawa Masamoto held real power in the shogunate. The heyday of the Hosokawa clan was during the reign of the Eastern Army commander Hosokawa Katsumoto and the semi-general Hosokawa Masamoto. Hosokawa Masamoto served as the guardian of the five kingdoms of Awa, Koki, Tosa, Watazumi, and Settsu, and his sphere of influence expanded to Omi, Yamato, Harima, and Tanba at its peak (after the Ming Dynasty), and even covered the entire near region.
Hosokawa Masamoto successively supported Ōtomo Masamune, Niko Nagahisa, Akamatsu Masanori, and others against the Ōuchi and Yamanai clans of nishikuni. Hexagonal Takarai of Minami Omi, and Takeda Motonobu of Wakasa are his allies. Not only that, but he also sent his adopted son, Hosokawa Sumino, and others to fight against the Izusa family, deposed the shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori, and established the puppet shogun Ashikaga Yoshitaka, completely controlling the shogunate.
The Hosokawa family really covered the sky with one hand in the Zhengyuan era, but unfortunately, Zhengyuan, like his old son Shengyuan, was a comic on the issue of life enlightenment. Masamoto was particularly interested in government affairs, devoted himself to cultivation, and handed over mundane affairs to his subordinates, which also laid the groundwork for the later two adopted sons, Chengzhi and Chengyuan, to compete for power and the usurpation of power by the Miyoshi clan.
As a result, we also saw that the Hosokawa Rebellion directly depleted the vitality of the Hosokawa family, and the real power of the shogunate gradually passed into the hands of the Miyoshi clan of the family, and by the time of the last head of the Hosokawa clan, the Hosokawa clan and the Muromachi shogunate had become puppet puppets. Nevertheless, Hosokawa Masamoto remained the strongest daimyō in the early Sengoku period of Japan.
Who were the most powerful names in the early Sengoku period of Japan? He was the supreme ruler, known as the "half-general"