Takataka Kuroda (22 December 1546 – 19 April 1604) was a Japanese warlord of the Azuchi-Momoyama period and a Catholic daimyō. The son of Kuroda Nobutaka, a vassal of Koji and lord of Himeji Castle, his mother was Kodera's adopted daughter of Kodera Masamune, his wife was the daughter of Hibashi Idin (Japanese: 櫛櫛橋橋定), and his son Kuroda Nagamasa was the first lord of the Fukuoka Domain of Chikuzen Domain.
It was pronounced "祐隆" (すけたか), "孝隆" (よしたか), later changed to "孝高", generally known as Kuroda Officers and Soldiers, and the monastic legal name was Kuroda Rushui. From the standpoint of Hideyoshi's confidant, he was active in both military strategy and diplomacy. Shigeharu Takenaka (Hanbei) was Hideyoshi's most important staff officer, And had a major influence on his conquest of the world, and was later known as the "Two Guards".
The Kuroda family originated in the village of Kuroda in Omi-gun, and the lineage originated from the Haruma Genji clan (Kyogoku clan), a branch of the Uta Genji Sasaki clan (Kyogoku clan) of the Kamakura period. Takato's grandfather, Kuroda Shigetaka, was appointed lord of the Castle of Harima Province, Koji, and attached great importance to the Kuroda clan, appointing Shigetaka as a heavy minister and in the 14th year of astronomy (1545), he was appointed lord of Himeji Castle. He also married his adopted daughter to Kuroda Nobutaka, the son of Shigetaka, and gave his surname to the Kuroda family.
Takaga was born on November 29, 1546 (December 22, 1546) in Himeji Castle, Haruma Kingdom, and was born as Mankyoshi. After the death of his mother in 1559, he became fascinated by literature. In the 5th year of Yonglu (1562), he became a close attendant of the main shogun Koji. In the same year, he first joined the army and fought with his father Kuroda Thiru to conquer the local tycoons. In the 7th year of The Year of Nagara (1564), Takato's sister married Urakami Kiyomune (Japanese: Urakami Kiyozong), and on the day of the wedding, he went to the lord of Tatsuno Castle, Akamatsu Masahide, to lead an attack and died. In the 10th year of Nagaroku (1567), Takataka succeeded his father Tsurugi as the governor of the house and the old family, and married Hikari (てる), the daughter of Koji's nephew Kushibashi Idin, as the main chamber, and was appointed as Himeji Castle. In the 12th year of Nagaroku (1569), Akamatsu Masahide, supported by Katsumasa Ikeda, Yasuharu Besho, and Naoya Ugita, who supported Ashikaga Yoshiaki, led 3,000 soldiers to attack Himeji Castle, but Takashi used raids and other tactics to repel only 300 reinforcements from Miki Tōaki (Japanese: Miki Tōaki) with only 300 troops, for the "Battle of Aoyama Tokiyama (Japanese: Aoyama,土器山の戦い)".
Masahide surrendered to Urakami Muneaki. In the first year of Tenshō (1573), the Daimyo of the Kodera clan and other haramers were caught among the two major forces that had rebelled against Asai Nagamasa, exiled the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki and successfully expanded his power in, and Mori Keigen, who had won Sanyo yamao (Urakami Muneyoshi defected to Nobunaga and Ukita Naoto to Keigen). In the 3rd year of Tenshō (1575), Takashi was appreciated by Nobunaga for his talents and persuaded the lord Koji to submit to the Oda clan of Takeda Katsurai in the Battle of Nagashina. In July of the same year, at the arrangement of Hideyoshi Haba, he went to Gifu Castle to meet Nobunaga. He also went to Kyoto to meet with Hirohide Akamatsu (Japanese: Masato Yuki Mura) and Osamu Betsuji.
On the other hand, in September of the same year, Muneyoshi was defeated by the Ukita Naoya clan, who had defected to the Maori clan. In the 4th year of Tenshō (1576), the Maori clan of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was in exile, was welcomed, and Urasa,Ōmune, under the command of the admiral Hayakawa Takakei, was sent to land with 5,000 troops from Eiga under the Munali alliance of Miki Tōaki and marched into Harima, but Takao only repelled the Mori Miki army with 500 troops.00 After the battle, Takashi sent his eldest son Matsushimaru (later Kuroda Nagamasa) to Nobunaga as a hostage. In the autumn of the 5th year of Tenshō (1577), after Nobunaga attacked Matsunaga Hideyoshi at the Battle of Nobukiyama Castle, He ordered Hideyoshi Shiba to enter Haruma. Takato moved the clan to His father Kushikō's Shikigun Prefecture Yamashiro Kozan, and provided Himeji Castle to Hideyoshi, while he himself lived in Ninomaru and became active as a staff officer. He then followed Hashiba Hidenaga in attacking Takeda Castle (Danma Kingdom), which was under the jurisdiction of Ota Gakikei, and participated with Masakatsu Wasuga. In the 6th year of Tenshō (1578), Arakimura, who had once surrendered to Oda Nobunaga, raised the anti-banner again (the Battle of Arioka Castle), and Takataka went to Itami Castle (Arioka Castle) to persuade him to surrender, but instead he was detained, Nobunaga thought that Takashi taka had rebelled, and ordered Matsushimaru to be executed, but fortunately Takenaka Shigeharu rescued him (hiding in Takeaka Shigeji's residence: Iwate Yamashita Castle).
A year later, Oka Castle fell, and Takao returned to Himeji Castle with Matsushou Maru, but because Takashi was imprisoned in a poor and cramped cell for a whole year, his left leg was atrophied and his knee joints were deformed, and his head was full of tinea caps.
Under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he was known for his ingenuity and was called two guards with Shigeharu Takenaka (Takenaka Hanbei). In the 14th year of Tenshō (1586), the imperial court gave him five subordinate officials to participate in the Kyushu Offensive, and contributed greatly to the victory in the war against Shimazu. The following year Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Kyushu. After the war, it was given 125,000 stones to Toyomae Kunitsu Castle. Toyotomiya Hideyoshi originally promised Utsunomiya to retain the territory of the six counties of Toyomae Province, but was later renamed Iyokaku (Ehime Prefecture), and Kuroda Takataka was changed from Yamazaki (Haruma Kingdom) to Toyomae Domain, and when he entered the Toyotomiya Kingdom, Utsunomiya Town House in Joi valley (Japanese: Joi valley castle), no Nakanaka Town (Japanese: Nagai Castle ( Toyo Magun)) of No naka-kan (Japanese: No Nakasaka Kana) raised troops to rebel, Kuroda Takataka gave each blow, and in 1588, For the sake of stability in the territory, Kuroda Nagamasa booby-trapped the Utsunomiya clan Kuroda Takashi killed Utsunomiya Asaka (Japanese: Utsunomiya Asaka) before suppressing the Higo Kingdom rebellion. Takayama received Catholic baptism earlier than Kuroda Takataka, and due to the prohibition of religion by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in July 15 (1587), Takayama was exiled for rebellion, and Kuroda Takato led by example and renounced religion; making it impossible for Catholics and missionaries to spread the faith, which had an impact on the Catholic princes at that time. This can be seen from the fragments of the book left by Louis Floys at that time.
In 1589, Tenshō ceded the position of governor to Kuroda Nagamasa and retired, but remained active around Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the following year, he made great contributions to the conquest of Hojo Odawara, and in coordinating the final battle, Toyotomi Hideyoshi gave the famous sword Nikko Ichiji (owned by the Hara clan, now a national treasure, in the collection of the Fukuoka City Museum). In the 2nd year of Bunroku (1593), Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent an army against Korea (the Battle of Bunroku Kyungchang), kuroda Takao had a dispute with Ishida Sansei, one of the five practices, angering Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Kuroda Takashi became a monk with the name "Like Water Yuanqing".
In 1600, five years after The death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (September 18, 1598), Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of the Five Elders, went east against Aizu's Uesugi Keikatsu, while Ishida Mitsunori led a western army against Tokugawa Ieyasu in Sekigahara. Kuroda Nagamasa was fighting in Sekigahara under the eastern army, Kuroda Takataka led nine thousand Kuroda troops at Nakatsu Castle in Kyushu Toyomae Domain, defeated the Otomo Yoshitomo who had received support from the Maori family in an attempt to restore the old lordship, and believed that it was not difficult for Kami-Raku and the acquisition of the world to ignite ambitions [source request], hiding in the name of the Eastern Army Tokugawa Ieyasu with the goal of capturing the world [source request] attacked the city and plundered the land, capturing seven kingdoms (only Satsuma and Osumi) including Toyozen, Bungo, Chikuzen, Hizen, and Hyuga (only Satsuma and Osumi), Kuroda Takashi's actions had a tendency to promote the unification of Kyushu. However, when the battle of Sekigahara was settled within a day, Kuroda Takataka gave up the struggle for hegemony and lived in seclusion without asking about political affairs.
On March 20, 1604 (April 19, 1604), he died at the Fushimi Domain in Kyoto at the age of 59. A Catholic ceremonial funeral is held after death, and a Buddhist-style funeral is held fifteen or twenty days after the burial of his son Changzheng. The name of the law is the Great Resident of the Dragon Light Temple. The tombs are located at Sofu-ji Temple, Chiyo-Hirotake-san, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City, and Ryuho-san Daitoku-ji Temple, Kita-ku, Kyoto City.
On November 13, 1902 (Meiji 35), three were presented.