Draft:Hosokawa Akimoto

Hosokawa Akimoto
細川昭元
Born
Sōmei-maru

1548
Died1592 or 1615
SpouseOinu no Kata
ChildrenHosokawa Motokatsu

Enko-in

(unnamed daughter)
Parents
Relatives Hosokawa clan

Hosokawa Akimoto (細川 昭元, Hosokawa Akimoto, 1548 – 1592 or 1615) was a military commander and feudal lord from the Sengoku period to the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He was the guardian of Awa, Settsu, and Tanba provinces. He was Senior Fifth Rank and Ukyo-no-daibu (head of the western part of Kyoto's administration). He was the 19th head of the Hosokawa family. Born Sōmei-maru (聡明丸) to Hosokawa Harumoto and Rokkaku Sadayori, he came of age during a period of internal strife for the Hosokawa clan.

In 1575 he was appointed Ukyo-no-daibu on Oda Nobunaga's reccomendation. It is written in the Shinchō Kōki that, upon receiving this appointment, he was given a stipend along with two districts in Tanba province.[1][2]

His wife died in 1582 shortly following the Honnō-ji Incident. In the aftermath he resisted Toyotomi Hideyoshi's attacks on Shikoku, and (unsuccessfully) attempted to form an alliance between Chōsokabe Motochika and Oda Nobukatsu.[3]

Reports differ about the manner and date of his death, with the Hosokawa geneaology saying he died of illness in 1592 while the death register implies he died on 7 November 1615.

References

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  1. ^ Taniguchi, Katsuhiro (1995). Akisaku, Takagi; Yoshikawa, Kobunkan (eds.). 『織田信長家臣人名事典』 [Biographical Dictionary of Oda Nobunaga's Retainers] (in Japanese).
  2. ^ Miyamoto, Yoshiki (2010). 『誰も知らなかった江』 [The River No One Knew About] (in Japanese). 毎日コミュニケーションズ. p. 117.
  3. ^ Yamashita, Tomoyuki (2016). "「天正後期の細川信良と長宗我部氏との関係 -細川信良書状の分析を通じて-」" ["The relationship between Hosokawa Nobuyoshi and the Chosokabe clan in the late Tensho period: through an analysis of letters written by Hosokawa Nobuyoshi,"]. 『戦国史研究』(Sengoku History Research): 12–13.