Ishida Mitsunari is a historical figure and a character in the games. mintsuari isida

In Kyuto. This is a famous Japanese warrior, whose defeat in the famous Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 allowed the Tokugawa family to become the undisputed rulers of Japan.

Biography of Ishida Mitsunari

Around 1578, he was recruited into the service of Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi. In fact, Ishida Mitsunari lived in an era of unrest. During his military service in Shizugataka and elsewhere, his main function was administrative. For its service, it received a property yielding 200,000 koku of rice and Sawayama Castle in Omi. Many did not trust him and many did not like him. Partly because of his "civilian" background, partly because of the power he wielded in the Toyotomi government. He issued numerous orders from Hideyoshi and often acted as his representative. He was sent to Korea during the second campaign in 1597.

The following year after the Korean campaign, with the support of three regents (Mori Terumoto, Uesugi Kagekatsu, and Ukita Hiddi), Mitsunari rallied many daimyo (mostly from the western provinces) against Ieyasu. One of his first actions was to take as hostages the wives of Tokugawa supporters who ended up in Osaka. On August 22, the Sekigahara campaign began.

A respected warrior who reunited Japan after more than a century of civil war, Ishida Mitsunari was appointed head of a small feudal family and soon became one of the most prominent officials in the new government. After Hideyoshi's death in 1598, he retained his state position, but real power was exercised by a council of five regents acting on behalf of Hideyoshi's son Hideyori. The first among the regents was Tokugawa Ieyasu, and in 1599, when Ishida Mitsunari tried to improve his position by trying to sow discord among the Japanese aristocracy, some of Tokugawa's assistants favored his execution, but Tokugawa decided to spare him.

Military defeat

The following year, however, Ishida Mitsunari convinced Uesugi Kagekatsu, one of the five regents, to turn against the Tokugawa. While the Tokugawa troops were diverted to fight the Uesugi in the north, Ishida gathered many other lords to his side and attacked the Tokugawa positions from the rear. The Tokugawa quickly returned from the north to defeat Ishida Mitsunari's forces at Sekigahara. The capture of Ishida marked the last major standoff against the Tokugawa government, and in 1603 the Tokugawa assumed the hereditary title of shogun, or military dictator, a title held by the Tokugawa family until 1868.

Game and anime character

Sengoku BASARA 3 is the third installment of the video game franchise created by Capcom. This was the first game to feature Ishida Mitsunari as a character. The reason for its introduction was that the game covered the Sekigahara campaign that began after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In Sengoku BASARA 3, Tokugawa Ieyasu killed Hideyoshi before he could subdue the entire country. Mitsunari was extremely loyal to Hideyoshi and took his death very hard, mostly due to Ieyasu's betrayal. Hideyoshi's service was his life, and the man he once considered an ally took everything from him in an instant. Depending on which story mode the player chooses, the outcome of the Battle of Sekigahara changes.

The anime series that follows the game, Sengoku BASARA: Judge End, dives more into the characters' personalities to show the relationship between them. This shows that there was a friendship between Ieyasu and Mitsunari that ended due to betrayal.

This character is quite popular, and this popularity has made Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari frequent topics of slash about the era of unrest.

I'll put everything here that I managed to gnaw. Warning: google translator. You need to check for me (hello, Anya! :-). Checked. Thank you very much, Shmyrina_Anna!

Once Hideyoshi was returning from falconry, he felt thirsty and taxied either to the Kannon temple on Mount Ibuki, in Omi, or to the temple of the Three Treasures, in the village of Furuhashi-mura, Ika district. Tea was served by a young novice. He brought the first cup barely warm, the second hot, and the third hot. Warm tea quenched thirst, hot - allowed to enjoy the actual taste of tea. Hideyoshi appreciated this matter and took the novice with him. This is how, according to legend, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Ishida Mitsunari met. And the episode is called: "Three cups of tea."

The story, again, about tea - and the friendship of Ishida Mitsunari with the leper Otani Yoshitsugu - is well known. At the tea ceremony at Hideyoshi's, Otani Yoshitsugu, who was ill with leprosy, drank tea from a bowl thrown around in a circle - and pus dripped into it. The people silently shuddered and passed the cup on, only pretending to drink. And Mitsunari drank to the bottom. Yoshitsugu was terribly touched and was friends with Mitsunari until the very end - until Sekigahara. After the defeat, he seppuknulsya.

Hideyoshi ordered that a well be dug at Fushimi Castle. The hill is high there, the groundwater is deep, the work was not going too fast. Until Mitsunari poured a bag of money into the well. That well motivated the builders and dramatically accelerated the process.

After the defeat at Sekigahara, Mitsunari went into hiding in his native province of Omi. I stopped by the same Temple of the Three Treasures in the village of Furuhashi-mura. To the polite question of the abbot: "What do you want?" replied: "The head of Ieyasu." What scared the abbot pretty much.
Later hid in a cave; food was brought to him by the local peasant Yojiro Dayu - having previously divorced his wife, so that in which case she would not be punished with him too. And Mitsunari, not wanting to bring trouble to this worthy man, persuaded himself to betray. So they competed in nobility, until a certain Tanaka Yoshimasa, sent by Tokugawa to search for Mitsunari, promised to slaughter the entire village.
Addition from Shmyrina_Anna:
Tanaka and gingerbread offered: a reward for extradition. And since the village was dying of hunger, Yojiro ended up being terribly grateful that Mitsunari insisted on surrendering himself - the inhabitants received premium rice and survived.

And according to another version, Mitsunari found supporters in this village (Furuhashi-mura), promising to fight Ieyasu again, defeat him, and then roll up the entire territory from Furuhashi-mura to Lake Biwa-ko in asphalt. In the sense, to build a stone road. But Yojiro's adopted son, wanting to curry favor with Tokugawa, surrendered Mitsunari. After that, the people of Furuhashi-mura made it a rule not to adopt non-natives.

About kosode Entrecote told. This is after the capture.
The fact is that three were to be executed. Ankokuji Ekeya (either Ieyasu didn’t like him for some reason, or he just wanted to emphasize that there was nothing for the monks to interfere in the war), Konishi Yukinagu (everything was simple here, Don Augustine, against whom, it seems, no one personally had anything, to a polite offer to commit suicide, he replied that suicide is a mortal sin, and what to do with this situation is your problem, I am not your assistant, you are the rebels, not me) and, in fact, Mitsunari. And since all three were taken from the battle, then they look appropriate. Three kosode are brought here. The first two take, Mitsunari is interested in - from whom. From his lordship (something like that) from Edo. Mitsunari explodes - there are no lordships in the country, except for Mr. Hideyori - and since when did Ieyasu allow himself to be so forgotten in order to be called that?
Well, that begs the question, isn't it a literalist?

Ieyasu visited Mitsunari before his execution and spoke in the spirit that it was not a shame to lose a war. And that Mitsunari is a real commander, not like Taira no Munemori. (*)
(*) Taira no Munemori is known for the fact that not only Gempei blew the war, but also could not kill himself. His own people pushed him overboard - but then it turned out that he also knows how to swim! Came out, to the shame of the Taira house. His mother shouted goodbye to him that he was not her own.

Mitsunari, who was awaiting execution, asked for a drink, and the guards replied that there was no water, but there was persimmon. "No," said Mitsunari, "what if she's poisoned?.."
The guards had a lot of fun: the one sentenced to decapitation is afraid of poison. To which Mitsunari replied with complete self-control: "Whoever has ambitious aspirations, he values ​​\u200b\u200blife until the last minute."

Phew. still dofiga tales.

P.S. If I understood correctly, there were also rumors that the biological father of Hideyori (Hideyoshi's heir from Yodo-dono) was not Hideyoshi at all, but Mitsunari. And that Hideyoshi himself was almost the same Mitsunari and slammed. Current historians believe that these rumors were fabricated in the middle of the Edo-era. It is clear who and why.

P.P.S. I don't see any saw yet. "Beheaded on the beach at Sanjo in Kyoto."

Update from Entrecote:
I’m sitting reading a collection where a group of American Japaneseists disembowel Clavell - and Smith writes that in reality there was such a thing with a saw - but it was so much earlier that the monk who attempted to assassinate Prince Oda was executed (by the way, it seems, using an arquebus) (and that this guillol story impressed everyone so much that later this death was tried on by anyone). And in the case of Mitsunari, there was nothing like that - they executed three people, in Kyoto, in the bed of a dry river, by a completely normal procedure - no saw and no passers-by.
(There was no saw. no).

And more about the Philippines, from Entrecote:
The fact is that citizens were going to visit Luzon twice. The second time - in alliance with the Dutch. And if it worked out, then of course no one would close the country. The second time the uprising in Shimabara prevented, or rather, how it was suppressed. Iemitsu gasped, gasped, imagined what would happen if they faced a real opponent, and buried the project. But literally a year before that, he had been warned about the peacetime army that Tokugawa had bred, and the consequences of its practical application - in an open, boorish text - warned and advised not to pay attention to the first failures, because they are completely inevitable in this situation - _this_ does not know how to fight and learn only from bitter experience, alas ...
Warned, of course, Mr. Dragon.

(Japanese 石田 三成?, 1559 (1559) - November 6, 1600) - samurai commander of medieval Japan during the Sengoku period. Vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Five Rulers under his son Toyotomi Hideyori. He was the commander-in-chief of the troops of the "western coalition" in the battle of Sekigahara. After being defeated in it, he was executed by order of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

• 1 Biography
• 2 Ishida Mitsunari in culture
  • 2.1 Film and television adaptations
  • 2.2 Computer and console games
• 3 Links

Biography

Mitsunari was born in Omi Province (modern Shiga Prefecture) and was the second son of Ishida Masatsugu, a vassal of the Azai clan. His childhood name was Sakichi(佐吉). After the destruction of the suzerain family in 1573 by Oda Nobunaga, Ishida began to serve the Oda family. Mitsunari himself became a vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of Nobunaga's generals, who received the former possessions of the Azai family as a reward for military service.

During Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign against the Mori clan in the Chugoku region, Ishida Mitsunari developed plans to take the castles by economic blockade. Thanks to his ingenious developments, Hideyoshi was able to capture such powerful castles as Tottori Castle and Takamatsu Fortress without great loss of life.

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi became the de facto ruler of Japan in 1584, Ishida Mitsunari proved to be a talented administrator and financier. He was especially good at understanding mathematics and various calculations. Since 1585, Mitsunari was appointed manager of the trading city of Sakai (he shared this position with his older brother Ishida Masazumi), whose profits he tripled. For economic merits, Toyotomi Hideyoshi gave him Sawayama Castle in Omi Province (modern Shiga Prefecture), which, through the efforts of Ishida, was transformed into one of the most impregnable castles in the country.

Thanks to his heightened sense of justice and punctuality, Mitsunari quickly became famous, but it was these traits that led to the appearance of many enemies in him, primarily among his fellow samurai, including Hideyoshi's relative Fukushima Masanori.

After the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Mitsunari, he headed the board of trustees of the five rulers under the son of the late overlord, Toyotomi Hideyori. He came into conflict with Tokugawa Ieyasu, chairman of another tutelary structure - the council of five elders, who sought to seize power in the country.

In 1599, two coalitions were formed that fought for supremacy in the Toyotomi family. The "Eastern coalition" was headed by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the "Western" - by Ishida Mitsunari. The decisive battle took place in 1600 on the Sekigahara plain, in which the troops of the "Westerners" were defeated. Tokugawa's victory was brought about by betrayal in the enemy camp. After the battle, Ishida Mitsunari fled but was caught and beheaded in Kyoto. After his execution, his head was displayed to the people of Kyoto. Nevertheless, rumors spread that his head mysteriously disappeared a few days later. Other daimyo of the Western Coalition, such as Konishi Yukinaga and Ankokuji Ekei, were also executed.

Mitsunari had three sons (Shigeie, Shigenari and Sakichi) and three daughters (only the name of the youngest is known, Tatsuko) by his wife and another child by a concubine.

Ishida Mitsunari in culture

Film and television adaptations

• 1965 - Film Fūrai ninpō-jō - Shunji Sakai
• 1978 - The series "Ogon no hibi" / "Golden Days" (based on the novel by Shiroyama Saburo), starting from the 18th episode - Masaomi Kondo
• 1980 - Mini-series "Shogun" based on the novel of the same name by James Clavell (based on Isis, the character of the daimyō Ishido) - Nobuo Kaneko
• 2008 - BBC Series Heroes and Villains, episode "Shogun" - Hiro Kanagawa
• 2009 - The series "Heaven, earth and people"
• 2012 - Film "Floating Castle" (Japan).
• 2014 - The series "Kambei Strategist"

Computer and console games

• Kessen (one of the three commanders under Toyotomi's hand)
• Samurai Warriors 2
• Samurai Warriors Katana
• Saihai no Yukue (main character)

• Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams (one of the main antagonists)
• Sengoku Basara 3

• Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties (antagonist)

Links

Ishida Mitsunari Information About

Participation in wars: Civil wars.
Participation in battles: Battle of Sekigahara.

(Ishida Mitsunari) p warlord of medieval Japan, commander-in-chief of the "Western coalition" troops

Mitsunari was born in Omi, he was the 2nd son of Ishida Masatsugu. As a child, he bore the name Sakichi. In 1573 Mitsunari became a vassal Toyotomi Hideyoshi, general Nobunaga, who was awarded for military service by the former possessions of the Azai family.

During Toyotomi Hideyoshi Mitsunari developed plans for economic blockades of castles. Thanks to his phenomenal developments, Hideyoshi captured the powerful castles of Tottori and Takamatsu without much loss of life.

In 1584 Ishida Mitsunari showed himself as a talented administrator and financier. He was very good at mathematics and various calculations. In 1585, Mitsunari became the manager of the city of Sakai, whose profits he tripled. Toyotomi Hideyoshi presented him with Sawayama Castle for merit, which, thanks to Ishida, was transformed into one of the most impregnable castles in the country.

Mitsunari quickly became famous for his heightened sense of justice and punctuality, however, it was these traits that contributed to the appearance of his enemies, mainly among the samurai.

Mitsunari took over the board of trustees of the five departments when the vassal Toyotomi Hideyoshi died. He came into conflict with the chairman of the Council of the Five Elders - Tokugawa Ieyasu who aspired to power in the country.

In 1599, two coalitions were formed that wanted to lead the supremacy of the Toyotomi family. "Western coalition" headed Ishida Mitsunari, and "Eastern" - Tokugawa Ieyasu.

In 1600 a decisive Battle of the Sekigahara Plain in which the "Western coalition" was defeated. victory Tokugawa owes to betrayal in the camp of the enemy. Ishida Mitsunari fled after the battle, but was caught by peasants and executed in Kyoto. He was beheaded - buried up to his neck in the ground and slowly sawed off his head with a blunt saw.

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