Rokkaku Yoshisuke
Rokkaku Yoshisuke (六角義介)(died 1612) was the son of Rokkaku Yoshikata; and, after 1562, he took responsibility for administration in his father's Namazue domain in Japan's Ōmi Province.[1]
During the Sengoku period, Japan's social and legal culture evolved in ways unrelated to the well-known history of serial battles and armed skirmishes. A number of forward-looking daimyōs independently promulgated codes of conduct to be applied within a specific han or domain. Few examples of these daimyō-made law codes have survived, but the legal framework contrived by the Rokkaku clan remains amongst the small number of documents which can still be studied In 1567, the Rokkaku-shi shikimoku is promulgated.[2]
In 1570, He fought in the failed Siege of Chōkō-ji. Then in 1572, Namazue was besieged and defeated by the forces of Oda Nobunaga, led by Shibata Katsuie.[3]
The series of defeat in the late 1560s and early 1570s signaled the end of the Rokkaku clan's independence.[4] The Rokkaku became vassals of Oda Nobunaga.
Yoshisuke later served one of Nobunaga's former generals, Tokugawa Ieyasu. During the Edo period, his descendants were ranked amongst the kōke.[1]
Notes
- Papinot, Edmund (2003). Nobiliaire du japon, p. 53.
- Katsumata Shizuo et al. (1981). "The Development of Sengoku Law" in Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650, p. 102.
- Turnbull, Stephen (2000). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & C0. p. 74,220. ISBN 1854095234.
- Sansom, George Bailey. (1961). A History of Japan: 1334-1615, pp. 278-279.
References
- Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867. Münster: Tagenbuch. ISBN 3-8258-3939-7
- Papinot, Edmund. (1906) Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon illustré de 300 gravures, de plusiers cartes, et suivi de 18 appendices. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha...Click link for digitized 1906 Nobiliaire du japon (2003)
- Sansom, George Bailey. (1961). A History of Japan: 1334-1615. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0524-0 ISBN 0-8047-0525-9
- Shizuo, Katsumata and Martin Collcutt. (1981). "The Development of Sengoku Law" in Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650. John Whitney Hall, editor, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Turnbull, Stephen R. (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Arms & Armour Press, 1998. ISBN 1-85409-371-1; reprinted by Cassell & Co., London, 2000. ISBN 1-85409-523-4