The Azai clan (浅井氏 Azai-shi?) was a line of daimyo (feudal lords) during Japan's Sengoku period that was based in Ōmi Province (present day Shiga Prefecture). The ( were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. For other meanings of Omi see Omi (disambiguation. is an old province of Japan which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. The Azai clan, along with the Asakura clan, opposed Oda Nobunaga in the late 16th century. The are descendants of Prince Kusakabe (662-689 son of Emperor Temmu (631-686 ( June 23, 1534 &ndash June 21, 1582) was a major Daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history They were defeated by him at the Battle of Anegawa in 1570, and all but eliminated when their home castle, Odani Castle, was taken three years later. The 1570 came as a reaction to Oda Nobunaga 's sieges of the castles of Odani and Yokoyama which belonged to the Azai and Asakura clans was a Sengoku period mountain-top castle located in the present day town of Kohoku in Higashiazai District, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
Azai of Note
- Azai Sukemasa - established Odani Castle in 1516
- Azai Hisamasa - son of Sukemasa, was defeated by the Sasaki clan
- Azai Nagamasa - son of Hisamasa, came into conflict with Oda Nobunaga and opposed him, entering an alliance with the Asakura clan and the monks of Mt. Hiei; he was eventually defeated by Nobunaga in 1570. ( 1491 - January 21, 1546) built Odani Castle for the Azai clan, including his son Azai Hisamasa, to rule was a son of Azai Sukemasa and the second head of the Azai clan. are a historical Japanese clan They are descended directly from Emperor Uda (868-897 by his grandson Minamoto no Masanobu (920-993 (Uda-Genji but were adopted by the was a Daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japan His clan the Azai were located in northern Ōmi Province, east of Lake Biwa were Buddhist warrior monks of feudal Japan. At certain points of history they held considerable power obliging the imperial and military governments to collaborate is a mountain to the northeast of Kyoto city lying on the border between the Kyoto and Shiga prefectures Japan. His daughters included Yodo-Dono (second wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and mother of Toyotomi Hideyori) and Oeyo (wife of Tokugawa Hidetada and mother of the third Tokugawa shogun Iemitsu). also known as Yodo-Gimi (淀君 and sometimes Lady Chacha, was one of the most favoured Concubines of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the niece of the great Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣 秀頼 Toyotomi Hideyori) 1593 - June 5, 1615, was the son and designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Oeyo (於江与 or Satoko (達子 or Sūgen'in (崇源院 1573 &ndash September 15, 1626) was the wife of Tokugawa Hidetada (the was the second Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623 The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the, and the, was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the Shoguns of Tokugawa Iemitsu (徳川 家光 August 12, 1604 — June 8, 1651) sometimes
References
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
- Turnbull, Stephen (2002). 'War in Japan: 1467-1615'. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
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