Zen Blade
12-11-2000, 13:26
My everpresent obsession with the Asai. (if you have been in the history forum for the last half year or so, you knew what was coming after the "...")
-something I just kind of realized, while looking through some sorted materials while trying to figure out a couple of names of cities.
-As most of us know, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's yodo-gimi and Tokugawa Ieyasu's son's wife were both daughters of Asai Nagamasa.
-however, another interesting thing, which I just put together is the fact that Ishida Mitsunari is from Omi and his father (who was alive until after Sekigahara)reportedly served under the Asai.
talk about your coincidences.
so, although the Asai clan was destroyed in 1573, they had strong connections [in a background sense... kind of like how Hideyoshi and a few other important figures-who went from page-boys to generals-were from the same general area] to both factions at Sekigahara and the later Osaka.
now, of course this is probably no big deal since marriages for political purposes were always being made and such... but still, it's kind of wierd to see a clan that was utterly destroyed to have several ppl that were related to them [two daughters by blood and one retainer's son] present at the final two decisive battles of the Sengoku Jidai... and in rather prestiguous positions none-the-less.
-Zen Blade
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Zen Blade Asai
Red Devil
Last of the RSG
-something I just kind of realized, while looking through some sorted materials while trying to figure out a couple of names of cities.
-As most of us know, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's yodo-gimi and Tokugawa Ieyasu's son's wife were both daughters of Asai Nagamasa.
-however, another interesting thing, which I just put together is the fact that Ishida Mitsunari is from Omi and his father (who was alive until after Sekigahara)reportedly served under the Asai.
talk about your coincidences.
so, although the Asai clan was destroyed in 1573, they had strong connections [in a background sense... kind of like how Hideyoshi and a few other important figures-who went from page-boys to generals-were from the same general area] to both factions at Sekigahara and the later Osaka.
now, of course this is probably no big deal since marriages for political purposes were always being made and such... but still, it's kind of wierd to see a clan that was utterly destroyed to have several ppl that were related to them [two daughters by blood and one retainer's son] present at the final two decisive battles of the Sengoku Jidai... and in rather prestiguous positions none-the-less.
-Zen Blade
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Zen Blade Asai
Red Devil
Last of the RSG