INDEX

[In order to maintain manageable proportions, most persons and places mentioned less than twice in the text of this book have been omitted from the index. Because ubiquity makes fingerposts superfluous, there is no entry for a person whose name is mentioned more than two thousand times: .]

Abe Niemon, 303–6, 343, 408 vis-à-vis Araki Murashige, 296; Aga temple precincts, 367 attacks Araki’s strongholds, 297–99; Ajiki Village, 22, 96, 97 ordered to Harima, 306; besieges Akamatsu Hirohide, 242, 259 stronghold of Hatano family in Akasaka, 139, 168, 171 Tanba, starves it into submission, Akashi, 285, 289 and slaughters its garrison, 307, 321; Akaza Shichirōemon, 128, 322, 450, 471, sends presents to Nobunaga, 310–11; 473 reports on Tanba campaign, eliciting Akaza Sukeroku, alias Kuwabara laudatory letter from Nobunaga, Sukeroku, 128, 441–42, 473 323; reports conquest of Tango and Akazuka, 3, 64–66 Tanba provinces, 11, 332; performs Akechi Castle, 7, 205, 451 intermediary role with Araki side, Akechi Jūbyōe Mitsuhide, alias Koretō 341, 345; performs intermediary role Hyūga no Kami: on guard in Shogun with Chōsogabe Motochika of Tosa, Yoshiaki’s residence, 128; sent 371; cited by Nobunaga as exemplary by Nobunaga to Wakasa, 143; in warrior, 376; ordered by Nobunaga envelopment of Mount Hiei, 156; to organize cavalcade on horseback given Shiga District, 166; stationed in , 385; takes part in cavalcade, in western Ōmi, 168; ordered to 387; sent to Tottori, 408–9; ordered build fortified ships, 172; collects to prepare for campaign in Shinano, ground rents, 182; attacks Yoshiaki’s 430; in Shinano invasion force, 444; fortifications in Ōmi, 6, 183–84; ordered to entertain Tokugawa in assault on Makinoshima, 189; Ieyasu, 463–64; holds poetry session besieges Yamamoto Sanehisa’s fort, at Atago, 466–67; rebels, 14–15, 19, 190; given Kido and Tanaka castles by 21, 468–76; destroyed by Tentō, 47 Nobunaga, 191; presents Sanehisa’s Akita Jō no Suke. See Oda Nobutada head to Nobunaga, 201; name Akutagawa, 122–24, 297, 299 changed from Akechi to Koretō, 231; Amagasaki, 149, 253, 303, 339; Araki in reconquest of Echizen, 8, 235–36; Murashige conducts amphibious poised to invade Kaga, 237; ordered operation from, 250; Araki escapes to, to head for action in Tango, 238; 11, 325; Oda Nobutada advances on, active on Ozaka front, 8, 249–50; 326–27; chief men of Itami garrison in Saika campaign, 264–65, 267; in leave for, 333–34; not surrendered by campaign against Matsunaga, 271–72; Araki, 11, 341; summary of story of, entertained at tea party by Nobunaga, 343–45 278; sent to Ozaka front, 282; sent Amida Buddha, 210, 270, 316–17, 334, on campaign in Tanba, 9, 283; urges 346–47, 373–74 forbearance in Harima, 284; sets Anayama Baisetsu Nobukimi, Genba no out for reconnaissance in force in Kami: betrays Takeda, 13, 433; guides Harima, 284; at siege of Kanki, 287; in Takeda territory, acts as Nobunaga’s intermediary 436; rewarded by Nobunaga, 444–45, 480 index

447; travels with Ieyasu to Azuchi and Kōzuki, 9, 284, 287; at siege of Kanki, metropolitan provinces, 463–65; killed 287, 290; rebels against Nobunaga, by insurgents, 476 siding with Ozaka Honganji, 10, Andō Morinari, Iga no Kami; alias 296; betrayed by Takayama Ukon Iga Iga no Kami: delegated by Saitō and Nakagawa Sehyōe, 10, 299–300; Dōsan to guard Nagoya Castle in betrayed by Abe Niemon, 303–5; Nobunaga’s absence, 71–72, 74; escapes from Itami to Amagasaki, defects to Nobunaga, 114; admires 11, 325, 333; exchanges poems with Nobunaga’s tactics, 120; at siege ladies, 334–35; execution of kith, kin, of Okawachi, 135; in envelopment and dependents of, 11–12, 341–42, of Mount Hiei, 156; fights against 347–49; depicted lyrically in “story of Matsunaga, 170; fights against Azai, how this whole affair came to pass,” 171; in Makinoshima assault force, 21, 342–49 187; in pursuit of Asakura Yoshikage, Araki Shigekata, alias Kinoshita 193, 196; in Delta campaign, 212–13; Heidayū, 370, 417 in reconquest of Echizen, 235; at relief Arako, 72, 77, 212 of Tennōji, 251; in futile invasion Arashika, 282, 293, 368 of Kaga, 269; in assault on Kanki Arioka Castle. See Itami Castle Castle, 287; in campaign against Asakura Akimimaru, 198 Araki Murashige, 297; dismissed from Asakura Kageakira, Shikibu no Daibu; Nobunaga’s service, 381, 473 alias Tsuchihashi Nobuakira, 197–98 Andō Sadaharu, alias Iga Heizaemon, Asakura Kagetsune, Nakazukasa no 162, 306, 313 Daibu, 142 Anegawa, 147, 161, 162; Battle of, 5, Asakura Magosaburō Kagetake, 147, 236 147–48, 236 Asakura Yoshikage, Sakyō no Daibu: Anenokōji Chūnagon. See Mitsugi fails to assist , Yoshiyori and Mitsugi Yoritsuna 115, 117; refuses Nobunaga’s Anjō Castle, 53–54 invitation to Kyoto, providing Aoji Chiyoju Motoyoshi, 189, 252, 384, Nobunaga with casus belli, 140; 410, 412, 424 relieved of Nobunaga’s threat by Aoji Shigetsuna, Suruga no Kami, 135, Azai Nagamasa’s intervention, 5, 143; 153 sends Nobunaga pledge to abide by Aoji Yoemon, 139, 292, 311, 328, 388 conditions of peace negotiated by Aoki Genba no Jō, 410, 412 Shogun Yoshiaki, 159; arrives with Aoyama Tora Tadamoto, 279, 362 army at Otani Castle to reinforce Aoyama Yosōemon no Jō, 53, 54, 55, 60 Azai, 6, 173; pursued by Nobunaga Araki Jinen, 341, 348–49 into Echizen, 192–94; flight and death Araki Kyūzaemon, 333, 341, 348–49 of, 7, 196–98; head put on exhibition Araki Motokiyo, Shima no Kami, 302, in Kyoto, 198; skull of, 204 348 Asami Tsushima, 192 Araki Murashige, Shinano no Kami and shogunal (also titled Settsu no Kami): fights offices, 3, 4, 7, 17, 19, 35–36, 44, 51, for Shogun Yoshiaki against Miyoshi 115, 117, 125, 182, 388, 403 Triumvirs, 129; abandons Yoshiaki, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, shogun: resides in defecting to Nobunaga, 184; in Nara priory Ichijōin as Buddhist Makinoshima assault force, 189; acts priest Kakkei, 4, 117; quits Nara and as Nobunaga’s official at sampling renounces priesthood, seeking to of Ranjatai, 206; in reconquest of become shogun, 117; disappointed by Echizen, 235; ordered to Harima, 238; Sasaki Jōtei and Asakura Yoshikage, ordered to attack Ozaka, 8, 249–50; turns to Nobunaga for assistance, refuses to attack Ikkō confederates 117–18; installed as shogun in Kyoto at Tennōji, 251; in Saika campaign, by Nobunaga, 4, 19, 115, 118–26; 264, 267; entertained at tea party by attacked by Miyoshi Triumvirs, Nobunaga, 278; fails to break siege of 4, 128; put under restrictions by