Title Ikeda Terumasa (January 31, 1565–March 16, 1613)

  • Gifu
Topic(s):
Historic Sites/Castle Ruins
Medium/Media of Use:
Interpretive Sign
Text Length:
≤250 Words
FY Prepared:
2018
Associated Tourism Board:
bijittoGIFUkyogikai
Associated Address:
18 Gifu-shi , Gifu

池田輝政は1584年から1591年まで岐阜城を任された。信長の家臣として、信長の多くの重要な戦闘に参加した。信長の死後、池田輝政の一族は豊臣秀吉(1537ー1598)に仕えた。 1584年の小牧長久手の戦いで、父の池田恒興(1536ー1584)と兄の池田元助(1559ー1584)の両者が戦死したあと輝政は岐阜城を含む美濃の大部分を受け継いだ。

1590年、現在の愛知県吉田城に移り、1594年に徳川家康の娘徳姫(1565-1615)と結婚した。 1598年に秀吉が亡くなったとき、輝政の忠誠心は彼の新しい義父に向けられれた。 1600年、池田輝政と福島正則は織田信秀(1580-1605)が入っていた岐阜城に共同攻撃を仕掛けた。岐阜城はわずか一日で落城した。

戦国時代の終焉を告げた現在の岐阜県の関ヶ原の戦いの間、輝政は南宮山山頂の基地を守った。西軍の代表毛利氏が平野に布陣する東軍を挟むのを防ぐための布陣であった。輝政の貢献は、戦略的に重要な姫路城(兵庫県)を家康から与えられた。1613年に亡くなる頃には、彼の力と影響力は非常に大きくなり、池田輝政は西国の将軍と呼ばれた。


Ikeda Terumasa ruled Gifu castle from 1584 to 1591. As Nobunaga’s retainer, Terumasa took part in many of Nobunaga’s major campaigns. After Nobunaga’s death, Ikeda Terumasu’s family served Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537–1598). When both his father Ikeda Tsuneoki (1536–1584) and elder brother Ikeda Motosuke (1559–1584) were killed during the Battle of Komaki-Nagakute in 1584, Terumasa inherited a large part of Mino (modern-day Gifu), including Gifu Castle.

Terumasa was moved Yoshida Castle in present-day Aichi prefecture in 1590, and in 1594 married Tokugawa Ieyasu’s daughter Tokuhime (1565–1615). When Hideyoshi died in 1598, Terumasa’s loyalties turned to his new father-in-law. In 1600, Ikeda Terumasa and Fukushima Masanori launched a joint attack on Gifu Castle, then held by Oda Hidenobu (1580–1605). The castle fell in a single day.

During the Battle of Sekigahara, which marked the end of this period of war, Terumasa guarded the base of Mt. Nangu to prevent the Western-supporting Mori clan from sandwiching the Eastern forces on the plains. For his services, Terumasa was awarded the strategically important Himeji Castle, which was greatly expanded under his control. By the time of his death in 1613, his power and influence had grown so much that Ikeda Terumasa was nicknamed Saigoku no Shogun, or “The Shogun of the West.”


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