Rokkaku Yoshisuke Explained

(died 1612) or Yoshiharu, 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 Ch%C5%8Dk%C5%8D-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.

References

• Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867. Münster: Tagenbuch.
• 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.
• 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. ; reprinted by Cassell & Co., London, 2000.

Notes and References

1. [Edmund Papinot|Papinot, Edmund]
2. Katsumata Shizuo et al. (1981). "The Development of Sengoku Law" in Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650, p. 102.
3. Book: Turnbull. Stephen. The Samurai Sourcebook. 2000. Cassell & C0. London. 1854095234. 74,220.
4. [George Bailey Sansom|Sansom, George Bailey]