Ishikawa Akimitsu Explained

Ishikawa Akimitsu
石川 昭光
Birth Date:1550
Death Date:August 16, 1622
Birth Name:Kojiro
Allegiance:15px Date clan
Unit:Mutsu-Ishikawa clan
Relations:Date Harumune (father)
Ishikawa Harumitsu (adopted father)
Battles:Korean campaign (1592-1598)
Osaka Campaign (1614-1615)

,[1] also known as Kojiro or Jirō (次郎) or by his court title, Yamato no Kami (大和守),[2] was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through early Edo period. He served the Date clan of Sendai han during the tenure of its lord Masamune.

Akimitsu was born in 1550 as Kojiro, the fourth son of Date Harumune. His siblings included Rusu Masakage and Date Terumune, Masamune's father.

In 1563, Ishikawa Harumitsu, the twenty-fifth head of the Mutsu-Ishikawa clan, adopted Kojiro (later, he was renamed Ishikawa Akimitsu). Harumitsu handed over the head of the Mutsu-Ishikawa family to Akimitsu and retired.

After the destruction of the Ashina clan in Tenshō 17 (1589), he came under Masamune's command. In Masamune's service, Akimitsu was acknowledged as chief among the heads of the Date clan's cadet branches, or ichimon-hittō (一門衆筆頭). He served in the Korean campaign, as well as the Osaka campaign.

In 1598, Akimitsu was entrusted with Kakuda Castle, which came with a stipend of 10,000 koku.[3]

References

  1. Web site: Sengoku Biographical Dictionary. 2017-09-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20171031230139/http://www.samurai-archives.com/dictionary/i.html. 2017-10-31. live.
  2. Web site: 政宗を支えた人々. www2u.biglobe.ne.jp . https://archive.today/20000510204237/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~kamomax/kashin3.htm . 2000-05-10.
  3. Web site: 角田城跡 . 2007-03-23 . dead . https://archive.today/20000523192037/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~kamomax/kakuda.htm . 2000-05-23 .