Date Harumune

Portrait of Date Harumune in the Sendai City Museum

Date Harumune (伊達 晴宗, 1519 – January 12, 1578) was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period.[1]

As a special honor, Ashikaga Yoshiharu gave permission for Harumune to use one ideograph (haru-) of his name.[2]

Harumune was the father of the daimyō Date Terumune and the grandfather of the famous Date Masamune.

Family

  • Father: Date Tanemune
  • Mother: Teishin'in
  • Wife: Kubohime (1521–1594)
  • Children:
    • Iwaki Chikataka (d. 1594) by Kubohime
    • Onamihime (1541–1602) married Nikaido Moriyoshi by Kubohime
    • Date Terumune by Kubohime
    • daughter married Date Sanemoto (brother of Harumune) by Kubohime
    • daughter married Koyanagawa Morimune by Kubohime
    • daughter married Satake Yoshishige by Kubohime
    • Rusu Masakage by Kubohime
    • Ishikawa Akimitsu by Kubohime
    • Hikohime married Ashina Morioki later married Ashina Moritaka by Kubohime
    • Kokubu Morishige by Kubohime
    • Sugime Naomune (d. 1584) by Kubohime

Early life

Harumune was the eldest son of Date Tanemune. His childhood name was Jiro (次郎).

Daimyo

Harumune was the 15th head of the Date clan of Mutsu Province.[1]

The Ashikaga shogunate gave Harumune power and responsibilities as tendai of Mutsu.[2]

References

The emblem (mon) of the Date clan
  1. 1 2 "Date Terumune" at The Japan Biographical Encyclopedia & Who's Who, Issue 3 (1964), p. 121.
  2. 1 2 Brinkley, Frank. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 471.



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