Date Terumune

Date Terumune
Native name 伊達輝宗
Born 1544
Died November 29, 1585(1585-11-29) (aged 40–41)
Resting place Yonezawa, Yamagata
Nationality Japanese
Other names Hikotaro, Sōjirō
Era Sengoku period
Spouse(s) Yoshi-hime (daughter of Mogami Yoshimori)
Children Date Masamune, Date Masamichi, Date Hideo, Chiko-hime,
Parents
Family Date clan

Date Terumune (伊達 輝宗, 1543 – November 29, 1585) was a Japanese samurai clan leader of the Sengoku period.[1] His childhood name was Hikotaro (彦太郎) later Sojiro (総次郎).

Family

  • Father: Date Harumune
  • Mother: Kubohime (1521-1594)
  • Wife: Yoshihime (1548-1623)
  • Children:
    • Date Hideo
    • Date Masamune by Yoshihime
    • Date Masamichi (1568-1590) by Yoshihime
    • Chikohime by Yoshihime
    • Senshihime by Yoshihime

Daimyo

Terumune succeeded his father Harumune; and he became the sixteenth head of the Date clan of Mutsu Province.[2]

When Oda Nobunaga was assassinated in 1582, Terumune gave his clan's support to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the power struggle which followed.[3]

Terumune was the father of Date Masamune,[1] who succeeded him as clan leader in 1584.[4]

The emblem (mon) of the Date clan

References

  1. 1 2 Turnbull, Stephen. (2012). Samurai Commanders: 1577-1638, Vol, 2, p. 52.
  2. ↑ "Date Terumune" at The Japan Biographical Encyclopedia & Who's Who, Issue 3 (1964), p. 121.
  3. ↑ Meriwether, Colyer. (1898). "Life of Date Masamune," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. XXI (1893), p. 11.
  4. ↑ Meriwether, p. 8.
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