Nakagawa Kiyohide
Nakagawa Kiyohide (中川 清秀;
1556 –
June 6,
1583) was a
daimyo in
Azuchi-Momoyama period.His childhood name was
Nakagawa Toranosuke (中川 虎之助). His common name was
Nakagawa Sebe (中川 瀬兵衛).His father was
Nakagawa Shgekiyo.
Nakagawa Hidemasa and
Nakagawa Hidenari were his sons.
Huruta Oribe's wife was Kiyohide's young sister.
At first, Kiyohide served
Ikeda Katsumasa, who was from a powerful clan at
Settsu Province.he went independent with
Araki Murashige and
Takayama Ukon at Settsu Province afterward.When
Oda Nobunaga marched his armies into Kyoto, Kiyohide served him.In
1572, he and Murashige killed
Wada Koremasa.
In
1578, Murashige rebeled against Nobunaga, Kiyohide rebeled acting in concert, too.However, when Nobunaga came to attack leading a large army, Kiyohide surrendered and attacked Murashige other way round.After that, he took part in various battles under
Niwa Nagashige and
Ikeda Tsuneoki.
In
1582, he served
Hashiba Hideyoshi after Nobunaga died, and was active in the
Battle of Yamazaki.
In
1583, he was in the second van of Hideyoshi's force at the
Battle of Shizugatake, and held Oiwayama-fort (Oiwayama-toride, 大岩山砦) with Takayama Ukon and
Miyoshi Hidetsugu.Then
Sakuma Morimasa, who was a brave military commander of
Shibata Katsuie attacked hard, and Kiyohide died in the battle at 42.
His grave is at Bairin-ji (梅林寺),
Ibaraki,
Osaka Prefecture.
His second son, Hidenari became the first leader of
Oka clan at
Bungo Province afterwards.Oka clan continued until
Meiji Period.
