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*[[Azai Sukemasa]] – son of [[Azai Naotane]], established Odani Castle in 1516
*[[Azai Sukemasa]] – son of [[Azai Naotane]], established Odani Castle in 1516
*[[Azai Hisamasa]] – son of Sukemasa, was defeated by the [[Sasaki clan]]
*[[Azai Hisamasa]] – son of Sukemasa, was defeated by the [[Sasaki clan]]
*[[Azai Nagamasa]] – son of Hisamasa, came into conflict with Oda Nobunaga and opposed him, entering an alliance with the Asakura clan and the [[sohei|monks]] of [[Mount Hiei|Mt. Hiei]]; he was defeated and forced to suicide by Nobunaga in 1573. He was married to Nobunaga's sister [[O-ichi]]. His daughters included [[Yodo-Dono]] (second wife of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] and mother of [[Toyotomi Hideyori]]) and [[Oeyo]] (wife of [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] and mother of the third [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogun]] [[Tokugawa Iemitsu|Iemitsu]])<ref name="obama1">[http://www.city.obama.fukui.jp/section/sec_sekaiisan/english/data/290.htm "The silk coloured portrait of wife of Takatsugu Kyogoku,"] Digital Cultural Properties of Wakasa Obama; [http://www.pref.gifu.lg.jp/pref/s11334/mannaka/e/sankai/sengoku/shiga/main.html Oichinokata], Gifu prefecture website.</ref>
*[[Azai Nagamasa]] – son of Hisamasa, came into conflict with Oda Nobunaga and opposed him, entering an alliance with the Asakura clan and the [[sohei|monks]] of [[Mount Hiei|Mt. Hiei]]; he was defeated and forced to suicide by Nobunaga in 1573. He was married to Nobunaga's sister [[O-ichi]]. His daughters included [[Yodo-Dono]] (second wife of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] and mother of [[Toyotomi Hideyori]]) and [[Oeyo]] (wife of [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] and mother of the third [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogun]] [[Tokugawa Iemitsu|Iemitsu]])<ref name="obama1">[http://www.city.obama.fukui.jp/section/sec_sekaiisan/english/data/290.htm "The silk coloured portrait of wife of Takatsugu Kyogoku,"] Digital Cultural Properties of Wakasa Obama; [http://www.pref.gifu.lg.jp/pref/s11334/mannaka/e/sankai/sengoku/shiga/main.html Oichinokata], Gifu prefecture website.</ref>


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Azai clan
浅井氏
The Azai clan mon
Home provinceŌmi
TitlesDaimyo
Final rulerAzai Nagamasa
Dissolution1573
Ruled until1573, Azai Nagamasa commits seppuku

The Azai clan (Japanese: 浅井氏, Hepburn: Azai-shi) was a line of daimyo (feudal lords) during Japan's Sengoku period that was based in Ōmi Province (present day Shiga Prefecture). The Azai clan, along with the Asakura clan, opposed Oda Nobunaga in the late 16th century. They were defeated by him at the Battle of Anegawa in 1570, and all but eliminated when their home castle, Odani Castle, was taken three years later.

Azai of note

References

  1. ^ "The silk coloured portrait of wife of Takatsugu Kyogoku," Archived 2011-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Digital Cultural Properties of Wakasa Obama; Oichinokata[permanent dead link], Gifu prefecture website.

Further reading

  • Turnbull, Stephen. (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co.
  • __________. (2002). War in Japan: 1467–1615. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.