Saji Kazunari (佐治一成, 1569 – November 16, 1634) was a Japanese samurai warrior of the Sengoku period and Edo period.[1][2]
Family edit
- Father: Saji Nobukata
- Mother: Oinu, sister of Oda Nobunaga
- Wives:
- Oeyo (m.1583, div.1592)
- Oushin daughter of Oda Nobunaga
- Children:
- Kitahime
- Nuihime
- Saji Tamenari
Career edit
He was warden of a castle in a province under the control of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Hideyoshi caused Kazunari to marry Oeyo, the sister of a favorite concubine. When Kazunari's support for Tokugawa Ieyasu became known, Hideyoshi took back the woman. She later married Ieyasu's son Tokugawa Hidetada and mothered the shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu.[2]
In popular culture edit
Saji is played by Takehiro Hira in the NHK Taiga drama Gō (2011).[3]
References edit
- ^ Abe, Takeshi (1987). "Saji Kazunari". Sengoku jinmei jiten (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shinjinbutsu Ōraisha. p. 368. ISBN 4404014120.
- ^ a b Turnbull, Stephen R. (2000). The Samurai Tradition, Vol. 2, p. 149; excerpt, "Hideyoshi married Oeyo the younger sister of Yodo-Dono his chief concubine to Saji Kazunari, warden of a castle in a province under his control, but he took her back when her husband assisted Ieyasu, with whom he was then at war."
- ^ 大河ドラマ「江」で最初の夫を演じた平岳大、大野城を訪問. Cinema Today (in Japanese). Retrieved 9 May 2013.