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  Hosokawa Katsumoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is famous for his involvement in the creation of Ryōan-ji, a temple famous for its rock garden, and for his involvement in the Ōnin War, which sparked the 130-year Sengoku period.
Hosokawa had always worked closely with the Shogun's brother Ashikaga Yoshimi, and supported his claim to the shogunate.
Hosokawa made the first obvious attack within the capital, attacking the mansion of a Yamana general by the name of Isshiki.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hosokawa clan
The Hosokawa clan (細川氏, -shi) was a Japanese samurai clan, which claimed descendance from the Seiwa Genji and ironically played key roles in both the establishment of the Ashikaga shogunate and its destruction.
A conflict between Hosokawa Katsumoto, the fifth Kanrei, and his father-in-law Yamana Sōzen, over the shogunate's succession, sparked the Ōnin War, which led to the fall of the shogunate and a period of 150 years of chaos and war, known as Sengoku.
Katsumoto's son, Hosokawa Masamoto, held power in this way at the end of the 15th century, but was assassinated in 1507.
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 Honda-Hosokawa Gracie
Masamoto was a son of Hosokawa Katsumoto and was appointed kanrei in 1486.
Sumimoto was a son of Hosokawa Yoshiharu and an adopted son of Hosokawa Masamoto.
Fujitaka was the son of Mibuchi Harusada and was adopted by Hosokawa Mototsune.
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 Wikinfo | Onin War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A dispute between Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Souzen escalated into the nationwide war involving the Ashikaga shogunate and daimyos.
At the same time though, the Yamana and Hosokawa clans had spent years as rivals, interfering in the affairs of other families and clans with varying degrees of success.
Hosokawa Katsumoto on the other hand, threw his clan behind Yoshimi, the current shogun’s brother.
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 The Age of the Samurai - Onin War 1467-1477
At the end of May the Hosokawa attacked the mansion of a Yamana general and it was not long before it went up in flames along with the entire block that surrounded it.
The Hosokawa used trebuchets to bombard the entrenched Yamana positions with exploding bombs and rocks.
Katsumoto managed to convince the shogun to declare his bitter enemy, Sozen, a rebel but the Red Monk controlled all the exits from the ancient capital and the stalemate continued for months.
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 Onin War
In 1507, the Kanrei Hosokawa Matsumoto was assassinated and in 1508, Yoshizumi left Kyoto and the Ouchi restored the shogunate to Yoshitane.
After the death of Hosokawa Matsumoto, his adopted sons Takakuni and Sumimoto began to fight over the succession to the Kanrei, but Sumimoto himself was a puppet of one of his vassals.
Hosokawa tried to foment civil strife in the Ouchi domains, for instance, and this civil strife would eventually force Ouchi to submit and leave.
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 Hosokawa Tadaoki ( Sansai )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tadoaki was the son of Nagaoka Fujitaka (Hosokawa Fujitaka, Yusai), (1534-1610), the son of shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu (1511-1550) the 12th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate by a concubine and the adopted son of Hosokawa Mototsune.
Because the Hosokawa had sided with the Toyotomi in the matter Hideyoshi recommended reconciliation to Tama and that Tadaoki bring her back into his family from exile while the rest of the Akechi clan was systematically eliminated.
She was at the Hosokawa residence at Osaka castle when Ishida Mitsunari attempted to take her captive to be used as a political weapon to influence the Hosakawa's decision of who to side with in the upcoming conflict.
www.artsales.com /ARTistory/Hosokawa/Hosokawa_Tadaoki_(Sansai).htm   (2466 words)

  
 : Japan
The war was stareted by the two daimyo Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Souzen, however, the war lasted even both of the two died.
In Hizen and Harima district was the conflict between the house Yamana and the house Akamatsu for legitimate posession of the territory.
And the posession of Iyo district was in dispute betweeen the house Hosokawa and the house Kono.
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 Hosokawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hosokawa Ujitsuna (1514 – 1564) was a military commander at the end of the Muromachi period
Hosokawa Katsumoto (1430-1473), one of the Kanrei during Japan's Muromachi Period
Hosokawa Tadaoki (1563-1645), lord of Tango province, son of Hosokawa Fujitaka
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 Amazon.com: "Hosokawa Katsumoto": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Yamana Sozen Mochitoyo (1404-73) and Hosokawa Katsumoto (1430-73) The commanders of the rival sides in the Orrin War must be treated as a pair.
Hosokawa Katsumoto, who had other things on his mind in this period of civil war, retracted the confiscation of the estate.
The temple of Ryanji was founded in 1450 by Hosokawa Katsumoto, a warrior and prime minister.
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 1336-1568. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
zen, 1404–73) and his son-in-law, Hosokawa Katsumoto (1430?–73), long the shogunal deputy of the bakufu (1453–64, 1468–73).
Kyoto was soon laid waste, but both leaders died in 1473, and exhaustion eventually brought peace in 1477.
Hosokawa Masamoto (1466–1507) drove the shogun Yoshitane (r.
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The Onin wars however were not yet over, and along with almost the entire city of Kyoto, the original buildings were burnt to the ground as the city became a battlefield.
Beside the image there is are Ihai (grave tablets) for the Hosokawa family and to Giten (the first Abbot), as well as prayer tablets for the Emperor.
On the northeast side of the Hojo to the rear of the Kuri is a famous tearoom named Zorokuan, which is unfortunately closed to the public to protect it from damage by heavy tourist traffic.
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 Dojo Himura - Basic History
At the same time, the Yamana and Hosokawa clans had spent years as rivals, interfering in the affairs of others with varying degrees of success.
With another 20,000 Yamana men marching on Kyoto, a Hosokawa mansion mysteriously burnt to the ground.
Yamana Sozen and Hosokawa Katsumoto both died in 1473, and the war dragged on.
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 Kyoto Temples: Ryoanji
Considering the attention Ryoanji now attracts, it is surprising that until the middle of the twentieth century, it was virtually forgotten.
Ryoanji was built in 1450 by Hosokawa Katsumoto (1430 - 1473), one of the powerful warlords of the time, in the grounds of an older estate he had obtained.
The temple was destroyed in the Onin Wars (1467 - 1477) - a vicious civil war during which also the temple's founder met his death -, but rebuilt in 1499; it flourished, thanks to the patronage of the Hosokawa family, as well as Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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 Ancient Japan - 5
Yoshimitsu, assisted by the successive shogunal deputies (kanrei) Hosokawa Yoriyuki and Shiba Yoshimasa, gradually overcame the power of the great military governors (shugo) who had been so important in the founding of the new regime.
The official business of the Mandokoro was to control the finances of the bakufu; and later the Ise family, who were hereditary retainers of the Ashikaga, came to inherit this office.
Profits from the China trade were important to the bakufu, but control of this trade later came into the hands of the western shugo families of the Hosokawa and Ouchi, under whose protection trading merchants became active in the ports of Hakata, Hyogo, and Sakai.
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 Japanese History: Muromachi
The shogun was forced to declare the Hosokawa the loyal army, but the warring continued.
The sovereignty of the Muromachi shogunate was disabled and all daimyo became involved in the wars which spread throughout Japan.
An armistice was finally agreed between the houses of Hosokawa and their main opposition the Yamana, but not all battles ceased, many daimyo continued fighting for power, territory and the claim to shogun.
www.kaido.plus.com /History/murom3.html   (466 words)

  
 Japan to 1615 by Sanderson Beck
When the Hosokawa shugo (military governor) demanded back the shoen taken by the kokujin during the Onin War in Settsu province, these warriors resisted in 1479 and appealed to the rebel Hatakeyama Yoshinari; but Hosokawa raised a large army and crushed the uprising in 1482 by destroying their home bases of Suita and Ibaragi.
Kanrei Hosokawa Katsumoto appointed Yoshizumi and in 1494 was replaced by his son Hosokawa Masamoto.
The Hosokawa family used the shoguns as puppets until their last Kanrei, Hosokawa Harumoto, was defeated in 1558 by their former vassals, Miyoshi and Matsunaga; but Miyoshi was eventually ousted by his retainer Matsunaga.
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 Amazon.com: "Hosokawa Masamoto": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He does insistently associate Hosokawa Masamoto with "the Kyoto party" and his own sympathies, hence converting the rebel Motoichi into an enemy of the capital itself.
The rebuilding of the temple was undertaken in 1488 by Hosokawa Masamoto, the son of Katsumoto.
When Tomotada was about twenty years old, he was sent upon a private mission to Hosokawa Masamoto, the great daimyo of Kyoto, a kinsman of Hatakyama Yoshimun.
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 Japanese Architecture: Ryoanji temple, Kyoto
Most traces of his original work have vanished except for the large pond that covers much of the lower garden.
Destroyed in the Onin war that devastated much of Kyoto, reconstruction began in earnest with Hosokawa Katsumoto, a powerful member of the Buke clan of Kyoto, who founded Ryoanji proper in the upper half of the grounds.
Following a fire in 1488, his son Hosokawa Masamoto financed the construction of the present garden.
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 China History Forum, chinese history forum > Chronology of the Shoguns
He, with the assistance of Hosokawa Yoriyuki and Shiba Yoshimasa (successive Kanrei), overruled the growing power of the Shugo (destroying the Yamana family in 1391 and attacking Ouchi Yoshihiro), and successfully united the Northern and Southern Imperial Courts (Nambokuchu) in 1392.
In 1467 the Onin War erupted (fought largely (and indecisively) in Kyoto) between the Eastern and Western armies led by Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Sozen, with the Emperor and Shogun ineffectually supporting Hosokawa.
He was replaced by Yoshizumi after a conflict with Hosokawa Masamoto (whose family would dominate Bakufu affairs until 1558), but was reinstalled by Ouchi Yoshioki to serve his second-term as Shogun, but fled to Awaji Island after a dispute with Hosokawa Takakuni.
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 Samurai_Battles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ashikaga Takauji advanced by ship along the coast of the Inland Sea, while his brother Ashikaga Tadayoshi advanced by land.
They were joined by a large seaborne reinforcement from Shikoku led by the Hosokawa, who tried to land but were driven off and forced to land further along the coast.
When the battle started, Nitta Yoshisada was attacked and was forced back, leaving Masashige isolated.
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 The Hindu : Magazine / Lifestyle : A Kyoto sojourn
Its famous rock garden, in its bed of white gravel, has been featured in all important books on Japanese gardens and culture.
This Zen temple was established in 1450 by Hosokawa Katsumoto.
Visitors fall into a natural silence, and sitting on the floor of the verandah facing the garden, the eye travelled over the 15 large and small rocks, in their sea of white, their spareness inducing in one of the abstract nature of philosophy.
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 PROLOGUE: Recall the Two Zen Masters
He also named Hosokawa Katsumoto to be his brother’s counselor.
Within a year, Shogun Yoshimasa had a son, reneged on his word to his brother, and called in Katsumoto’s father-in-law, Yamana Sozen (the "Red Monk") to stand up for his newborn son.
Ironically, the most famous of the rock gardens Ryoan-ji (the Dragon Temple) -- before it became a temple -- was the home of Hosokawa Katsumoto -- one of the two generals of the Onin War.
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 NIZAEMON VIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Kataoka Nizaemon VIII interprétant le rôle de Hosokawa Katsumoto dans la pièce « Date Kurabe Okuni Kabuki » jouée au théâtre Nakamuraza à Edo en avril 1861
playing the role of Hosokawa Katsumoto in the play "Date Kurabe Okuni Kabuki" which was performed in Edo at the Nakamuraza Theater in April 1861 (print made by Utagawa Toyokuni the 3
This print is the left component of a triptych (the central and right prints are available as well)
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 Gaming World // Articles - Culture of Japan — The Feudal Era
With the brothers Yoshimasa and Yoshimi at each other’s throats, they soon found allies… the Hosokawa Clan and the Yamana Clan, who had been rivals for years, naturally decided to take opposing sides in this new conflict.
The Yamana Clan, lead by Yamana Sozen who was known for his horrible temper, decided to support the existing Shogun and his infant heir.
Hosokawa Matsumoto decided to place his clan’s support behind the current Shogun’s brother.
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 Kabuki Summaries V
They are slowly heading for the castle of Lord Hosokawa Katsumoto [1430-1473] with a secret letter.
They escort Toyowaka-maru, the late lord's new-born son, in hopes that with the help of Lord Hosokawa he will be installed at the head of his father's domain after they retrieve the scroll.
The rumble of thunder is heard, so Myorin promptly picks up an old sickle as a charm against it and makes off with the palanquin, leaving Yoemon alone in his despair.
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 Ryoanji, Ryoan-ji - Kyoto, Japan
The temple was founded in 1450 by Hosokawa Katsumoto (1430-73), a military leader in the Muromachi period.
The original temple buildings burned down during the Onin Wars (1467-77), in which Katsumoto was killed.
The temple was reconstructed from 1488 to 1499, and Ryoanji's famous rock garden was probably constructed around this time.
www.sacred-destinations.com /japan/kyoto-ryoanji.htm   (855 words)

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