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Date Terumune
伊達輝宗
Born1544
DiedNovember 29, 1585(1585-11-29) (aged 40–41)
Resting placeYonezawa, Yamagata
NationalityJapanese
Other namesHikotaro, Sōjirō
EraSengoku period
SpouseYoshi-hime (daughter of Mogami Yoshimori)
ChildrenDate Masamune, Date Masamichi, Date Hideo, Chiko-hime,
Parents
FamilyDate clan

Date Terumune (伊達 輝宗, 1544 – 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)
  • Sister: Onamihime
  • 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][4] who succeeded him as clan leader in 1584.[5]

The emblem (mon) of the Date clan

In fiction

In NHK's 1987 Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune, Terumune was played by Kin'ya Kitaōji.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co. p. 236. ISBN 9781854095237.
  5. ^ Meriwether, p. 8.
  6. ^ "大河ドラマ 独眼竜政宗" (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 July 2019.