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Chōsokabe clan (Japanese: 長宗我部氏, Hepburn: Chōsokabe-shi), also known as Chōsokame (長宗我部), was a Japanese samurai kin group. Over time, they were known for serving the Hosokawa clan , then the Miyoshi clan and then the Ichijō clan .
Chōsokabe Motochika (長宗我部 元親, 1539 – July 11, 1599) [1] was a prominent daimyō in Japanese Sengoku-period. He was the 21st chief of the Chōsokabe clan of Tosa Province (present-day Kōchi Prefecture), the ruler of Shikoku region.
Members of the Chōsokabe clan, Japanese samurai clan of the Sengoku period, that controlled Tosa Province Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chosokabe clan . Pages in category "Chōsokabe clan"
In 1615, during the Summer Campaign of the Siege of Ōsaka, Akohime accompanied the Chōsokabe army who were allies of the Toyotomi clan in the fight against the Tokugawa clan. Akohime, Chikanao and Chōsokabe Morichika enter Ōsaka Castle, but the Toyotomi lost the battle while Chikanao was killed in action.
Okō Castle (岡豊城, Okō-jō) was a Japanese castle structure located in what is now part of the city of Nankoku Kōchi Prefecture, Japan.It was the original base of power for the Chōsokabe clan who were feudal lords of Tosa Province during the late Muromachi and Sengoku periods and famous as the birthplace of the warlord Chōsokabe Motochika.
At the end of the Sengoku period, the Chōsokabe clan ruled Tosa Province. The Chōsokabe had briefly controlled the entire island of Shikoku under Chōsokabe Motochika from 1583 until he was defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the Invasion of Shikoku in 1585. Motochika fought for Hideyoshi in the Kyushu Campaign and the invasions of Korea.
Chōsokabe Morichika (長宗我部 盛親, 1575 – May 11, 1615) was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period. Once the ruler of Tosa Province , his fief was revoked by Tokugawa Ieyasu after the Battle of Sekigahara .
The Invasion of Shikoku (四国平定, Shikoku heitei) was a conflict of the Sengoku period of Japan fought between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Chōsokabe Motochika on the island of Shikoku in 1585. Hideyoshi invaded Shikoku with a force of over 100,000 men in June and led a campaign against the Chōsokabe clan force of 40,000 men for control over ...