Date Terumune

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In this Japanese name, the surname is Date.
Date Terumune
伊達輝宗
Date Terumune.JPG
Head of Date clan
In office
?–1585
Preceded byDate Harumune
Succeeded byDate Masamune
Personal details
Born1544
DiedNovember 29, 1585(1585-11-29) (aged 40–41)
Resting placeYonezawa, Yamagata
NationalityJapanese
Spouse(s)Yoshihime
ChildrenDate Masamune
Date Masamichi
Date Hideo
Chiko-hime
MotherKubohime
FatherDate Harumune
RelativesOnamihime (sister)
Mogami Yoshiaki (brother-in-law)
Military service
AllegianceTake ni Suzume.svg Date 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 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. ^ Jump up to: 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.
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