was a samurai commander in
Azuchi-Momoyama period and
Edo period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
.
His father was
Kutsuki Harutsuna (朽木 晴綱).
The Kutsuki were a powerful clan at Kutsuki-tani (朽木谷), Takasima-gori,
Ōmi Province
was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō Circuit (subnational entity), circuit. Its nickname is . Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, ...
. His childhood name was Takewakamaru (竹若丸.
At the age of two, Mototsuna succeeded when his father died in battle. At first, he served an
Ashikaga shogunate at the
Hokosyu. In 1570, Mototsuna helped
Oda Nobunaga
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. He was the and regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. He is sometimes referred as the "Demon Daimyō" and "Demo ...
when he attacked
Asakura clan
The is a Japanese samurai kin group.Edmond Papinot, Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Asakura", ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 3 DF 7 of 80/nowiki> retrieved 2013-5-4. ...
and retired through Kutsuki. He then served
Hashiba Hideyoshi after Nobunga died in 1582.
In 1600 at the
Battle of Sekigahara
The Battle of Sekigahara (Shinjitai: ; Kyūjitai: , Hepburn romanization: ''Sekigahara no Tatakai'') was an important battle in Japan which occurred on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month) in what is now Gifu Prefecture, ...
, at the start Mototsuna took part in
Ishida Mitsunari
was a Japanese samurai and military commander of the late Sengoku period of Japan. He is probably best remembered as the commander of the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara following the Azuchi–Momoyama period of the 16th century. He ...
's force belonging to
Otani Yoshitsugu. However, acting in concert with
Kobayakawa Hideaki
(1577 – December 1, 1602) was the fifth son of Kinoshita Iesada and a nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was gained the rank of ''Saemon no Kami'' (左衛門督) or in China ''Shikkingo'' (執金吾) at genpuku and held the court title of ...
, Mototsuna, along with
Wakisaka Yasuharu
(1554 – September 26, 1626), sometimes referred to as Wakizaka Yasuharu, was a ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of Awaji Island who fought under a number of warlords over the course of Japan's Sengoku period.
Biography
Wakisaka originally serv ...
,
Ogawa Suketada and
Akaza Naoyasu
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Azuchi–Momoyama period, who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was also known as and , and held the title of .
Biography
His father, , was a retainer of Oda Nobunaga. Naonori was killed in action when Akechi Mit ...
, betrayed Mitsunari. After the battle, Ieyasu let Yasuharu govern his domain because of this exploit.
Family
* Father:
Kutsuki Harutsuna
* Mother: Asukai Masatsuna's daughter
* Wife: Gyōe's daughter
* Children:
** Kutsuki Nobutsuna (1582-1662)
** Kutsuki Tomotsuna (1599-1662)
** Kutsuki Tanetsuna (1605-1660)
** daughter married Hori Naomasa
References
1549 births
1632 deaths
Samurai
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