
Itami
Château d'Arioka
Seigneur, bâtisseur d'Arioka (1574-1579)
→Lord of Arioka Castle (Itami) · Lord of Ibaraki Castle (1573)
Araki Murashige (1535-1586), a warrior of Settsu Province who moved from service under the Ikeda to that of Oda Nobunaga, is inseparable from Arioka Castle in Itami. After seizing it in 1574, he turned it into a vast fortress with an urban enclosure (sogamae) of about two kilometres, punctuated by advanced forts. His revolt against Nobunaga in 1578 led to a siege of about a year; Kuroda Kanbei, who had come to negotiate, was imprisoned there. Murashige left the stronghold before its fall in 1579, and his family and vassals were severely punished. He later survived as a tea master under the name Dōkun, counted among the disciples of Sen no Rikyū, and died in 1586.
On taking over the Itami castle, Murashige enlarged it to the point of enclosing the town within an enceinte of about two kilometres, defended by several forts, including the northern one near the Inono shrine and that of Hiyodorizuka. Excavations carried out by the city of Itami from 1975 to 1978 distinguished six construction phases and uncovered moats, stone walls and buildings.
Château d'AriokaBirth.
Joins Oda Nobunaga, who entrusts him with Ibaraki Castle.
Takes Itami Castle from Itami Chikaoki, substantially remodels it and renames it Arioka.
Rebels against Nobunaga; Kuroda Kanbei, sent as a negotiator, is imprisoned at Arioka.
Fall of Arioka after about a year of siege; Murashige had withdrawn beforehand; many members of his family and vassals are executed.
Defeated at Hanakuma Castle by Ikeda Tsuneoki, he flees to the Mōri.
Death; he had become a tea master under the name Dōkun, a disciple of Sen no Rikyū.
Suspected of sympathy for the Mōri during the siege of Miki, Murashige entrenched himself at Arioka in 1578. The stronghold held out for about a year. After its fall, Nobunaga had members of the Araki family and the families of his vassals executed; the Shinchō Kōki gives a figure of 670 victims.
Surviving the collapse, Murashige became a tea master under the name Dōkun and appears, in a genealogy of tea masters, among the eminent disciples of Sen no Rikyū.
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