Hongan-ji Kennyo

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* Sen4

**Hongan-ji Kennyo**  (本願寺 (ほんがんじ)顕如 (けんにょ), *****Hongan-ji Kennyo*****? Hongan-ji Kennyo) is the current head of the Hongan-ji. He/she serves as a recruitable general since Sengoku Hime 4, and has appeared in Sengoku Hime 5, Sengoku Hime 6.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 4:**A person like a monk who lives in Honganji.
She hates stagnation and is a girl who seems to be walking forward.
She loves money, but she doesn't want to be extravagant herself, but because she can help everyone with a lot of money. She is a master of philanthropy, soliciting donations from everyone little by little.
My buddy's round bird is often with Kosa, and there are rumors that there is some benefit, and tribute is constant. His name is Phoenix.

停滞が嫌いで前ばかり向いて歩いているような女の子。
お金が大好きだが、自ら贅沢をするためではなく、沢山のお金があればみんなの役に立つことが出来るため。みんなから少しずつ寄付を募って慈善事業に精を出している世直しの達人。
相棒の丸っこい鳥は顕如と一緒にいることが多く、なにやら御利益があるという噂があり、貢ぎ物が絶えない。名前は鳳凰。
【デザイナー：あまぎみちひと】　【演者：平野響子】

**Sengoku Hime 5:**A person like a monk who lives in Honganji. She hates stagnation and is a girl who seems to be walking forward. She loves money, but she doesn't want to be extravagant herself, but because she can help everyone with a lot of money. She is a master of philanthropy, soliciting donations from everyone little by little. My buddy's round bird is often with Kosa, and there are rumors that there is some benefit, and tribute is constant. His name is Phoenix.

デザイナー：あまぎみちひとＣＶ：平野響子

**Sengoku Hime 6:** A vassal of the Honganji family. He is good at grasping the human mind, grasping the situation, and skipping appropriate instructions. He is a tactician and he knows he has great power, but he also knows that he is not all-powerful. Although he acts with pure intention as himself, he has a scent of humor.

## Historial Infomation

Kōsa (光佐, February 20, 1543 – December 27, 1592), also known as Hongan-ji Kennyo (本願寺 顕如), was the 11th head of the Hongan-ji in Kyoto, and Chief Abbot of Ishiyama Hongan-ji, cathedral fortress of the Ikkō-ikki (Buddhist warrior priests and peasants who opposed samurai rule), during its siege at the end of the Sengoku period. He engineered many alliances, and organized the defenses of the cathedral to the point that most at the time considered Ishiyama Hongan-ji to be unbreachable.

Oda Nobunaga's Siege of Ishiyama Hongan-ji began in 1570, and would be the longest siege in Japanese history. In accordance with Kōsa's strategic organization of the defenses and alliances, the fortress was all but impervious to attack, and the Mōri clan fleet defended the supply lines for some time. Kōsa (and the Mōri) requested aid from both Takeda Katsuyori (son of Shingen) and Uesugi Kenshin, as well as the Ikkō armies of other provinces, to attack Nobunaga, relieving the siege. But neither Takeda nor Uesugi answered his call. When Nobunaga attacked the fortress with 3,000 troops, the priests answered with 15,000; Nobunaga then turned to attacking Kōsa's allies, the Asakura, Uesugi, and Azai clans as well as other outposts of Ikkō-ikki priests. The Abbot wrote a desperate letter to Ikko followers in Musashi and Sagami Provinces, asking them to stand fast, and to send supplies and reinforcements. The fortress' supplies were nearly exhausted, and their outposts were nearly all destroyed by 1580. Nobunaga ordered the Abbot to evacuate the fortress, and to leave Osaka. Kōsa deliberated with his allies, particularly the Mōri, and then left for Kii Province, hoping to raise reinforcements. He left his son in charge of the fortress, who surrendered after an Imperial Messenger arrived with an official request from the Emperor that he do so. The fortress mysteriously burned down after the priests left it.
Despite this incredible defeat, Kōsa remained devoted to the Ikko sect, and to the idea of regaining a central cathedral fortress for the sect. He began to enlist the help of Ikko sectarians to aid Toyotomi Hideyoshi, in order to gain Hideyoshi's favor. In 1583, Kōsa sent Ikko warriors to harass Hideyoshi's enemy Shibata Katsuie, and in 1587 he sent messengers to Kyushu, asking Ikko leaders there to act as guides for Hideyoshi's army in Satsuma Province. In 1589, Hideyoshi granted Kōsa his wish for a new Hongan-ji. The site was the shrine to the patriarch Shinran, in Kyoto; it was moved in 1591, and is now known as the Nishi Hongan-ji.