Azai Nagamasa

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**Azai Nagamasa**  (浅井 (あざい)長政 (ながまさ), *****Azai Nagamasa*****? Azai Nagamasa) is the current head of the Azai Clan. She serves as a recruitable general since Sengoku Hime 1, and has appeared in Sengoku Hime 2, Sengoku Hime 3, Sengoku Hime 6, Sengoku Hime 7 and the upcoming Shin § Sengoku Hime.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 1:** The head of the Azai family.
A brave general who is a straightforward person and has good martial arts from a distance. However, he has a bad part about love affairs, and he can't even talk to a girl satisfactorily.
He is constantly searching for how to live as a person born in the world.

実直な人物で距からの信厚く武略に優れる勇将。しかし、恋愛事に関してはてんでダメな部分があり、満足に女の子と話すこともできない。
の世に当主として生まれた身として、どのように生きるべきかを日々、模索している。
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**Sengoku Hime 2:** The head of the Azai family. A brave general who is a straightforward person, has a great deal of trust from his vassals, and is excellent in martial arts.
Together with his three chief retainers, Kaiho Tsunachika, Akao Kiyotsuna, and Yabei Amemori, he grew the Azai clan as a warring lord of Kita Omi and built the heyday of the Azai clan.

浅井家の当主。実直な人物で家臣からの信頼も厚く武略に優れる勇将。
三人の重臣「海北綱親」「赤尾清綱」「雨森弥兵衛」とともに、浅井家を北近江の戦国大名として成長させ、浅井家の全盛期を築いた。

**Sengoku Hime 3:** As "Monkey Yasha Maru" shows, she is a small, lively and free-spirited girl who is as quick as a monkey. She always wears a demon mask, and when fighting, she wears it and shows her activity like a demon.

However, she is usually an innocent girl of all ages, so her gap surprises those around her.

しかし、普段は年相応の無邪気な女の子なので、そのギャップがまわりの者を驚かせる。
ＣＶ：雪村とあ　デザイナー：譲葉

**Sengoku Hime 6:** Kita Omi, the head of the Azai family. He's not particularly good at anything, but he's loved by everyone because he's a sincere and trustworthy person. However, perhaps because he feels responsible for causing trouble to his parents from an early age, he does not reveal his feelings. He has the one-sided aspect that he absolutely protects his loved ones.

**Sengoku Hime 7:** The head of the Azai family.
He is a calm and very calm person.
He looks like thirty, but in fact, he is still a teenage troubled young man.
He is complicated by the fact that he cannot be seen for his age.

浅井家の当主。
物腰穏やかでとても落ち着いた人物。
三十路ほどに見えるがその実、まだ十代の悩み多き青年。
歳相応に見られないことを複雑に思っている。

**Shin § Sengoku Hime:** The head of the Azai family. She is a rational girl with glasses.
She looks like she's inaccessible at first glance, but she's a straightforward and straightforward person.
She just didn't realize she couldn't make a joke because of her seriousness and she was really teased.

一見近寄りがたそうに見えるが、実直で素直な人物。
ただ真面目が故に冗談が通じず真に受けてからかわれていることにも気づかないほど。

## Historial Infomation

Azai Nagamasa (浅井 長政, 1545 – 26 September 1573) was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period known as the brother-in-law and enemy of Oda Nobunaga. Nagamasa was head of the Azai clan seated at Odani Castle in northern Ōmi Province and married Nobunaga's sister Oichi in 1564, fathering her three daughters – Yodo-dono, Ohatsu, and Oeyo – who became prominent figures in their own right.

Nagamasa became one of Nobunaga's enemies in 1570 due to the Azai alliance with the Asakura clan, and fought against Nobunaga at major battles including the Battle of Anegawa. Nagamasa and his clan were destroyed by Nobunaga in August 1573, and he committed seppuku during the siege of Odani Castle.

Azai Nagamasa was the son of Azai Hisamasa, from whom he inherited clan leadership in 1560. Hisamasa had been compelled to step down by many of his retainers in favor of his son, Nagamasa. Hisamasa retired, and would later commit suicide along with his son in August 1573. Nagamasa successfully battled both Rokkaku Yoshikata and Saitō Tatsuoki between 1560 and 1564. He is remembered as being a capable commander of troops on the battlefield.
He married Oda Nobunaga's sister Oichi in 1564. Nobunaga desired peaceful relations with the Azai clan because of their strategic position in between Oda clan land's and the capital, Kyoto.
Conflict with Oda Nobunaga
In 1570, Oda Nobunaga declared war on the Asakura family of Echizen and besieged Kanegasaki castle. The Asakura and Azai had been allies since the time of Nagamasa's grandfather. This sudden war between two Azai clan allies is reported to have divided the clan. Many retainers wished to honor the alliance with the Asakura, while Nagamasa himself is reported to have favoured staying neutral, essentially siding with Nobunaga. In the end, the Azai clan chose to honor the generations-old alliance with the Asakura and came to their aid. Initially, this decision caused Nobunaga's army, which was marching upon the Asakura's lands, to retreat back to Kyoto. However, within a few months the forces of Nobunaga were again on the march, but this time they marched on Azai lands.
Battle of Anegawa
Main article: Battle of Anegawa
In the summer of 1570, Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu brought an army estimated between 20,000-30,000 men into Northern Omi. The Azai called upon their allies, the Asakura, for assistance. The Asakura responded by sending troops. In either June or July, the two sides met at the battle of Anegawa. The combined Azai and Asakura force numbered between 15,000-20,000 men. The outcome is recorded elsewhere, but briefly: The battle was strongly contested by both sides. Nobunaga is recorded as having decided that his force should directly confront the numerically inferior Azai clan force, while Ieyasu would engage the Asakura. While the Oda were being held at bay, and perhaps even slowly losing ground to the Azai - who had fought against numerically superior forces in the past - Ieyasu's force was apparently quickly gaining the advantage against the Asakura. Ieyasu, or perhaps one of his battle commanders, decided to send part of the Tokugawa force into the Azai flank, forcing the Azai to retreat, and guaranteeing victory. However, the battle was strategically indecisive because the Oda shortly withdrew.
Death
Over the course of the next two years, with the exception of occasional interventions by the Shogun, Azai Nagamasa was under constant threat of Nobunaga aggression into Omi. Often these threats manifested into sieges of the Azai capital of Odani. During this period the Azai are seen as being loosely aligned with numerous anti-Oda forces, including the Asakura, the Miyoshi, the Rokkaku, and several religious complexes.
In 1573, Nobunaga laid siege to Odani Castle. Although the Asakura sent a relief force, Nobunaga defeated this force and chased the Asakura into their lands. Shortly thereafter, the Asakura were destroyed. Nobunaga then returned south to prosecute the siege of Odani Castle.
Nagamasa had no hope of winning, and chose to commit seppuku. Before dying, he entrusted his wife Oichi and their three daughters to Nobunaga.
Nobunaga later convinced Oichi to tell him where she had sent her infant son and Nagamasa's male heir, Manpukumaru, saying that he wanted the boy to live with and raise him. However, Nobunaga had Hideyoshi execute Manpukumaru, and the head was displayed on a stake. Nobunaga ensured that his sister, Oichi, was uninformed of this but she eventually came to that suspicion. There are reports that Nobunaga bore a strong grudge against Nagamasa for his perceived betrayal of their alliance even though it was he who broke the agreement first. It has also been reported that Nobunaga had the skulls of Nagamasa, Hisamasa, and the Asakura leader lacquered so that they could be used as cups, but whether this is historically accurate or merely fabricated to heighten Nobunaga's reputation is debatable.

**Father:** 浅井久政

**Mother:** 小野殿

**Sibling(s):** **長政**、政元、政之、岡崎安休、浅井治政、阿久姫、大弐局、京極マリア

**Spouse(s):**正室：平井定武の娘
継室：お市の方
側室：八重の方

**Children:** 万福丸、万寿丸、茶々、初、江

**Adopted Children:**井頼？