Hōjō Ujiyasu

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**Hōjō Ujiyasu**  (北条 (ほうじょう)氏康 (うじやす), *****Hōjō Ujiyasu*****? Houjou Ujiyasu) is the current head (Sen7) or successor (Sen2-6) of the Hōjō Clan. She serves as a recruitable general since Sengoku Hime 2, and has appeared in Sengoku Hime 3, Sengoku Hime 4, Sengoku Hime 5, Sengoku Hime 6, Sengoku Hime 7, Tengokuhime 1, Tengokuhime 2, Jangoku Hime and the upcoming Shin § Sengoku Hime.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 2:** The daughter of Hojo Soun. She grows up with Sakumo's strict etiquette and wears a cat in front of Sayamo, but her true personality is a lively and curious girl. She tends to hate men, probably because she was raised by her mother, who demonstrates her skills as a warring lord.

北条早雲の娘。早雲に厳しく礼儀作法をしつけられて育っており、早雲の前では猫を被っているが、本来の性格は、活発で好奇心旺盛な少女。戦国大名として手腕を発揮する母親に育てられた為か、男嫌いの傾向がある。

**Sengoku Hime 3:** The daughter of Hojo Soun, she has become a longing for many soldiers because of her mother-in-law's beauty. She is serious about training, strict with others, and even more strict with her personality and hard worker.

She has an unusual aversion to a man, but she wears a cat well so she doesn't reveal it. She has great respect for her mother, Sakumo, and she can't go against what Sayamo says.

男に対して異常な嫌悪感を持っているが、それを表に出さないようにうまく猫を被っている。母の早雲の事をとても尊敬しており、早雲が言う事には逆らえない。
ＣＶ：中家志穂　デザイナー：譲葉

**Sengoku Hime 4:** The eldest daughter of Hojo Soun. A perfect superhuman who shows her strength in both political and political warfare, and is well-educated, but never fails to be disciplined every day.
While she shows unparalleled abilities as a military commander and shines like no other, she has become a flower of Takamine for her soldiers because of her perfection, and while she is admired, she approaches carelessly. No one will come. Sakumo is secretly thinking about the future of her daughter.
She secretly brags about her sister's hard work, acting as a good sister to her sister.

武将としては比類無い能力を示して余人にはない輝きを放つ一方、その完璧さ故に兵達にとっては高嶺の花となっており、慕われつつも、不用意に近づいて来る者はいない。そんな娘の行く末を、早雲は密かに案じている。
妹に対してはよき姉として範を示そうと振る舞いつつ、妹のがんばりを眺めて密かに自慢に思っている。
【デザイナー：譲葉】　【演者：中家志穂】

**Sengoku Hime 5:** The eldest daughter of Hojo Soun. A perfect superhuman who shows her strength in both political and political warfare, and is well-educated, but never fails to be disciplined every day. While she shows unparalleled abilities as a military commander and shines like no other, she has become a flower of Takamine for her soldiers because of her perfection, and while she is admired, she approaches carelessly. No one will come. Sakumo is secretly thinking about the future of her daughter. She secretly brags about her sister's hard work, acting as a good sister to her sister.

デザイナー：譲葉ＣＶ：中家志穂

**Sengoku Hime 6:** Sagami, the head of the Hojo family. He is serious, but he is worried about bad results first. He often becomes indecisive because he cannot have himself. She becomes an ordinary girl in front of Tsunari who is enthusiastic. She also loves cooking, but she's not selfish and flattering.

**Sengoku Hime 7:** Although he was a coward when he was young, he grew up to be a dignified and reliable owner under the teaching of his father.
His appearance on the battlefield as a Sagami lion has no remnants of what he used to be a coward.

演者:歌織
幼い頃は臆病者だったが、父の教えを受け、威風堂々とした頼もしい当主へと成長した。
相模の獅子として戦場に立つその姿にはかつての臆病者だった頃の面影は全くない。

**Tengoku Hime 1:** The eldest daughter of Hojo Soun. A perfect superhuman who shows her strength in both political and political warfare, and is well-educated, but never fails to be disciplined every day.
While she shows unparalleled abilities as a military commander and shines like no other, she has become a flower of Takamine for her soldiers because of her perfection, and while she is admired, she approaches carelessly. No one will come. Sakumo is secretly thinking about the future of her daughter.
She secretly brags about her sister's hard work, acting as a good sister to her sister.

武将としては比類無い能力を示して余人にはない輝きを放つ一方、その完璧さ故に兵達にとっては高嶺の花となっており、慕われつつも、不用意に近づいて来る者はいない。そんな娘の行く末を、早雲は密かに案じている。
妹に対してはよき姉として範を示そうと振る舞いつつ、妹のがんばりを眺めて密かに自慢に思っている。

**Tengoku Hime 2:** The eldest daughter of Hojo Soun.
A perfect superhuman who shows her strength in both political and political warfare, and is well-educated, but never fails to be disciplined every day.
She shows unparalleled ability as a military commander and shines like no other. There are many soldiers who yearn for Ujiyasu.
Ujiyasu, who lost her mother, Sakumo, overcame her sadness as the Hojo clan, and achieved further growth.
He was summoned to Venard while he was guarding the Hojo clan, though it was a pity that she couldn't show her grown up to her mother.

母親譲りの才覚か、政戦共に力を示し、教養も身につけ、それでも驕ることなく日々鍛錬を欠かさない完璧超人。
武将としては比類無い能力を示して余人にはない輝きを放つ。そんな氏康に憧れる兵も少なくない。
母である早雲を亡くし、北条家当主として、悲しみを乗り越え、更なる成長を遂げた氏康。
成長した姿を母に見せられないのは残念だと思いつつも、北条家を守っていた頃、ヴェナールに召喚された。

**Jan Goku Hime:** The daughter of Hojo Soun.
She grows up with Sakumo's strict etiquette and wears a cat in front of Sayamo, but her true personality is a lively and curious girl.
She tends to hate men, probably because she was raised by her mother, who demonstrates her skills as a warring lord.
Sakumo is worried about Ujiyasu and is looking for a man who can hold Ujiyasu's reins.

早雲に厳しく礼儀作法をしつけられて育っており、早雲の前では猫を被っているが、本来の性格は、活発で好奇心旺盛な少女。
戦国大名として手腕を発揮する母親に育てられた為か、男嫌いの傾向がある。
早雲はそんな氏康を心配しており、氏康の手綱を握ることができる男性を探している。

**Shin § Sengoku Hime:** The head of the Hojo family.
He is young and wise. She is a reliable woman who is kind and trains every day without being overwhelmed by her own talent.
Her only weakness is blood, which is a fatal flaw on the battlefield, so he is a great person in many ways who has been able to fight with his innate seriousness and blindfold.

若くして聡明。心優しく自らの才覚に驕ることなく日々鍛錬を重ねている頼もしい女性。
唯一の弱点が血であり、それは戦場においては致命的な欠点のため、持ち前の真面目さで努力し目隠ししても戦えるようになった色んな意味で凄い人。
原画 | tora
演者:御苑生メイ

## Historial Infomation

Hōjō Ujiyasu (北条 氏康, 1515 – October 21, 1571) was a daimyō (warlord) and third head of the Odawara Hōjō clan. Known as the "Lion of Sagami", he was revered as a fearsome warrior and a cunning man. He is famous for his strategies of breaking the siege from Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin. The son of Hōjō Ujitsuna (北条 氏綱), his only known wife was Imagawa Yoshimoto's sister, Zuikei-in. Among his sons are Hōjō Ujimasa and Uesugi Kagetora.

Born in 1515, his childhood name was Chiyomaru (千代丸). He fought his first battle when he was fifteen years old, facing Uesugi Tomooki of the Ōgigayatsu Uesugi clan (扇谷上杉家) at the Battle of Ozawahara in 1530.
Upon his father's death in 1541, a number of the Hōjō's enemies sought to take advantage of the opportunity to seize major Hōjō strongholds.
Faced with almost endless warfare, Ujiyasu was compelled to reorganize the administration of the Hōjō lands. He had already ordered a series of aggressive cadastral surveys between 1542 and 1543, and in 1550, he overhauled the Kandaka (ja) taxation system.
Odawara, where his home castle Odawara Castle (小田原城) was located, was gradually transformed into an important trading center by modifying the region's throughways (which were hitherto designed with Kamakura as a hub) and creating an artisan's guild within the castle town. In addition, post stations and market places sprung up throughout the Hôjô's lands. Ujiyasu soon became one of the main powers in the Kantō region.
Conflict with Uesugi
In 1545, Uesugi Tomosada, of the Ōgigayatsu Uesugi clan and the eldest legitimate son of Uesugi Tomooki, attempted to regain Kawagoe Castle for the Uesugi clan. Tomosada allied himself with the Koga Kubo Ashikaga Haruuji (足利 晴氏) and Uesugi Norimasa (上杉 憲政) of the Yamauchi Uesugi clan (山内上杉家) and besieged Kawagoe Castle (Siege of Kawagoe Castle). The castle garrison, led by Hōjō Tsunashige (北条 綱成), the stepson of Ujiyasu's brother Tamemasa (北条 為昌) and son-in-law of Ujitsuna, was outnumbered 3,000 to allegedly 80,000 men. Ujiyasu, leading a relief force of 8,000 soldiers, slipped some samurai past the enemy lines to inform Tsunashige of the enemy's approach, and made use of ninja to learn of the enemy's strategy and attitude. Using this intelligence, he led a night attack against the Ashikaga-Uesugi forces, which is now said to be the one of the most notable examples of night fighting in samurai history. "The result was the complete defeat of the Uesugi forces and the Koga contingent. From that date the Go-Hōjō ("Later-Hōjō") as they were called, went on to further triumphs, beginning with the destruction of the Uesugi family." Despite being vastly outnumbered, the Hōjō army defeated the besiegers because, under Ujiyasu's orders, they were not bulked down by heavy armor and were not slowed by seeking to take heads.
This victory marked the decisive turning point in the struggle for the Kanto, and in the following years, proved the end of the Ōgigayatsu Uesugi line and destroyed the prestige of Uesugi Norimasa of the Yamanouchi Uesugi clan as Kantō kanrei (Governor-General of Kantō region, 関東管領). As a result, many of the Kantō warlords became vassals of the Hōjō clan.
In 1551, Ujiyasu defeated Uesugi Norimasa at Hirai Castle (平井城) and forced him to flee to Echigo, where he was taken into the protective custody of his retainer Nagao Kagetora, the later day Uesugi Kenshin and heir to Norimasa by adoption.
In 1559, Ujiyasu retired at the age of 45 and Hōjō Ujimasa inherited formal leadership of the family.
In 1561, Kenshin assumed the post of Kantō kanrei and in the same year tried to conquer the region once more. Kenshin besieged Odawara Castle and burned down the town, withdrawing after two months (Siege of Odawara (1561)).
Hōjō expansion
In 1563, Ujiyasu allied himself with Takeda Shingen and regained Matsuyama Castle (松山城) in Musashi Province against Uesugi Norikatsu (上杉憲勝) (Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama (1563)).
In 1564, he took Kōnodai in Shimōsa Province following a battle against Satomi Yoshihiro (里見 義弘) (Battle of Kōnodai (1564)). Following this victory, Ujiyasu pushed on into Shimosa Province and Kazusa Province, but was never able to destroy the Satomi clan, who remained a thorn in the Hôjô's side right up until 1590.
Ujiyasu expanded the Hōjō territory, which now covered five provinces (Sagami, Izu, Musashi, Shimosa and Kazusa), and managed and maintained what his father and grandfather had held.
Ujiyasu's eastern moves brought the Hōjō into conflict with the Satake clan of Hitachi Province and to the limit of their expansion. After the second battle of Konodai in 1564, the Hōjō largely contented themselves with ruling the vast tracts of land earned through 60 years of war and toil.
Conflict with Takeda
Towards the end of his life Ujiyasu saw the first major conflicts between his own clan and Takeda Shingen (武田 信玄), who would become one of the greatest warlords of the period.
In 1568, as a response to Hōjō's intervention into his invasion of Suruga Province, Shingen came into Musashi Province from his home province of Kai, attacking Hachigata (鉢形城) (Siege of Hachigata (1568)) and Takiyama (滝山城) Castles, where Ujiyasu's sons repulsed them.
In 1569, after failing to take the two castles, Shingen nevertheless pressed on to the Hōjō's home castle of Odawara, burning the castle town and withdrawing after three days (Siege of Odawara (1569)). As the forces of Shingen withdrew from repeated failed sieges of Odawara Castle, two of Ujiyasu's seven sons, the brothers Ujiteru and Ujikuni, attacked him in the pass of Mimase (Battle of Mimasetoge), ending the first of the Takeda campaigns against the Hōjō at Sagami province.
Later in the year, Shingen's son Takeda Katsuyori (武田 勝頼) led a successful siege against the Hojo Kanbara Castle (蒲原城) in Suruga province (Siege of Kanbara).
Takeda Shingen also laid siege to other Hōjō holdings in the surrounding provinces, including Fukazawa castle (深沢城) in Suruga province which was taken in 1571 (Siege of Fukazawa).
Death
Subsequently, Ujiyasu managed to make peace with Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen, the most powerful adversaries of Hōjō Ujiyasu, letting his seventh son Hōjō Saburō be adopted by childless Kenshin and accepting the fait accompli of Shingen's reign over Suruga. To cement the ties of Takeda-Imagawa-Hojo, Ujiyasu also gave his two daughters to those two clans; Lady Hayakawa wed to Imagawa Ujizane, while Lady Hojo (Hojo Masako) wed to Takeda Katsuyori becoming his second wife. Ujiyasu died in 1571, passing on the Hōjō domains to his eldest son Ujimasa (北条 氏政) in a relatively favourable situation.

**Father:**北条氏綱

**Mother:**養珠院宗栄

**Sibling(s):** **氏康**、為昌、氏尭、大頂院殿、浄心院、高源院、芳春院、ちよ、蒔田殿（吉良頼康室）北条(福島)綱成(義弟)

**Spouse(s):**正室：瑞渓院（今川氏親の娘）

**Children:**氏親、氏政、七曲殿、氏照、尾崎殿、氏規、長林院殿、蔵春院殿、氏邦、上杉景虎、浄光院殿、桂林院殿