Date Terumune

Date Terumune (伊達 輝宗, 1544 – November 29, 1585) was a Japanese samurai clan leader of the Sengoku period.[1] His childhood name was Hikotaro (彦太郎) later Sojiro (総次郎).

In this Japanese name, the family name is Date.

Date Terumune
伊達輝宗
Born	1544
Died	November 29, 1585(1585-11-29) (aged 40–41)
Resting place	Yonezawa, Yamagata
Nationality	Japanese
Other names	Hikotaro, Sōjirō
Era	Sengoku period
Spouse(s)	Yoshi-hime (daughter of Mogami Yoshimori)
Children	Date Masamune, Date Masamichi, Date Hideo, Chiko-hime,
Parents	Date Harumune (father) Kubo-hime (mother)
Family	Date clan

Family

• Father: Date Harumune
• Mother: Kubohime (1521-1594)
• Wife: Yoshihime (1548-1623)
• Sister: Onamihime
• Children:
  • Date Hideo
  • Date Masamune by Yoshihime
  • Date Masamichi (1568-1590) by Yoshihime
  • Chikohime by Yoshihime
  • Senshihime by Yoshihime

Daimyo

Terumune succeeded his father Harumune; and he became the sixteenth head of the Date clan of Mutsu Province.[2]

When Oda Nobunaga was assassinated in 1582, Terumune gave his clan's support to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the power struggle which followed.[3]

Terumune was the father of Date Masamune,[1][4] who succeeded him as clan leader in 1584.[5]

The emblem (mon) of the Date clan

In fiction

In NHK's 1987 Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune, Terumune was played by Kin'ya Kitaōji.[6]

References

1. Turnbull, Stephen. (2012). Samurai Commanders: 1577-1638, Vol, 2, p. 52.
2. "Date Terumune" at The Japan Biographical Encyclopedia & Who's Who, Issue 3 (1964), p. 121.
3. Meriwether, Colyer. (1898). "Life of Date Masamune," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. XXI (1893), p. 11.
4. Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co. p. 236. ISBN 9781854095237.
5. Meriwether, p. 8.
6. "大河ドラマ　独眼竜政宗" (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved 25 July 2019.