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京都 東寺
「うちらの高校は東寺の五重の塔のてっぺんと同じ高さのところにあるんや」洛北高校出の友人がそう言っていた東寺。その昔朱雀大路に建つ羅生門を挟んで東に東寺、西に西寺があったが、繰り返される戦乱などで焼失し東寺だけが再建され現代に残った。徳川家光の時代に再建された高さ約55メートルの五重の塔は全国一で国宝に指定されている。
1568年9月、将軍足利義昭を奉じて上洛した信長は東寺に入る。国家鎮護の東寺に陣を構えて自らの意思を示し、ここから天下統一の一歩を踏み出した。明治の頃まで東寺の南側は広々とした畑で、まして信長の時代は洛外の荒野だっただろう。浅井長政と合わせ6万と伝えられる軍勢を留めるためにも、逃亡した三好勢を追討するためにも都合がよかったに違いない。上洛した信長は将軍はもとより天皇にも兵を預けなかった。それに引き換え維新後に二流の人材が創った明治政府は自分たち(議会)ではなく、天皇に軍を委ねる(皇軍)というとんでもない誤ちを犯した。これがずっと後に統帥権干犯問題を惹起し、軍の暴走を許すことになる。
Kyoto
Touji (Eastern Temple)
“Our
school is standing at the level as high as the top of five stories Pagoda in
Touji” said one of my friends who graduated from Rakuhoku High School. Long time
ago, there were two temples “Touji” and “Saiji” each side of “Rashoumon” standing
on the street called “Suzaku-Oji”, but both temples were burnt by repeated wars again and again. We can see now only Touji which was rebuilt later. The five
stories Pagoda is the highest one in Japan at 55 meters high reconstructed at
the ages of Shogunn Tokugawa Iemitsu, and designated National Treasures.
In September of 1568, Oda Nobunaga came in Kyoto accompanying Shogun Ashikaga
Yoshiaki. In the meantime He stayed his troops at the nation protection temple Touji,
which was the expression of his ambition, and took a step to unify the whole
country. There were widely spread farms in the south of
Touji until Meiji era. Still more at the ages of Nobunaga, there might be extensive
wild fields. That was very convenient for him so as to establish his military
camp of presumably 60 thousand soldiers altogether with Asai Nagamasa, and to
chase the troops of Miyoshi escaped from Kyoto. While entering Kyoto Nobunaga
didn’t entrust his troops to Shogun nor Tenno. On the contrary, the government
of Meiji composed by a mediocre person made so miserable mistake that they
consigned their troops to Tenno but not their congress. This caused later a problem
of the interference and violation of the Supreme Command, and then made it
possible the army to go out of control.
