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Murashige Araki was born in 1535.
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Murashige Araki
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He served Katsumasa Ikeda, Military Commissioner of Kyoto, before surrendering to Warlord Nobunaga Оda when he captured the capital in his westward expedition to the Kinki District. On behalf of Nobunaga, Murashige took castles in Settsu Province and put under control the Buddhist revolt of the Ikko (Shinshu) Sect. He, however, fell out with Nobunaga in 1578 and revolted in his castle in Itami.He retreated to Itami and held out there against a one-year siege by the forces of Oda before the castle fell in 1579; Araki escaped, and lived out the rest of his life as a chanoyu disciple of Sen no Rikyū.
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His son, raised under his mother's name, was the artist Iwasa Matabei.
