Bujantai

This name uses Jurchen naming customs. The family name is Ula Nara.

Bujantai (Manchu: ; Chinese: 布ぬの占うらない泰やすし) (1575 – 1618) was a Jurchen beile (chieftain) of the Ula tribal confederation.

Bujuntai 布ぬの占うらない泰やすし
Beile of the Ula Nara
Reign	1596 - 1613
Predecessor	Mantai
Successor	Title extinct
Born	1575
Died	1618 (age 44)
Burial	Yehe State
Spouse	Aisin-Gioro Eshitai Aisin Gioro E'enzhe Princess Mukushen
Issue	Dalamu Mordaja Lady Ulanara others
House	Ula Nara
Father	Bugan (布ぬの干ひ)

Life

Bujantai was descended from Nacibulu (納おさめ奇き卜ぼく祿ろく), the ancestor of the Nara lineages of Ula and Hada. Tradition spoke of Nacibulu as having attracted the attention of some Mongols who desired to make him subservient to them. When the Mongols attempted to capture him, however, he successfully subdued them, and when they shouted to inquire his name he responded with a defiant challenge, "Nara". In this manner the important Nara clan is supposed to have received its name. Nacibulu settled near modern Jilin on the Sungari river, which was often called simply the Ula, or "the river". There he became a successful hunter and trapper who attracted many followers. Several generations later, two brothers among his descendants, Kesina (克かつ什納) and Gudui Juyan (古こ對たい珠たま延のべ), became the ancestors of the Hada and Ula branches of the Nara clan. Buyan (布ぬの延のべ), grandson of Gudui juyan, fortified the settlement on the Sungari and named himself beile of the Ula tribe. Two of his grandsons were Mantai (滿まん泰やすし) and Bujantai, both of whom would succeed to the position of beile of the Ula.

The Yehe tribe under the beile Bujai (布ぬの齋とき,布ぬの戒) and Narimbulu assembled the various groups in the Hūlun alliance, along with some Khorchin Mongols, to oppose the rising power of Nurhaci. Bujantai led the Ula contingent, but was taken prisoner by Nurhaci when the confederation was defeated at Mt. Gure in October 1593. Nurhaci refrained from killing Bujantai and after holding him for three years as a retainer sent him back under escort to the Ula. The Ula beile Mantai, and his son having recently been executed by their tribesmen, Bujantai was released by Nurhaci, established as beile in his brother's place and as tributary to the lord of the Jianzhou, Nurhaci. In order to cement ties with Nurhaci, he sent a sister as wife to Nurhaci's brother, Šurhaci, and in 1597 joined the Yehe and other tribes in a formal truce with Nurhaci. Two years Bujantai would receive a daughter of Šurhaci as a wife, and in 1601 he arranged the marriage of his niece, the future Empress Xiao Lie Wu to Nurhaci. Two years later after unsuccessful attempts to secure a daughter of the Mongol, Minggan 明あかり安やす, chief of the Borjigit tribe, he requested another wife from Nurhaci and was given a second daughter of Šurhaci.

Even though these matrimonial ties existed between the Ula and Nurhaci, a war broke out in 1607 between Nurhaci and the Ula in which the latter were defeated with the loss of some towns. Bujantai then promised Nurhaci that if he was given another wife then a truce would be called for. Nurhaci then sent one of his own daughters to him and this would secured a peace between the two for four years. In 1612 Bujantai tried to bribe the Yehe beile, Bujai, into giving him for a wife a daughter who had been promised to Nurhaci. He also subjected Nurhaci's daughter whom he had married to indignity by "shooting whistling arrows at her". Enraged by these acts, Nurhaci took personal command of an expedition which completely defeated the Ula tribe in 1613. Bujantai fled to the Yehe under the beile Gintaisi who gave him refuge. He died before the Yehe tribe also fell into Nurhaci's hands.

Family

• Father: Bugan (布ぬの干ひ)

Consorts and issues:

• Wife, of the Aisin Gioro clan (愛あい新しん覺さとし羅ら氏し; 30 September 1584 – April/May 1656), personal name Eshitai (額がく實じつ泰やすし), daughter of Surhaci
• Wife, of the Aisin Gioro clan (愛あい新しん覺さとし羅ら氏し; 1584 – December 1638/January 1639), personal name E'enzhe (額がく恩おん哲あきら), daughter of Surhaci
• Wife, of the Aisin Gioro clan (愛あい新しん覺さとし羅ら氏し; 1595 – June/July 1659), personal name Mukushen (穆きよし庫こ什), daughter of Nurhaci
  • Mordaja (茂しげる墨ぼく尔)
  • Gaduhun (噶都浑)
  • Hongkuang (洪ひろし匡ただし)
• Unknown:
  • Dalamu (達いたる拉ひしげ穆きよし), first son
  • Seven sons
  • Lady Ulanara (葉は赫那拉ひしげ氏し)
    • married Dudu, Prince Anping of the Third Rank of the Aisin Gioro clan (安平あびら貝かい勒 杜もり度ど), the first son of Cuyen and had issue (6 sons and 1 daughter)
  • Lady Ulanara (葉は赫那拉ひしげ氏し)
    • married Šoto, Prince of the Third Rank (貝かい勒 碩せき託たく), son of Daišan (貝かい勒 碩せき託たく; d. 1643)
  • Ulanara Jihai (乌拉那な拉ひしげ氏し·济海; d. 30 September 1643)
    • married Sahaliyan, Prince Yingyi of the First Rank (穎毅親王しんのう 薩哈璘) of the Aisin Gioro clan, son of Daišan

References

• Kennedy, George A. (1943). "Bujantai" . In Hummel, Arthur W. Sr. (ed.). Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
• Crossley, Pamela Kyle (2002). The Manchus. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-23591-0