#Shimazu Yoshihisa

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Yoshihiro is cute(unlike his brother???).

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Shimazu Tadatsune, Daimyo of Satsuma was born on this day,

November 27, 1576

One of the most affluent and powerful lords of the early Edo Period With a stipend of 605,000 koku, Shimazu Tadatsune was born in 1576, Tadatsune was named heir to the Shimazu (Also written as Shimadzu) clan just prior to the Battle of Sekigahara, where his father had fought on the losing side. His uncle, Yoshihisa, was first in line to succeed the head of the Shimazu clan, but at the time was heirless. His other uncle, Hisakazu had fallen ill and had died in Korea, and so Tadatsune was named successor. He took control in 1602, however, his father held the bulk of power until his death in 1619.

The Shimazu clan were respected for their prowess on the battlefield, and Tadatsune was also known for his bravery. During Hideyoshi’s Korean Campaign, he and his father headed an 8,000 samurai army, and drove off a Chinese Ming army of 100,000 soldiers.

In 1602, two years after the Battle of Sekigahara, Tadatsune formally submitted to Tokugawa Ieyasu as a sign of loyalty, and in doing so was awarded the name of Matsudaira Iehisa. This was seen as a great honor, as Matsudaira was Ieyasu’s original family name, and the Matsudaira were a branch of the Tokugawa clan. Tadatsune also accepted the first part of Ieyasu’s name in receiving Iehisa as a given name, an even greater honor.

Tadatsune worked hard to secure the Shimazu clan’s future. As head of the clan, Tadatsune also weeded out corruption and disloyalty among his retainers.

He had annexed the Ryukyu (Okinawan) Islands in mid 1609, but allowed them to remain semi independent so as to be able to trade with China, who believed the islands were still in their control. This kept the Shimazu clan economically strong, and important for Japans’ trade.

Tadatsune died April 7, 1638, aged 62

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Motonari’s sons in Tenka/Koiran

The one on the left is Kikkawa Motoharu, the one on the right Kobayakawa Takakage

I’m curious if Motonari himself is actually still around or not LOL. Motoharu’s adoptive father is still alive, even though IRL he died in 1550 so...? Motonari lasted much longer than that LMAO. Maybe they will talk about it in the event, IDK.

Also the Shimazus, Yoshihisa and Yoshihiro:

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The Shimazu: Always Looking For a Fight

Okay but they really were, especially between each other

The Shimazu clan are known in history for one very good reason – fighting. They were known for it in Hideyoshi’s time and they would be known for it at the end of the Edo period, when they played a major role in the Boshin War.

The Shimazu clan traces its lineage all the way back to the Kamakura period and ultimately the Minamoto, as many clans do. It seems to be either the Minamoto or Taira, which is with good reason – these were the two clans fighting it out until the Minamoto won and decided to fight between themselves. Koremune Tadahisa, a theory goes that he was the illegitimate child of Minamoto no Yoritomo but this has been largely abandoned. He took the name of his wife, or was more likely adopted into the clan and married her as this was quite common, who was a Koremune by birth and was at granted the province of Satsuma and took the name of the domain – Shimazu.

The clan’s lands of Hyuuga and Osumi were lost for a short time during wars with the Hiki clan (who I thought had been destroyed by the Minamoto already but okay) but were regained under the leadership of the 9th Head, Shimazu Motohisa. However, the clan had already splinter upon the death of the Shimazu Sadahisa, his third son taking over the Soshu branch and his fourth taking over the Oshu branch (not to be confused with Date Masamune’s domain)

The two sections of the clan were prone to infighting and taking different sides in wars. In the Northern-Southern conflict (excuse me for being vague about this, this is literally the first I’ve heard of it) they fought on the same side for the Northern Court. They fought against Imagawa Ryoshun, a reknowned poet and military commander, only to fight with him and be betrayed by him at the Mizushima incident. Both Branches would oppose him until he was dismissed from his post in 1395.

The clan fell to in fighting in the 1400s and the cadet branch – the Oshu – would become the main branch when Shimazu Hisamori. Not to say things really got better from there. While Kyoto was being scorched by the forces of Hosokawa and Yamana, Shimazu Tatsuhisa was on his deathbed. When he did die in 1474, two factions headed by Shimazu Kunihisa and Shimazu Suehisa erupted into all-out war a decade later. Twinned with the conflicts between the (future) retainer families and the rebellion of Kimotsuki Kanehisa in 1506, the only option given to the leader, Shimazu Tadamasa, was suicide which he carried out in 1507.

It’s in 1550 that we see some familiar faces. Appearing now is Shimazu Takahisa, along with his two sons – Yoshihisa and Yoshihiro. We know Yoshihiro as the grumpy old man with the impossibly large hammer in Samurai Warriors. He was young once, right now he is only fifteen years old. The family set out on the path of conquest and while everyone’s eyes was on the monster that was Oda Nobunaga the Shimazu were brutally bashing their way through Kyushu, claiming their old domain back over a period of 37 years. Yoshihiro is no longer 15, he is in his fifties and the Toyotomi are coming.

Toyotomi’s victory actually did something rather interesting to the Shimazu. They had always been traditional, holding Kamakura style banquets and conforming with traditions that matched those of the 1100s rather those of the subsequent centuries. Hideyoshi’s victory forced them to do otherwise, serving him a modern style banquet. Along with Hideyoshi’s victory came a change in clan headship – Takahisa had died in 1571 and the headship passed to Yoshihisa. Upon their defeat, Yoshihisa relinquished control to little brother Yoshihiro – now 52 years old.

It was the Shimazu who would fight the final battle of the Korean campaigns in 1598. They would also be the forces that killed the great Admiral Yi Sun-sin. It was their guns that killed the Admiral, along with other commanders in both the Korean and Chinese armies. They had a large part to play in Korea, simply due to their proximity to it in comparison to other Daimyo.

The Shimazu were involved in the Sekigahara campaign on the Western side but, like most of Ishida’s allies, they didn’t really do anything to help him. Due to their remoteness, they were allowed to keep their domain, making them one of the few clans who held their lands all the way from the Kamakura period.

There is a cool depiction of them at Sekigahara, however.  They became trapped towards the end of the battle and – showing the true spirit of what the Shimazu are famous for – supposedly charged through 10,000 troops with only a 2,250 men and many would make it out alive. With the exception of Shimazu Toyohisa.

Shimazu Toyohisa was 30 years old at Sekigahara and though far from the hyperactive teen we know him as, he was still rather young. He was the son of Iehisa, a brother of Yoshihisa and Yoshihiro and married to a daughter of another Shimazu clan member.  

The head of the clan at the time of the Boshin war was Shimazu Hisamitsu who was in charge, although power was supposed to be with his son (adopted son of his brother who suddenly died in 1858), when the Boshin war began. While returning to Satsuma, having just assisted in instating Tokugawa Yoshinobu as guardian to the Shogun, the Numamugi incident occurred. A British trader, Charles Richardson, refused to move out of the way of Hisamitsu’s procession (of like 1000 Samurai, buddy, I’d move if I were you) and so, Richardson was killed.

Over the course of the revolution Hisamitsu toyed with the idea of setting up a new Government based in and run by Satsuma (along with other clans) but eventually abandoned this in favour of the reinstating of the Imperial family as head, along with the reformed Government that would come with this. Under the Kozuko system he would become a Prince – the highest rank.

The Shimazu are still a prominent family today and are related to the Imperial clan – Hisamitsu is a Great-Great Grandfather of the current Emperor through his Grandmother, who was Hisamitsu’s Granddaughter. I think I made that more confusing than it was. Additionally, one of his descendants is also the Great Grandson of Saigo Takamori, the last samurai. The actual one, not that film with Tom Cruise in. Ew.

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Kanami, Sill, Shelia, Lia, Maria, Magic, Rizna, etc.

Rance is doing much better than you guys

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Fantasy Cursed Objects Picture Book Deluxe [part 3 of 8] . File 03 : Inverted Spear of Heaven (Amanosakahoko)

Data

Length: about 40 cm Weight: unknown Location discovered: the last place sighted was Tokyo Grade: Special-grade Danger level: ★★★☆☆

The broken blade is a daring splinter!

If the thing sighted in the recent years is the real "Amanosakahoko", then the current owner is borrowing but not returning it. On top of that, part of the blade has also gone missing.... Use the item that you borrow with care!!

An excellent design that considers the user's convenience

This is the point where you can attach a chain, a very convenient metal fitting with a lot of use!

Eyewitness is wanted!

If the thing on top of the mountain is a replica, where is the location of the real "Amanosakahoko" currently?! In the recent years, there's a witness that reported a mysterious man was holding it around Tokyo. However the spear is said to have disappeared like it was swallowed by transparent space...

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Snow peak of Mount Takachiho in M prefecture. However, due to repeated eruption, the tip of Amanosakahoko spear which stands atop the mountain is broken. It is said that at this time the tip part of the spear is a replica. According to one theory, the broken tip of the spear was recovered by Shimazu Yoshihisa of Satsuma. Yoshihisa expanded his power by using the divine power of the spear, before he donated it as a votive offering to a nearby shrine, however the current whereabouts of the spear is unknown. Later, in 200s, there was a rumor somewhere in Tokyo about a jobless man with unknown address swinging the spear around targeting two high school students. No one is sure about the true relationship between them. By the way, in the year of 1866, in a letter addressed to his sister, Sakamoto Ryouma told her he visited Mount Takachiho together with Oryou, it was reported that he pulled out Amanosakahoko. Since then, there was a rumor circulating among Ryoma enthusiasts that chanting "Sakahoko Ryouma!" when you visit Mount Takachiho will invite good luck, but today the rumor has subsided.

T/N:

Amanosakahoko is actually the name of a legendary spear from Japanese myth that involved in the birth of Japan land. Amanosakahoko in real life stands on top of Mount Takachiho.

Shimazu Yoshihisa and Sakamoto Ryoma are legendary figures in Japanese history. Oryo is Ryoma's wife and often depicted as a dragon in legend (thanks FGO).

T/N2:

This is the first time I read that Inverted Spear of Heaven has a broken part that went missing. I wonder is the missing broken blade will later appear. Like, to be used to free certain someone from his box

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Hideyoshi’s death - Sekigahara - chronology

This has been in my drafts for a long time and it’s a bit incomplete towards the end, but... I’m not sure if I’ll be able to answer any additional questions, these are facts (plus some rumours from secondary sources), it’s up to you to interpret them as you like.

1598

18. 8. Toyotomi Hideyoshi died | (Ishida Mitsunari informed Ieyasu that Hideyoshi died) | Tokugawa Hidetada returned to Edo

(Hideyoshi is still considered alive

some form of tension between Ieyasu and go-bugyō was apparent)

25. 8. go-bugyō issued a letter about peace with Korea

28. 8. an order to withdraw from Korea was issued by go-tairō (without Uesugi Kagekatsu’s signature) informing that Mōri Hidemoto, Asano Nagamasa and Ishida Mitsunari were being sent to Hakata to deal with it | Mōri Terumoto made an oath with Mashita Nagamori, Ishida Mitsunari, Maeda Gen’i and Natsuka Masaie about cooperation

(Ukita Hideie was often visiting Terumoto’s mansion making friends with him)

3. 9. go-tairō and go-bugyō exchanged an oath that was forbidding them from making groups of supporters from outside the ten of them and that they will protect Hideyori

5. 9. another letter about peace with Korea is issued by 4-tairō

(Ieyasu, Terumoto and Hideie were supposed to go to Hakata, but that didn’t happened)

end of the ninth month - Ishida Mitsunari, Asano Nagamasa, Mōri Hidemoto were sent to Hakata to withdraw forces from Korea.

tenth month - Uesugi Kagekatsu arrived to Fushimi from Aizu

25. 11. Ieyasu invited Mashita Nagamori to his mansion in Fushimi

26. 11. Ieyasu invited Chōsokabe Morichika to his mansion in Fushimi

3. 12. Ieyasu invited Shinjō Naoyori to his mansion in Fushimi

6. 12. Ieyasu invited Shimazu Yoshihisa to his mansion in Fushimi

7. 12. Ieyasu invited Hosokawa Tadaoki to his mansion in Fushimi

(Katō Kiyomasa, Kuroda Nagamasa returned from Korea; sometime during the 12th month, before Shimazu and Konishi; 23. 11. they departed from Korea)

10. 12. Shimazu’s forces (Yoshihiro, Tadatsune) entered Hakata

11. 12. Konishi Yukinaga and Terazawa Hirotaka (Masanari)’s forces entered Hakata

(friction between Mitsunari, Yukinaga etc. and Kiyomasa, Asanos, Kurodas)

24. 12. Mitsunari returned to Osaka together with Shimazu Tadatsune

(everyone who returned from Korea went to Osaka)

1599

10. 1. Toyotomi Hideyori moved from Fushimi castle to Osaka castle. accompanied by go-tairō and go-bugyō (it was probably a nice show). Toshiie, following Hideyoshi’s will, stayed in Osaka as Hideyori’s guardian from then on.

(Kagekatsu returned back to Fushimi)

12. 1. Ieyasu returned back to Fushimi. 

(a tentative decision to return Kobayakawa Hideaki his old fiefs was made)

(Ieyasu’s marriage arrangements with Date Masamune, Fukushima Masanori, Hachisuka Ieamasa became a problem)

18. 1. go-bugyō wrote to Date Masamune that use of guns was limited in Osaka

19. 1. 4-tairō and go-bugyō sent messengers to Ieyasu that he was going against Hideyoshi’s will

(some tension appeared, some daimyō gathered at Ieyasu’s mansion)

20. 1. all was settled without an armed conflict | several generals gathered at Mōri Terumoto’s mansion in Fushimi for discussion

24. 1. 4-tairō condemned Ieyasu for going against Hideyoshi’s will

28. 1. Ieyasu went to Osaka

29. 1. Ieyasu’s vassal Sakakibara Yasumasa entered Fushimi with an army | Ieyasu was back in Fushimi

2. 2. accompanying the official announcement of Hideyoshi’s death, the go-bugyō shaved their heads

5. 2. Hideaki’s fiefs were officially returned by go-tairō

12. 2. Ieyasu exchanged an oath with 4-tairō and go-bugyō (at least on the outside it looked like Ieyasu was the one making compromise) concerning the marriage problem

(Shimazu Yoshihisa returned from Fushimi to Kyushu; 14. 3. arrived to Satsuma)

29. 2. Toshiie visited Ieyasu in Fushimi

(reconciliation between Ieyasu and Maeda Toshinaga and Ieyasu and Ukita Hideie were made before 8. 3.)

9. 3. Shimazu Tadatsune killed Ijūin Tadamune

11. 3. Ieyasu visited sick Toshiie in Osaka

3. 3. (leap year) Maeda Toshiie died

4. 3. (leap year) Ishida Mitsunari was attacked in Osaka by Katō Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Kuroda Nagamasa, Tōdō Takatora, Hosokawa Tadaoki, Asano Yukinaga and Hachisuka Iemasa and escaped to his own wing in Fushimi castle.

5. 3. (leap year) Ieyasu wrote a letter to Katō Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Kuroda Nagamasa, Tōdō Takatora, Hosokawa Tadaoki, Asano Yukinaga and Hachisuka Iemasa

8. 3. (leap year) Kita no Mandokoro (Nene) tried to mediate (either on this day or earlier)

(Mōri Terumoto and Uesugi Kagekatsu were in Fushimi at this time. Ukita Hideie was probably in Osaka being sad his father-in-law died; he could assist Mitsunari in escaping though; Satake Yoshinobu could accompany Mitsunari from Osaka to Fushimi.

Go-bugyō were also in Fushimi (maybe except for Asano, who knows). 7 generals were asking for Mitsunari’s retirement. There were also voices for Mashita Nagamori’s retirement.

Osaka was full of people loyal to Ieyasu, so anti-Ieyasu forces wouldn’t be able to enter or exit.

Mitsunari sent Konishi Yukinaga and Terazawa Hirotaka (Masanari) to Mōri Terumoto as messangers.

Mitsunari would like to attack the enemy side with Terumoto’s help, but Ōtani Yoshitsugu didn’t think it would be a good idea,

Terumoto and Uesugi Kagekatsu tried to mediate. Kagekatsu and Ieyasu talked about marriage between their two clans, but it didn’t went through)

9. 3. (leap year) Ieyasu made his final decision and the disturbance more or less ended.

(Mitsunari’s son Hayato no kami (probably Shigeie) started to serve Hideyori. He might have also become the Ishida clan family head)

10. 3. (leap year) Mitsunari left Fushimi to be confined in Sawayama. Yūki Hideyasu was sent as his escort.

13. 3. (leap year) Ieyasu entered Fushimi castle’s Nishi no maru

19. 3. (leap year) Kuroda Nagamasa and Hachisuka Iemasa’s honour was restored.

21. 3. (leap year) Mōri Terumoto and Tokugawa Ieyasu exchanged an oath letter calling each other brothers

fourth month - Konishi Yukinaga, Tachibana Muneshige, Terazawa Hirotaka returned to Kyushu accompanying Shimazu Tadatsune, who was pardoned by 3-bugyō

(a strife between Shimazu clan and Ijūin clan, their retainers)

seventh month - more daimyō who returned from Korea were allowed to return back to their provinces

eighth month - Uesugi Kagekatsu and Naoe Kanetsugu returned to Aizu | Maeda Toshinaga returned to Kaga

18. 8. Ieyasu participated in Hideyoshi’s death anniversary ceremony at Hōkoku shrine

7. 9. Ieyasu left Fushimi castle and went to Osaka. He stayed in Ishida Mitsunari’s mansion (Ieyasu didn’t have his own mansion in Osaka)

(Terumoto’s son, age 4, went through genpuku at Osaka, got Hideyori’s “hide” and was named Hidenari)

(Ieyasu offered a congratulatory speech to Hideyori 9. 9. ?)

(rumours about a planned assassination on Ieyasu appeared sometime during this period)

13. 9. Ieyasu moved to Ishida Masazumi’s mansion (Masazumi went to Sakai)

26. 9. Kita no Mandokoro left Osaka castle’s Nishi no maru and went to live in Kyoto’s Shin (New) castle

27. 9. Ieyasu started to live in Osaka castle’s Nishi no maru

(Ōtani Yoshitsugu’s adopted son Daigakusuke (Yoshiharu) and 1 000 men sent by Ishida Mitsunari following Ieyasu’s orders blocked a way to the capital from Echizen, so Maeda Toshinaga wouldn’t be able to proceed to the capital. At the same time Katō Kiyomasa’s route to the capital was also blocked.)

tenth month - subjugation of Kaga | Asano Nagamasa lost his bugyō position and was confined in Kai | Hijikata Katsuhisa and Ōno Harunaga were also punished | Hosokawa Tadaoki, related by marriage to Maeda clan, who tried to apologize for Toshinaga, sent his son Tadatoshi to Edo as a hostage

eleventh month - Maeda Toshinaga sent his mother to Edo as a hostage

1600

first month - a rebellion in the Ukita clan occurred - Togawa Michiyasu and others (mostly important Ukita vassals) VS Nakamura Jirōbee and Hideie. Ōtani Yoshitsugu and Sakakibara Yasumasa (one of Ieyasu’s Shitennō = “Four Guardian Kings”) acted as mediators (there are many stories, though, one of them goes that Ieyasu got angry with Yasumasa for sticking his nose into other clan’s business and sent him home, so Yoshitsugu also pulled himself out.)

second month - Shimazu internal strife ended with Ijūin Tadazane’s capitulation (Ieyasu sent his vassal to act as mediator)

(Ieyasu gets reports that Kagekatsu plans a rebellion)

(Kagekatsu is asked to pay homage in the capital, but he refused. Mashita Nagamori and Ōtani Yoshitsugu were acting as mediators.)

14. 4. Naoe Kanetsugu’s letter 

(the rebellion in Ukita clan was settled by Ieyasu’s intervention. Togawa Michiyasu (the one who started it) and some others became Ieyasu’s vassals. Ukita clan’s power was seriously weakened.)

(At the end of fifth month, the subjugation of Uesugi was decided. The 3-bugyō were kind of against it, because Ieyasu would be “abandoning Hideyori in Osaka” but what could they do)

(After the rebellion was settled, Hideie was staying in Fushimi)

8. 6. - 11. 6. Hideie was back in his fief (what he did after that isn’t known, it’s assumed he went back to Kamigata since Terumoto was gone and Ieyasu would soon be gone. He most likely sent Ukita Akiie (Sakazaki Naomori) to Aizu as his stand-in)

8. ~ 10. 6. Terumoto departed from Osaka to return back to Hiroshima

14. 6. Terumoto ordered Ankokuji and Hiroie to depart to Aizu | Mōri Motonari’s 33rd death anniversary, which Terumoto carried out, was held at Tōshun-ji temple (today’s Yamaguchi prefecture)

15. 6. 3-bugyō gave an order to subjugate Aizu instructing the generals to follow Ieyasu’s orders

16. 6. Ieyasu departed to subjugate Aizu. He left Osaka and entered Fushimi.

17. 6. Terumoto visited Itsukushima Shrine and in the evening/night arrived to Hiroshima castle

18. 6. Ieyasu left Fushimi and departed for Edo.

2. 7. Ieyasu entered Edo | {traditionally it’s said that on this day Mitsunari and Yoshitsugu met at Sawayama, but there are many versions as to why}

4. 7. Ankokuji Ekei left Izumo

5. 7. Kikkawa Hiroie left Izumo | Ukita Hideie visited Hōkoku shrine (shrine enshrining Hideyoshi, there are theories he did that to prepare for “raising the army”)

(on his way to Aizu Ōtani Yoshitsugu stopped at Tarui in Minō (some 30 km away from Sawayama castle) because of his illness - it comes from a secondary source)

11. 7. traditionally, this is the day when Yoshitsugu and Mitsunari rose their armies together.

(around this time Ankokuji met with Ishida Mitsunari and Ōtani Yoshitsugu at Sawayama)

12. 7. Mashita Nagamori, Natsuka Masaie, Maeda Gen’i wrote to Terumoto to come back to Osaka (Terumoto got it on the 15th) | some of those who left to Aizu returned to Kamigata | some sort of disturbance was occurring in Fushimi and Osaka | rumours about Mitsunari’s possible departure for the front reached Kamigata

(from this day onward various people were writing to Ieyasu’s side about Mitsunari and Yoshitsugu’s suspicious movements. 3-bugyō, Hiroie and Yodo-dono included)

13. 7. Ankokuji Ekei and Kikkawa Hiroie arrived to Osaka | Hiroie learned about Mitsunari and Yoshitsugu’s plan

14. 7. a messenger from Ankokuji Ekei arrived to Hiroshima asking Terumoto to come to Osaka

15. 7. Terumoto departed from Hiroshima | Terumoto wrote to Katō Kiyomasa to go to Osaka | Ieyasu’s forces holed up in Fushimi castle | some forces that departed to Aizu returned back from Ōmi | Shimazu Yoshihiro sent a letter to Uesugi Kagekatsu telling him that Mōri Terumoto, Ukita Hideie, magistrates, Konishi Yukinaga, Ōtani Yoshitsugu, Ishida Mitsunari and himself decided to join his side

17. 7. Mashita Nagamori, Natsuka Masaie, Maeda Gen’i issued 13 charges against Ieyasu | Terumoto entered Osaka | Hosokawa Gracia died

18. 7. the siege of Fushimi castle started | Ieyasu’s forces in Fushimi burned down bugyo’s mansions (or wings in the castle) | Ishida Mitsunari visited Hōkoku shrine in Kyoto

19. 7. Tokugawa Hidetada’s forces left Edo to go to Aizu

21. 7. Ieyasu’s forces left Edo to go to Aizu

24. ~ 25. 7. meeting at Oyama. Ieyasu stayed at Oyama until the beginning of the eight month. 

29. 7. Mitsunari left Sawayama and participated in the siege of Fushimi

30. 7. Mitsunari entered Osaka castle.

1. 8. Fushimi castle fell | the Toyotomi generals (Fukushima, Tōdō, Ikeda, Kuroda) went west followed by Honda Tadakatsu and Ii Naomasa

5. 8. Mitsunari left Osaka and returned to Sawayama | Ieyasu returned to Edo and stayed there almost a month

9. 8. Mitsunari left Sawayama and went to Tarui in Minō.

10. 8. Mitsunari entered Ōgaki castle

23. 8. Gifu castle fell

1. 9. Ieyasu left Edo and aimed back to Kinai

7. 9. siege of Ōtsu castle started

14. 9. Ieyasu arrived to Akasaka | Mitsunari, Konishi Yukinaga, Ukita Hideie, Shimazu Yoshihiro moved from Ōgaki castle to Sekigahara/Yamanaka (or wherever the battle took place) | Fukushima Masanori and other Toyotomi generals followed 

15. 9. Sekigahara | Ōtsu castle capitulated

18. 9. Sawayama castle fell

23. 9. a peace between Ieyasu and Terumoto | Ōgaki castle capitulated

25. 9. Terumoto left Osaka castle’s Nishi no maru and moved to his mansion in Settsu province where he retired (in the third part of the 10th month, he gave the clan headship to his young son Hidenari (age 5), shaved his head and took a new name Sōzui) 

27. 9. Ieyasu entered Osaka castle’s Nishi no maru

[ranseifist]

[ COWARDS DIE MANY DEATHS, BUT A TRUE WARRIOR NEVER DIES. ]

Shimazu Yoshihiro did not simply appear one day- he was born, just like any normal human. And as such, he had a father.

Shimazu Takahisa, previous leader of Pugilis and revered as a mighty war god of the south, was often viewed as hedonic and violent- and those who assumed that would be right, to some degree. The man fought all too often- he desired nothing more in life than an excellent fight against the strongest the world had to offer, the finest drinks the likes some could only dream of tasting, and the love of beautiful maidens.

But he also fought to protect his kingdom. He often took time to build it up, visit the people who he fought for and who fought for him, the ones he loved and the ones who loved him for his leadership. By no stretch of the word was he a bad warlord- it was just that too often his desires and boredom would drive him to engage in pointless conflicts. So often, there would be times when none could find him in his own kingdom- he would leave to fight in another kingdom’s war, simply for the fight of it!

A wild war god he was, and his adventures brought him many things- friends, fortune, and family. He never truly had a wife, as he sought nothing to tie him down, but that never stopped him from exploring all of the more carnal things in life. From those exploits, he gained heirs- Yoshihiro, Yoshihisa, Toshihisa, and Iehisa.

And just as he gained family, he also lost them. Iehisa was still-born to the warrior’s despair, and Toshihisa was a target for assassination by one of his many enemies.

But the other two, they grew to be strong warriors- it filled the man up with such pride, rekindling the dwindled spirit that had died some at the losses he suffered. And those two boys never ceased to amaze him, to impress him with their skills and love, and this stuck with Takahisa to the very end.

When sickness had stricken him and weakened him, he feared a pitiful death. He couldn’t die from something like this- the dishonor that would bring to him would carry on endlessly and follow his sons without stop. Knowing this, he approached both and gave his final request: to duel him in such a mighty battle that it would live on in history eternally.

What a mighty battle it was- both sons fought with twice the fury and fervor Takahisa once had himself. Though tears were shed and promises were made, at the very end, Takahisa had been felled. He parted, leaving everything to his sons, and passing on in peace, a proud warrior to the very end.

What became of Yoshihisa is only known to Yoshihiro, but as the for the latter, he grew to be a worthy successor of the Warlord position.

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Pokemon Conquest Lore - Kyushu/Pugilis+Violight

Specifically for @thxnderwind​, @ranseiuniter​, and @ranseifist​, since Kyushu in Main!Verse translates to the kingdoms of Pugilis and Violight in Pokemon Conquest, and since Cher asked for some lore before. I have already shared these ideas with Arashi, but since there seems to be a chance that I’ll be able to share them with everyone else in the PC!Verse, here goes! 8D

So this is basically me carrying some elements of Main!Verse over to PC!Verse, trimming some details that either aren’t needed or wouldn’t work in Conquest, changing things, or adding things, but now comes the point where I stop fluffing this thing out of nervous habit and get to the actual lore.

General

The way I’m imagining the transition from Main!Verse to PC!Verse is basically Kyushu in Sengoku being translated to the kingdoms of Violight and Pugilis in Pokemon.

In history, the three major forces within Kyushu were Shimazu, Ryuzoji, and Otomo (with the Tachibana as a vassal clan of great strength). Since the war in Ransei seems to be just as serious as the one in Japan, and there is history of kingdoms being swallowed up by other kingdoms, I’m going to say that that’s probably the history of Pugilis and Violight. In Main!Verse, it’s the Shimazu that destroys and conquers the Ryuzoji clan, while the Tachibana clan eventually realizes that they can no longer serve the incompetent Otomo clan and moves for independence.

For the Pokemon Verse, I’m thinking that that same thing happens. Pugilis is a country within Ransei united under the rule of the Shimazu. It was at least two countries before, one ruled by the Shimazu and the other ruled by the Ryuzoji. The Shimazu just went and conquered the Ryuzoji, taking everything they had---from the castles to the monetary holds, along with...just about everything else.

Violight is probably going to be the same thing when it comes to the Otomo and the Tachibana. Whether the Tachibana are completely independent from the Otomo even before, I’ll leave up to whatever Arashi and I work out, but whatever the case is, the Tachibana is destined to conquer and destroy the Otomo. Violight is destined to be a country ruled under the Tachibana.

Pugilis A (Ryuzoji)

So I also gotta talk about the Ryuzoji, even though the Shimazu have eradicated them from the map of Ransei. The focal character of his lore will be a Historical OC of mine, Masaie, and I guess you could say his father Takanobu.

Unfortunately, as of right now, there isn’t going to be a lot, just because Masaie is a relatively new character, and I have yet to really think up a fully-developed backstory for him. :P I’ve only really thought of his future, since he leads a tragic story in history. But...

The Ryuzoji were always going at it with the Shimazu and the Otomo/Tachibana in attempt to acquire their territories. Everyone wanted to have that Legendary Pokemon’s power to themselves, and Takanobu was no exception. Takanobu had made a name for himself as a villainous schemer, exemplifying this when his men kidnapped the Otomo’s daughter while en route to Greenleaf.

And, uh... Then they got their asses kicked by the Shimazu, lel. (Wow, I did warn you guys, but that even surprised me.) Takanobu was lured out into a trap set up by Shimazu Iehisa, and was quickly slain.

As Takanobu’s firstborn son, Masaie had been made his father’s heir, in spite of the fact that he was physically weak and a poor leader. When the Shimazu pushed him into a corner, he was forced to abandon his father’s kingdom, and fled from present-day Pugilis.

Arashi and I have decided that Masaie would end up in Violight and be friends with her Naotsugu, lol.

Pugilis B (Shimazu)

The focal characters for this lore will be Toyohisa, his sister Alitalia, and his cousin Meguru. ...Especially Alitalia.

In history, before Yoshihiro was the leader of the Shimazu club, it was his older brother, Yoshihisa. Yoshihiro was Yoshihisa’s greatest general before he took up the reign. Their younger brother, Toshihisa, was another powerful soldier among their ranks. Their youngest brother, Toyohisa’s and Alitalia’s father, Iehisa, was the strategist that assured everything worked according to plan.

I’m not entirely sure when exactly this would happen (I guess I’ll leave this up to whatever Sushi and I work out), but at some point... All of Yoshihiro’s brothers are probably gonna die. xD Or, at least Yoshihisa and Iehisa (this adds to story). And I wanna say that happens prior to the story.

Meguru is the daughter and only child of Yoshihisa, so she’s his heir. I had the idea that she might have inherited Pugilis in light of Yoshihisa’s death, but again, that’s up to whatever Sushi and I decide.

As for Alitalia... She blames everything on Yoshihiro. She strongly believes that it’s the fault of his ambitions that her father and uncle(s) were killed in battle, and she’s also blaming him for the excitement Toyo and Meg have for battle. Toyohisa is an earnest boy who’s picked up his uncle’s eagerness to overcome challenges, especially on the field of battle. Meguru has become complacent and mean, almost as if she’s trying hard to prove her own worth as her father’s reign by casually bragging about the things the Shimazu have done to other clans, like the Ryuzoji and the Tachibana. So Ali eventually makes the decision to leave, and travels across Ransei until she ends up in Fontaine (and stays there because she falls in love with Motochika).

Violight

A focal character in this lore will be an OC of mine, Suguri. And there’s a couple of Historical OCs of mine; Naotsugu (or Arashi’s Naotsugu, doesn’t matter, jlsdjfkj) and Kiyo; along with another OC of mine, Nautica. (There’s also another Historical OC I have in the makes, Yoshimune; I will have a blog up for him one of these days.)

In Main!Verse, she’s the illegitimate daughter between Otomo Sorin and the wife of Tachibana Dosetsu, making her the younger half-sister of Tachibana Ginchiyo. To summarize her story, her half-brother from Sorin, Yoshimune, takes her back into the Otomo for the sole purpose of using her to seal an alliance with the Mori, but she’s abducted en route by the Ryuzoji, and finds herself being dragged across the land until she ends up being picked up by Ieyasu.

I want to say the situation would be pretty similar in PC!Verse. She was held captive by the Ryozuji (cared for by Masaie) until the Shimazu conquered their kingdom, and everything fell apart. She was again abducted by someone who had defected from the Ryuzoji and dragged her all across Ransei (tw: child abuse) until they eventually ended up in Valora (the guy eventually took off and never came back, leading Suguri to be rescued by her Perfect Link, which happens to be a Manaphy--)

And, back to Violight...

I’m imagining that the Otomo and the Tachibana would have at least been allied up until a number of things. For one, there was the extramarital affair between Sorin and Dosetsu’s wife, which gave life to Suguri. What may have pushed the Tachibana over the edge could have been Sorin’s kids from his own wife, though---his daughter Kiyo and eldest son and heir Yoshimune.

Both children had learned a lot from their father about being patronizing. Yoshimune had inherited his father’s kingdom shortly after the extramarital affair, but acted as if he had complete authority over everyone’s lives. He was the type of leader who would order people and Pokemon to die for him, without ever setting foot onto the field of battle himself, as he was the type to wonder why every single campaign of his ended in failure.

Kiyo was always hypercritical of everyone, including both her brother and members of the Tachibana clan. She shared her brother’s trait of being quick to order people and Pokemon to die for her without ever setting foot into the field of battle herself. She would mock her brother with every failed campaign against both the Shimazu and the Ryuzoji, and Yoshimune spent a lot more time fighting with his sister than even trying to learn how to be an effective leader.

I would imagine that the Tachibana, having been allied with the Otomo once before, eventually grew tired of the continuous orders made by the Otomo to bend over backwards with the Otomo weren’t offering a single thing for their service. There may have been times where Naotsugu faced several near-death experiences, and Nautica’s father (her father was Yufu Korenobu, one of the Tachibana’s Four Heavenly Kings in history) and brothers may have even been killed because of the Otomo’s orders, just to start. So that’s when the Tachibana go and eradicate them from the map of Ransei (or however Arashi and I plan this thing out, jlkj).

Who knows what happens to Yoshimune and Kiyo at this point, I don’t--

[scoobydoojedi]

Nejime clan

The  Nejime clan n were descended from Taira no Koremori, whose grandson Kiyoshige took the name Nejime; members of the clan served as officials in Ôsumi province going back to ancient times. In the 14th century, they played a prominent role in fighting alongside the Shimazu clan in supporting Ashikaga Takauji and the Northern Court in the wars of the Nanboku-chô period.

From the Muromachi period onward, the Nejime focused on controlling trade. Nejime Shigehirain particular was active in trade with Ryûkyûand China.In the 16th century, members of the Itô,Kimotsuki, and Tanegashima clans became embroiled in succession disputes over the headship of the Shimazu clan. After this, the Nejime and Kimotsuki rose up against the Shimazu. They attempted an amphibious attack on Kagoshima in 1571 but were rebuffed; the Shimazu defeated the Itô in the battle of Kizakihara the following year. Realizing their situation was dire, the Nejime capitulated to the Shimazu the next year, in 1573, becoming Shimazu retainers.

*Extra info*

In the early modern period, one branch of the Nejime clan changed its name to Komatsu.

*Prominent People*

*Nejime Shigenaga* (1536 – 1580) Shigenaga was a retainer of the Kimotsuki clan, and the 16th generation head of his family.He joined Kimotsuki Kanetsugu in the fight against the Shimazu in Ōsumi Province. However, following the Kimotsuki clan's defeat, Shigenaga saw that the family's position was untenable, so he independently concluded a peace agreement with Shimazu Yoshihisa. This incurred the wrath of Kimotsuki Kanesuke, who attacked him; however, the Shimazu were able to save Shigenaga from death. Later, Shigenaga became a retainer under Shimazu Yoshihisa, and assisted the Shimazu clan in issues of trade. Shigenaga is said to be the first person who encouraged the cultivation of mandarin oranges in Japan.

*Nejime Shigetake* (????-????) Nejime Shigetake was the 16th head of his family and was at first a retainer of the Kimotsuki of Ôsumi (Shigetake's Nejime castle that he built was located in that province). He later became a retainer of Shimazu Yoshihisa and was an active in various economic development projects.

[jennyocean]

Five Most Famous Samurai Warriors in History

Five Most Famous Samurai Warriors in History

1    Shimazu Yoshihisa One of the most famous warlords from the Sengoku period, Shimazu Yoshihisa hailed from the Satsuma Province. He was married to his aunt for a brief time. He launched a campaign to unify Kyushu, and tasted many victories. His clan ruled a major part of Kyushu for many years, but was eventually defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After the defeat, Yoshihisa is believed to have…

[tono-to-issho]

by 静

[theworldaswedontknowit]

Hideyoushi's Conquest of Japan

Sorry this is late, but I got it out right? Imjin Wars next, grisly. That's a reconstruction of Odawara, the original was pulled down by the Meiji Government in the 1870s

Hideyoushi’s conquest of Japan took place from 1585 – 1590, beginning with his invasion of Shikoku and ending with his victorious siege against the Hojo of Odawara. It’s impressive considering that he did in five years, even with the army sizes that he could boast and the fact that he had a strong power basin already built for him by Oda. Hideyoushi had a way of doing things though and it won people over in ways that Oda couldn’t.

You could consider that actually, Hideyoushi’s alliance with the Mouri was his first act in consolidating his power. While it was so that he could rush back to Kyoto and destroy the rebelling Akechi, it was still a good move. This is because the Mouri were huge and had spent much of the time Oda had building up his own power doing the exact same thing in the South/West. Mouri Motonari – perhaps the most famous Mouri of all – is considered an excellent strategist for a reason.

Considering that Hideyoushi had trouble defeating the Mouri in the first place it was a good move to get them on his side as it opened up the opportunities to advance on the largely independent islands of Shikoku and Kyushu  – which he would do in 1585 and 1587 respectively. The Mouri gave Hideyoushi considerable strength in numbers.

He was also relying on the most Northern families, such as the Date and the Uesugi occupying themselves – which they were doing as the Date strived to claim what would become their own territory. The Uesugi were a little more difficult, they hadn’t been destroyed like their rivals Takeda and Hideyoushi strived to keep good relations with them so they didn’t attack him.

With the successful campaigns against the Shibata’s forces and the Tokugawa, Hideyoushi was free to start looking at the rest of the plan. His first attack would be on the South, they were weaker in numbers in comparison to likes of the Hojo and I doubt Hideyoushi had any wishes to make the Tokugawa and Uesugi suspicious of his movements. So, he went for Shikoku first.

He also had an excuse to attack the lord of the Island, Chosokabe Motochika, as he had technically been on Shibata’s side and had defeated a Daimyo on Hideyoushi’s during the affair. At first Hideyoushi simply demanded Awa and Iyo, Chosokabe challenging him by saying he would only hand over Awa. Hideyoushi, suitably irritated, invaded the Island with a total of 90,000 soldiers.

Chosokabe’s surrender would come only a month later and this was where Hideyoushi made himself a touch more popular than his predecessor. Instead of having Chosokabe either killed or forcing him to commit suicide he was spared. Granted, Hideyoushi took not just Awa and Iyo but also Sanuki. However, he did leave Chosokabe with Tosa – the final province on the island. One down, two to go.

However, this time he didn’t have a reason to just descend on Kyushu. That would change, however, when a plea was sent to him by Otomo Sorin. For the last decade or so the Shimazu had advanced through Kyushu, claiming land for themselves while Oda and Hideyoushi were more preoccupied with their own holdings. This plea was Hideyoushi’s excuse, though it would be an entire year before any troops were actually sent.

When they did finally send troops, led by Chosokabe Motochika and Sengoku Hisahide, the campaign was something of a disaster to begin with. While they were told to stand on the defensive by Hideyoushi, Otomo and Sengoku advanced on a fort and tried to relive a fort that was being besieged by the Shimazu at the time. Chosokabe would also protest against the move and sadly, he would suffer from its consequences. His son, the 22 year old Nobuchika, would lose his life trying to fight the Shimazu off. I think it’s easy to believe that Motochika might have been a touch bitter, Nobuchika was also his eldest son.

Eventually, Hideyoushi would start sending reinforcements. Firstly, Hashiba Hidenaga (Hideyoushi’s half-brother) would arrive with 60,000 men, along with the Mouri/Kobayakawa Takakage with 90,000. Just a note about him, Takakage was a Mouri man by birth, the third son of Motonari, he had been adopted by the Kobayakawa. Putting this at a total of 150,000 on top of the 30,000 that Hideoyushi would bring the following month the Toyotomi would cruise along the east coast, chasing the Shimazu back to their home territory of Satsuma.

Hideyoushi would camp on the hills above the castle town and wait them out. He was relying on their nerves, hoping that such a large force would scare them into submission. Which it did, the Shimazu would only cross swords with the Toyotomi once. Not long after, the head of the clan – Shimazu Yoshihisa – would arrive at Toyotomi’s camp, his head shaven and surrendered to the Toyotomi. Two down, one to go.

In 1590, three years later, Hideyoushi would stage the final national level battle in Japan for at least a decade, the next being the decisive Sekigahara two years after Hideyoushi had died. There were two parts to defeating the Hojo. There was the siege of Odawara, their main castle and the one lived in by the Hojo family. The other was the Siege of Oshi castle, defended by the Narita family.

The actual siege of the Odawara was uneventful and lots of it actually depended on logistics. The Hojo had hoped that Hideyoushi’s inadequate supplies might force him to call of the siege before he managed to starve the Hojo out. HIdeyoushi’s excuse for the siege actually lay with the Sanada clan this time, who were still a rather minor clan who were former retainers of the Takeda. They and the Hojo had been disputing about Numata castle for many years, Hideyoushi – basically being in charge of the country – intervened and gave most of the land to the Hojo but allowed the castle and the surrounding district to remain formally under the Sanada. However, that same year, the Hojo would storm the castle and kill the lord stationed there. Thus, Hideyoushi had his siege and some very angry Sanadas on his side.

The other side, Oshi castle, was headed by Ishida Mitsunari under Hideyoushi’s instruction. His commanding of this siege I think gives some weight as to just how important Mitsunari was to Hideyoushi. It was also a fatal error that led to Mitsunari being slandered, certainly in the Edo period if not at the time as well. A flood attack would be conducted on the castle, certainly of an impressive scale, but it would ultimately fail. It’s because of this that Mitsunari is seen as a poor commander, his attack failing and the Narita family only giving in when the Hojo collapsed. While I believe that it could have been executed better by Mitsunari, he certainly can’t be blamed for all of it. He was ultimately acting under Hideyoushi’s orders and was actually against the attack. I suggest, if you want a clearer (and possibly more correct telling) go ask @jibuyo as they're who bought this to light for me, previously I'd thought it was Mitsunari's doing.

It took three months before the Hojo would be starved out and Hideyoushi changed his tune a little bit. His tactic of allowing the defeated to live in exchange for their lands wasn’t implemented. This time, Hojo Ujimasa would commit suicide along with other members of the Hojo clan. This disintegrated any influence they might have had, along with this their lands were given to Ieyasu in return for the ones he currently held.  

So, Hideyoushi had Japan. The sheer force that he now boasted was enough to make the Northern clans such as the Date submit without much trouble. In fact, Hideyoushi had ordered that Masamune participate in the Siege of Odawara – which he did do…but only once he’d made sure he knew who was going to win. The aftermath of the Siege of Odawara was an important move politically, while it might have failed after his death, it certainly kept things peaceful for Hideyoushi while he was alive.

He had moved Tokugawa.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, without a doubt, was the most powerful man militarily when separated from Hideyoushi.  He was also well liked, which could have been an issue. While removing him to Kanto gave Ieyasu a degree of autonomy due to its remoteness from the capital it also took him, far, far away from Hideyoushi and his more loyal men in Kyoto. Perhaps, if Ieyasu had remained closer he would have done to Hideyoushi what Mitsuhide had done to Nobunaga. Something tells me that Hideyoushi didn’t like that idea. Now that Tokugawa was no longer much use in pacifying the lords around him – since there were, no lords left to pacify – it seems only sensible that Hideyoushi would shoo him off to somewhere he could see his army approaching from while still having time to ready his own.

[jibuyo]

Ishida Mitsunari - chronology

A post detailing Ishida Mitsunari’s career year by year. Might be updated from time to time. (last update October 18)

(months follow old Japanese system)

1560

Mitsunari was born in Ōmi province, Sakata-gun, Ishida-mura (Shiga prefecture, Nagahama city, Ishida-chō) as a second son to Ishida Masatsugu. Childhood name Sakichi.

1574 

While doing a training/studying at Kan’onji (Sakata-gun, Ōhara) [or Ika-gun, Furuhashi-mura’s Hokkenji ✶1], he met Hashiba Hideyoshi and became his attendant {at least that’s how the famous anecdote goes. There’s also a theory that Mitsunari became Hideyoshi’s retainer when he was 18 while Hideyoshi was at Himeji.}

1577 

It is thought that from this year Mitsunari started to serve as Hideyoshi’s attendant. (Hideyoshi’s conquest of Chūgoku)

He probably got married around this period.

1581

accompanies Hideyoshi on an attack on Sengoku Hidehisa (this probably comes from some story from Edo, but anything prior to 1583 is probably just Mitsunari following Hideyoshi around)

1583

March~April - During battle of Shizugatake against Shibata Katsuie, Mitsunari was collecting intelligence. His name was written using different kanji - 三也.

July - A letter addressed to Naoe Kanetsugu signed by Mitsunari (together with Mashita Nagamori and Kimura Kiyohisa) exists. 

1584

March - the battle of Komaki-Nagakute {it is said that he participated, but I’m not 100% sure}

continues writing to Kanetsugu (together with Mashita Nagamori and Kimura Kiyohisa)

November - he started to work as a land survey magistrate (検地奉行) for Ōmi province’s Gamō-gun (the possibility that he did is high) 

1585

March - possibility he was with Hideyoshi in Kishū province

July - Hideyoshi became the Regent and Mitsunari was given the fifth rank title Jibu no shō {together with other eleven people, for example Ōtani Yoshitsugu - Gyōbu no shō - and Mashita Nagamori}

switched from using “Sakichi” to “Jibu no shō”, changed his name from 三也 to 三成. 

August - Hideyoshi attacked Ecchū’s Sasa Narimasa. {It is said that Mitsunari went to Katsuyama castle to meet with Naoe Kanetsugu to organize meeting between Kagekatsu and Hideyoshi, but you know it might be just a story} 

1586

May - Uesugi Kagekatsu proceeded to the capital (Kyoto). Mitsunari went to meet him and together, they entered Kyoto.

June - Mitsunari was appointed to a governmental office (as a magistrate 堺奉行) in Sakai - worked together with Konishi Ryūsa (Konishi Yukinaga’s father). Ōtani Yoshitsugu acted as Mitsunari’s assistant.

During his time as a magistrate of Sakai, he met Luis Frois: “[Konishi] Ryūsa was the best, ideal person, the first Christian in the capital and friend of all Christians and a father of the navy captain [Konishi] Yukinaga. His coworker was Sakichi-dono, Kampaku-dono’s [Hideyoshi’s] vassal, big enemy of Ryūsa, who didn’t take any pleasure from Kampaku’s tyranny, and enemy of Christians. He was jealous, ambitious, arrogant and overall just corrupt.” Most likely around this time, there was an incident involving Japanese Christians (it happened in 1586). A merchant family Hibiya had a tea ceremony and something went wrong and Hibiya Ryōkei’s younger brothers Gaspar and Tōan (not Christian) were killed by Hibiya Sōsatsu’s (Lucas’) younger brother Ryōkan. Ryōkan killed himself at the scene. Because the Hibiyas were a rich merchant family, Hideyoshi used this opportunity to confiscate their tea utensils and other riches and ordered Lucas’ execution. This order was carried out by “Sakichi-dono”. He also ordered a capture of wives and children (between 2 and 15) and put them in a dark dungeon. In the end, only Lucas was crucified, because of a combined help of the two Konishis, Nene and other Christian maids who managed to talk Hideyoshi out of it. (more here, Sōsatsu was a terrible person, who kidnapped - and probably worse - his wife-to-be, Hibiya Monica)

1587

March - Hideyoshi left Osaka to attack the Shimazu clan. Mitsunari most likely went with him.

April - together with Otani Yoshitsugu and Ankokuji Ekei wrote a letter [hopefully more info will come later]

May - Hideyoshi attacked the Shimazu clan. Mitsunari served in logistics. He also worked together with Ankokuji Ekei. After Shimazu Yoshihisa shaved his head to request peace, Niiro Tadamoto was still resisting, but Mitsunari went together with Ijūin Tadamune to persuade Tadamoto and made him capitulate.

Participated in a poem meeting at Itsukushima shrine - 春ごとの頃しもたえぬ山桜よも霧島の心ちこそすれ

July 10 - back in Sakai.

Mitsunari was appointed as magistrate of Hakata (博多奉行). After that he commenced a reconstruction of the city. (on Kyūshū) ???

1588

Shimazu Yoshihiro met with Hideyoshi in Osaka castle.

He was in contact with Shimazu clan quite a lot in the second half of this year.

Mitsunari’s post as magistrate of Sakai was given to his older brother Masazumi.

1589

February - Hideyoshi ordered Honganji Kōsa (Kennyo) to hand over the rōnins he had with him and Mitsunari together with Mashita Nagamori took care of it.

June - Mutō Yoshikatsu from Dewa province came to the capital and Mitsunari and Nagamori welcomed him.

Together with Asano Nagayoshi (Nagamasa) he sent his retainers to do land survey in Minō province.

1590

February 28 - left Kyoto for Kantō.

April 3 - arrived close to Odawara, was stationed within Hideyoshi’s camp.

May 26 - attacking Tatebayashi castle,

June - Mitsunari, Ōtani Yoshitsugu, and Natsuka Masaie attacked Oshi castle. Later others joined as well (e.g. Satake Yoshinobu, Sanada Masayuki...)

July - Ōshū punishment. Gamō Ujisato, Asano Nagayoshi, Ishida Mitsunari etc.

September - he was in Ōshu until now, after that he returned back to Kyoto/Osaka.

December - went to Ōshu again.   

1591

January - arrived to Sōma.

February middle - returned to Kyoto.

April - Mitsunari became a governor of some parts of Ōmi (Sakata-gun where he was born) and Minō that were under the direct control of Toyotomi.

July~October - Because of Kunohe Masazane’s uprising in Ōshū, he was sent there with Asano Nagayoshi. In October he went back to Kyoto.

December 28 - Toyotomi Hidetsugu became kampaku.

1592

February - with Ōtani Yoshitsugu left Kyoto for Hizen-Nagoya.

March - became a boat-bugyō (船奉行) with Yoshitsugu and some other people.

June - Together with Mashita Nagamori and Ōtani Yoshitsugu crossed the sea to Korea to act as general magistrates.

July - they entered Hanseong (today’s Seoul) and opened war council with other generals.

Mitsunari, Yoshitsugu, Nagamori sent a letter back to Japan commenting on the situation (which wasn’t positive. “if it continues like this, Japanese will be eliminated” “you can’t enter China within a year”).

1593

January - Battle of Byeokjegwan with Mashita Nagamori and Ōtani Yoshitsugu

February - Siege of Haengju

March - started peace negotiations together with Konishi Yukinaga

May 13 - arrived back to Hizen-Nagoya (with Yoshitsugu, Nagamori, Yukinaga)

May 24 - left Nagoya to return back to Korea (with Yoshitsugu and Nagamori)

June - a peace treaty was offered by Hideyoshi with ridiculous conditions

July - with Yoshitsugu and Nagamori was ordered to do land survey of Echigo. He dispatched his vassals or subordinates.

His brother Masazumi was given a fifth rank title.

dealing with Shimazu

September - back in Nagoya

1594

March - Shimazu Iehisa that Mitsunari was looking after in Fushimi got an audience with Hideyoshi.

July - the land survey of Shimazu clan started

September 3 - Mitsunari’s mother’s funeral service was held at Daitokuji’s Sangen’in (Kyōto) ✶2

October - land survey of Satake clan

1595

June - Together with Mashita Nagamori and Maeda Gen’i went to Jurakudai to question the Regent Toyotomi Hidetsugu. 

July 12 - with Mashita Nagamori they had to swear their loyalty to Hideyori

July 15 - Hidetsugu committed seppuku at Mt. Kōya. His old fiefs in Ōmi go to Mitsunari and Mitsunari becomes a daimyō of Sawayama (a castle owner) with 194 000 koku (before he had 100 000 koku. In reality, Mitsunari was supposed to move to Owari-Kiyosu with 210 000 koku, but he refused(? there were change of plans?) and the fief went to Fukushima Masanori

Mitsunari and Nagamori were appointed governors of Kyoto.

August - land survey of Yamato (most likely, because it came under the direct control of main Toyotomi branch, because Yamato-Toyotomi was no more).

1596

January - Together with Mashita Nagamori, Maeda Gen’i, and Natsuka Masaie pledged their loyalty to Hideyori. ✶3

June - The Ming envoy comes to Osaka, Mitsunari is tasked with entertainment.

July 7 - earthquake in Fushimi, magnitude 7-8. Fushimi castle’s main keep was destroyed.

September - Hideyoshi met with the Chinese envoy in Osaka, got angry and decided to sent a new wave to Korea.

November 15 - the oppression against Christians was getting severe, so Mitsunari advised Organtino ✶4 to escape to Nagasaki.

December - Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan - Hideyoshi ordered all Franciscans and Christians living in the Ōsaka-Kyōto area to be captured and executed. At that time, Mitsunari served as the magistrate of Kyōto and minimized the arrests and reduced the list of names heavily - to 15 names - (he tried to plead to Hideyoshi for not including Jesuits - and managed to exclude Takayama Ukon, one of the prominent Christian daimyō). In the end six foreign missionaries and friars and eighteen Japanese friars and believers were captured, transported to Nagasaki (on the way two others joined them) and crucified. Hideyoshi also ordered to cut off both ears and nose of those captured, but at the discretion of Mitsunari it stopped only at cutting of a left earlobe. (detailed post)

1597

February - among the seven overseers that went to Korea were Mitsunari’s brothers-in-law Fukuhara Nagataka and Kumagai Naomori.

Go-bugyō system was established. Asano Nagamasa was made the head of them.

It is believed that Mitsunari spent most of the year in Fushimi, acting as Hideyoshi’s agent. (Some of it is hinted in letters to Sanada Nobuyuki.)

1598

January - Uesugi Kagekatsu got relocated to Aizu. Mitsunari went to Aizu to inspect the fiefs.

May 3 - returned to Sawayama.

May 29 - he went to Chikuzen (Kobayakawa Hideaki’s old fief) as its governor {he refused to take the province as his own and move there from Sawayama, but he was still tasked with managing it together with Asano Nagamasa}

July latter half - returned to Kyoto/Osaka.

August 18 - Hideyoshi died at Fushimi

September 8 - Terumoto thanked him that he took some of old Takakage’s vassals as his own

October end - arrived to Hakata to withdrew forces from Korea with Asano Nagamasa and Mōri Hidemoto.

December 24 - returned to Ōsaka 

Dispute between Mitsunari (Konishi Yukinaga, Shimazu Yoshihiro, Kobayakawa Hidekane, Arima Harunobu, Ōmura Yoshiaki, Tachibana Muneshige) and Asano Nagamasa (Katō Kiyomasa, Kuroda Nagamasa, Kuroda Josui...), because of different views concerning withdrawal from Korea. ✶5 {Konishi and Katō hated each other, Konishi and Asano were also on bad terms, Mitsunari was Konishi’s “special close friend”} ✶6

1599

January 19 - Mitsunari/Toshiie publicly condemned Ieyasu for making personal marriage arrangements. The rest of the Elders and magistrates took Mitsunari’s side. 

February 2 - bugyō shaved their heads in Fushimi

March 3 (leap year) - Maeda Toshiie died

March 4 (leap year) - Katō Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Kuroda Nagamasa, Asano Yukinaga, Hosokawa Tadaoki, Hachisuka Iemasa, Tōdō Takatora launched an attack on Mitsunari. Mitsunari fled from Ōsaka to his own part of Fushimi castle - Jibunoshōyumaru. 

March 10/11 (leap year) ? - Ieyasu intervened, Mitsunari lost his post and was sent to Sawayama castle. The one accompanying him was Yūki Hideyasu, Tokugawa Ieyasu’s second son, who was given for adoption to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and skipped in favour of the third son Hidetada. ✶7

Summer - Maeda Toshinaga and Asano Nagamasa were suspected of rebellion/assassination of Ieyasu - the subjugation of Kaga. It is recorded that Mitsunari also departed to Echizen following Ieyasu’s orders. Maeda Toshinaga surrendered before any fight started and sent his mother as a hostage to Ieyasu. Asano Nagamasa was confined into his house in Musashi province and lost his magistrate post.

1600

((May - Kanetsugu Naoe sent “Naoe’s letter” and after that the subjugation of Aizu started)) {historians are divided if such a letter existed or not; there are several copies preserved, with different wordings.}

June 6 - Ieyasu leaves Osaka to subjugate Aizu.

Mitsunari promised Ieyasu to sent his eldest son Shigeie to participate in the subjugation of Aizu

beginning of July - Ōtani Yoshitsugu led his army to join the subjugation of Aizu through Ōmi and stopped at Sawayama

Ankokuji Ekei met with Mitsunari and Yoshitsugu

Mitsunari and Yoshitsugu rose their armies (and went to Ōsaka???)

July 15 - Shimazu Yoshihiro’s letter to Uesugi Kagekatsu makes clear that the main players are all in agreement: Mōri Terumoto, Ukita Hideie, magistrates, Konishi Yukinaga, Ōtani Yoshitsugu, Ishida Mitsunari

July 17 - Mashita Nagamori, Natsuka Masaie, and Maeda Gen’i made 内府ちかひの条々 (”things Ieyasu did wrong”) ✶8 public, i.e. sent to many feudal lords (noble families in Kyōto also got their hands on it). In the document, they condemned Ieyasu for all of his wrongdoings in 13 points. ✶9

July 18 - Mitsunari visited Hōkoku shrine in Kyōto (Hōkoku shrine - a shrine where Toyotomi Hideyoshi is enshrined) leading troops with him.

July 27 - Mitsunari was at Sawayama castle (received letter from Sanada Masayuki)

July 29 - Fushimi castle (but there were also rumors that he entered Osaka castle on this day)

July 30 - Mitsunari was at/entered Osaka castle

last day of July - Mitsunari sent a letter to Sanada Masayuki; three messengers arrived to Masayuki, two continued to Aizu 

August 1 - Fushimi castle fell

from August, letters signed by all four bugyō appeared, so Mitsunari was not “unemployed” anymore

August 5 - sent a letter to Sanada Masayuki, Nobuyuki, Nobushige

August 6 - sent a letter to Sanada Masayuki. He was at Sawayama castle.

August 8 - left Sawayama and proceeded on the way to Owari province (there were plans to capture Kiyosu castle)

August 10 - entered Ōgaki castle in Minō. Sent letter to Sanada Masayuki, Nobushige

August 26 - withdrew from Ōgaki castle back to Sawayama ??

beginning of September - back at Ōgaki castle

September 12 - sent letter to Mashita Nagamori talking about the situation. However, this letter is a copy; Shiramine Jun and Nakai Shun’ichirō believe that it might be fake

September 14 - Mitsunari, Konishi Yukinaga, Ukita Hideie, Shimazu Yoshihiro moved from Ōgaki castle (to Sekigahara/Yamanaka)

September 15 - the battle of Sekigahara. After he lost, Mitsunari ran away to the surroundings of Mt. Ibuki

September 17 - Sawayama castle burned down and Mitsunari’s father, brother and his family, and wife committed suicide (it’s possible that his wife escaped)

September 21 - Mitsunari was captured in Furuhashi and taken to Ōtsu castle

October 1 - Ishida Mitsunari, Konishi Yukinaga, and Ankokuji Ekei were executed at Rokujōgawara in Kyōto (before execution they were paraded around Ōsaka, Sakai, and Kyōto).

✶1 As a small child, Mitsunari studied at Hokkenji. Furuhashi is the place where Mitsunari escaped to after Sekigahara. It’s also a place where Mitsunari’s mother was born; her tomb used to be at Hokkenji.

✶2 This is the temple where Ishida Mitsunari’s tomb is.

✶3 Ishida Mitsunari, Mashita Nagamori, Maeda Gen’i, and Natsuka Masaie are future go-bugyō. The system of these four is already in business. Asano Nagamasa is added later.

✶4 Gnecchi-Soldo Organtino was an Italian missionary (a member of the Society of Jesus) who first came to Japan when Oda Nobunaga was alive and gained his trust and with his patronage spread Christianity.

✶5 There is no record of this in any of Japanese sources (apparently). This comes from the records of Jesuits, giving more of the background to the attack on Mitsunari in March 1599 (imo). Asano’s side tried to put pressure on Mitsunari’s side (and probably make him leave the office???), but with no success. However people on Asano’s side (Kiyomasa? Kuroda Nagamasa?) couldn’t stay quiet and started to appeal to important people, especially those who were on “the lord’s” (Hideyori’s) side. ETA: while the Jesuit record has it as Mitsunari vs Nagamasa, perhaps it’s actually better to be viewed as Mitsunari+Yukinaga vs Kiyomasa (I’ll think about it and change it accordingly, perhaps after reading more about Kiyomasa and Mitsunari after Korea)

✶6 as recorded by the Jesuits. As a side note, whenever Mitsunari and Yukinaga are mentioned in the same sentence, the friendship is always mentioned.

✶7 Mitsunari gave Hideyasu a sword that is now known as Ishida Masamune.

✶8 is there an official English title that’s used in historical books? I will go through Cambridge history later, though.

✶9 There’s no red seal for Maeda Gen’i’s signature, only black one, so only his name was used. He was sick during this whole period.

sources:

http://theology.catholic.ne.jp/?proc=japaneseslashshitsugi_oto

中井俊一郎「石田三成からの手紙」Sunrise publishing, 2015.

太田浩司「近江が住んだ知将　石田三成」Sunrise publishing, 2009.

三池純正「敗者から見た関ヶ原合戦」Yōsensha, 2007.

中野等「石田三成伝」2017.

http://ootanidatabase.web.fc2.com/nenpyou.html

白峰旬「豊臣公儀としての石田・毛利連合政権」史学論叢第 46 号（2016 年３月）

白峰旬「在京公家・僧侶などの日記における関ヶ原の戦い関係等の 　 記載について（その２）」史学論叢第 46 号（2016 年３月）

白峰旬「『十六・七世紀イエズス会日本報告集』における関ヶ 原の戦い関連の記載についての考察（その１）」

白峰旬「『十六・七世紀イエズス会日本報告集』における関ヶ原の戦い関連 の記載についての考察（その２）」

白峰旬「慶長５年６月～同年９月における徳川家康の軍事行 動について（その１）」

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Western Army’s generals after Sekigahara

I wanted to have a list, so here it is. Comes from Japanese Wikipedia. I only picked up important people.

(Toyotomi Hideyori - Osaka (2,220,000) - reduced to 657,400)

Ishida clan related

Ishida Mitsunari - Ōmi - Sawayama (194, 000) - main forces - executed (6th November) - his children were spared, but the Ishida clan disappeared from history (several of his vassals went to serve Tōdō Takatora)

Ishida Masazumi - Ōmi and a part of Kawachi (25, 000) - Sawayama - suicide (23rd October) - Mitsunari’s brother. His oldest son died with him, his younger son went to Kōya-san, but committed suicide at the beginning of 1601.

Ishida Masatsugu - Ōmi (30, 000) - Sawayama - suicide (23rd October) - Mitsunari’s father

Uda Yoritada - Yamato and a part of Kawachi (13, 000) - Sawayama - suicide (23rd October) - Mitsunari’s father-in-law. The clan disappeared from history.

Fukuhara Nagataka - Bungo (30, 000) - Ōgaki castle - suicide (7th November) - Mitsunari’s brother-in-law. The clan disappeared from history.

Bugyō, tairō, main guys

Mashita Nagamori - Yamato - Kōriyama (200, 000) - Osaka castle - renounced the world, entered Kōya-san, after that put under custody of Kōriki Kiyonaga. During Siege of Osaka refused Ieyasu to act as a mediator in peace negotiation. After he allowed his son to fight for Toyotomi in the Summer siege of Osaka, as a responsibility he was ordered to commit suicide.

Natsuka Masaie - Ōmi-Minakuchi (50, 000) - main forces - retreated to his castle (sent some forces to help Shimazu’s retreat) - suicide (8th November) - his head was shown together with Mitsunari, Ekei and Yukinaga at the Sanjō bridge in Kyoto. The clan disappeared from history.

Maeda Gen’i - he was basically neutral (only his name was used), so he was left alone

Ukita Hideie - Bizen - Okayama (574, 000) - vice-commander - main forces - escaped to Satsuma where he was hidden and protected by the Shimazu clan, in 1603 Shimazu Tadatsune told Ieyasu, Hideie was kept captive and in 1606 he was sent to exile to Hachijōjima (a small island), his descendants returned to the main land after Meiji Restoration

Uesugi Kagekatsu - Mutsu - Aizu (1, 200, 000) - fought Date and Mogami - lost all of his fiefs and was given Naoe Kanetsugu’s old fief in Yonezawa. Final kokudaka 300, 000

Ōtani Yoshitsugu - Echizen-Suruga (50, 000) - main forces - died in battle (21st October) - his 1st son Yoshiharu fought for Toyotomi as Osaka and died, his 2nd son died from illness after the defeat, 3rd son lived (the question is if they were really his children or if all of them were adopted). The clan disappeared from history.

Konishi Yukinaga - Higo (200, 000) - main forces - executed (6th November) - his eldest son was executed by Mōri Terumoto. The clan disappeared from history.

Mōri clan (played a big part in overthrowing the shogunate some 250 years later)

Mōri Terumoto - Aki - Hiroshima (1, 120, 000) - commander - Osaka - reduced to 298,000. Thanks to a land survey increased to 369,000.

Ankokuji Ekei - part of Iyo (60, 000) - main forces - executed (6th November) - to take responsibility for Mōri clan.

Kikkawa Hiroie - Izumo - Toda (142, 000) - main forces, communicated with the Eastern army - relocated to Suō - Iwakuni (30, 000). Later his kokudaka was increased to 60, 000 by Mōri clan’s head. Strangled relationship between the main branch and Kikkawa branch - bakufu treated Kikkawas as their own daimyo, Mōri clan refused to acknowledge it and treated them as their vassals. It was fixed in Bakumatsu.

Mōri Hidemoto - Suō Yamaguchi (200, 000) - main forces, leader of Mōri clan’s forces on the battlefield - given 50, 000 (60, 000?) koku from Terumoto

Mōri (Kobayakawa) Hidekane - Chikugo - Kurume (130, 000) - attacking Ōtsu castle - change of rank, changed his surname back to Mōri after Hideaki’s betrayal got known. Died in 1601 from sickness. Mōri Motonari’s 9th child.

Mōri Katsunobu - Buzen - Kokura (60, 000) - main forces - put under custody of Yamauchi Katsutoyo - his son fought for the Toyotomi at Osaka and after the fall of the castle the son committed suicide with Hideyori’s assistance There’s no relation between this guy and the Mōri clan from Aki. I’m just keeping it here to remind myself.

Shimazu clan (played a big part in overthrowing the shogunate some 250 years later)

Shimazu Yoshihiro - Satsuma Kagoshima (609, 000) - main forces - returned to Satsuma and planned to fight Ieyasu, in the end peace was made without losing anything

Shimazu Yoshihisa - Hyūga-Takagi (28, 000) - main forces - died in battle during retreat (21st October) 

Others

Sanada Masayuki - Shinano - Ueda (38, 000) - Ueda castle - confined to Kōya-san (Kudoyama)

Oda Hidenobu - Minō - Gifu (123, 000) - after the fall of Gifu castle escaped to Kōya-san, it took him a while to get permission because of his grandfather, Nobunaga, and even after he was allowed to become a monk, he faced persecution. Died in 1605 and Nobunaga’s first son’s line died out.

Satake Yoshinobu - Hitachi - Mito (545,800) - kinda not really participating, made an alliance with Uesugi at first, then just... did nothing - relocated to Dewa - Kubota (205, 800)

Hachisuka Iemasa - Awa Tokushima (173, 000) - son fought for the Eastern army, so he was left alone, despite sending his forces to help Western army

Tachibana Muneshige - Yanagawa (132, 000) - Ōtsu castle - lost his status as daimyō, but got 10, 000 koku in 1603, so his status was renewed

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Ijuin Clan

The Ijûin were descended from Shimazu Tadatoki. They served the Shimazu throughout the Sengoku Period although their reputation declined owing to scandals involving members of the family at the dawn of the Edo Period.

*Prominent People*

*Ijuin Tada'aki* (1520-1561)He served under Shimazu Tadayoshi and Shimazu Takahisa was essential in uniting Shimazu clan, and battles against Ito clan and Kimotsuki clan. At the siege of Iwatsurugi in 1554, it was recorded that Tada'aki had his troop use matchlock guns against enemies for the first time by the Shimazu army. For this and other contributions and services, he held the post of the top karō until 1556 and governed as the top official of the clan.

It is recorded that on 1561 while having a party with Kimotsuki Kanetsugu, Tada'aki offended Kanetsugu so well that humiliated Kanetsugu started a war that the Shimazu clan wanted all along.

*Ijuin Tadamune* (????-1599) Ijûin Tadamune was the son of Ijûin Tadaao and a Shimazu karô who served in many of Shimazu Yoshihisa's campaigns and battles, including the1578 battle of Mimigawa.He began as a musician, and was promoted to Elder (rôjû) in 1566. He fought for the Shimazu in the conquest of Higo province, and in the 1584 battle of Okitanawate.During Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Kyushu in1587, Tadamune and Shimazu Iehisa were the first inHyûga province to submit to Hideyoshi's authority. Tadamune ended up assisting in negotiations between Hideyoshi and the Shimazu. He impressed Hideyoshi and was granted territory of his own in Ôsumi. Already holding a position of privilege even among the Shimazu Elders, he was granted special position among Hideyoshi's vassals as well. Tadamune also developed a close relationship withIshida Mitsunari. In 1595, he worked under Mitsunari in administering Hideyoshi's land survey within Shimazu territory. Once this was completed, Tadamune was transferred from Koyama to an 80,000 koku fief at Miyakonojô. He then led over 2,000 men in Hideyoshi's second invasion of Korea(1597-98). However, following Hideyoshi's death, he was summoned on 1599  to Shimazu Tadatsune's mansion, where he was murdered.