Kuroda Yoshitaka (黒田孝高, December 22, 1546-1604) was a Japanese daimyo of the late Sengoku through early Edo periods. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies The ( were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings The, also referred to as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代 Tokugawa-jidai) is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1868 Renowned as a man of great ambition, he was a chief strategist under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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Early Life
Kuroda Yoshitaka was born in Himeji on December 22, 1546, the son of Kuroda Mototaka. The Kuroda clan are believed to have originated in Ōmi Province. For other meanings of Omi see Omi (disambiguation. is an old province of Japan which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was Yoshitaka's grandfather Shigetaka who brought the family to Himeji, and took up residence at Otsuki Castle (御着城), east of Himeji Castle. Shigetaka served as a senior retainer of Kodera Masamoto, the lord of Himeji, and was so highly praised that Shigetaka's son Mototaka was allowed to marry Masamoto's adopted daughter, and to use the Kodera name.
Maturity and Career
Yoshitaka succeeded to the family headship in 1567. A few years later, with Toyotomi Hideyoshi spearheading the Oda clan's advance into the Chugoku region, he pledged loyalty to the Oda. Yoshitaka, together with the sickly Takenaka Hanbei, served as Hideyoshi's strategists, and assisted in the campaign against the Mōri clan. who was also known as Hanbei (半兵衛 was a Japanese Samurai during the Sengoku period of the 16th century
Shortly before 1587, Yoshitaka was ordered by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to lead an attack into Kyushu. Along with him was the famous Christian Daimyo Takayama Ukon. Dom Justo Takayama ( 1552 - February 4, 1615) was a Kirishitan Daimyo and the Japanese Samurai who followed After seeing the thriving Christian population of Kyushu and under Ukon's influence, Yoshitaka was baptized with the name ドン・シメオン (Don Simeao). After a visit to the Jesuit controlled port of Nagasaki during that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi became fearful of the powerful influence that Jesuits and the Christian Daimyos wielded and in 1587 made his famous Edict that expelled foreign missionaries and ordered all the samurai under his rule to abandon their faith. While Takayama Ukon resisted the Edict and lost his fief, Yoshitaka shrewdly gave up his new religion and adopted a monk's habit calling himself (如水)Josui. His most prominent act during his short time as a christian was his arrangement to save a Jesuit mission from Bungo when the Christian daimyo of that province Otomo Sorin was under attack from the Shimazu Clan. also known as Fujiwara no Yoshishige (藤原 義鎮 and Ōtomo Yoshishige (大友 義鎮 was a Japanese feudal lord ( Daimyo) of the Ōtomo clan
Later Life
Yoshitaka made an attempt to conquer the region of Kyūshū during the Battle of Sekigahara, but this ended up in failure. or Kyushu is the third-largest Island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Background and pretext Even though Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan and consolidated his power following the Siege of Odawara in 1590 his ill-fated After his son Nagamasa succeeded him, Yoshitaka died in 1604.
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Further Reading
- Andō Hideo 安藤英男. Shiden Kuroda Josui 史伝黒田如水. Tokyo: Nichibō Shuppansha, 1975.
- Harada Tanemasa 原田種眞. Kuroda Josui 黒田如水. Tokyo: Benseisha 勉誠社, 1996.
- Kaneko Kentarō 金子堅太郎. Kuroda Josui den 黒田如水伝. Tokyo: Bunken Shuppan 文献出版, 1976.
- Motoyama Kazuki 本山一城. Jitsuroku Takenaka Hanbei to Kuroda Kanbei 実錄竹中半兵衛と黒田官兵衛. Tokyo: Murata Shoten 村田書店, 1988.
- Yoshikawa, Eiji. was a Japanese Historical novelist probably one of the best and most famous authors in the genre (1989) Yoshikawa Eiji Rekishi Jidai Bunko (Eiji Yoshikawa's Historical Fiction), Vol. 44: Kuroda Yoshitaka (黒田如水). Tokyo: Kodansha. 10-ISBN 4-0619-6577-8; 13-ISBN 978-4-0619-6577-5
See also
- Yoshikawa Eiji, historical fiction
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