was a Japanese

samurai The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...

of the

Sengoku period The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...

and early

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)
"Amano Yasukage"
in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 26. Who served the

Tokugawa clan The is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 during the Edo period. It was formerly a powerful ''daimyō'' family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of ...

. He served as one of Ieyasu's "three magistrates" (san-bugyō).

Biography

Yasukage was born as the son of Amano Kagetaka. Yasukage worked from a young age as a servant close to

Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; 31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616) was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Gr ...

, accompanying Ieyasu even when he became a hostage. Yasukage supported Ieyasu at Battle of Azukizaka (1564) in conflict with monks from the

Ikkō-ikki were armed military leagues that formed in several regions of Japan in the 15th-16th centuries, composed entirely of members of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism. In the early phases, these ''ikki'' leagues opposed the rule of local Shugo, go ...

religious band in Mikawa. In 1565, he was named one of Mikawa's San-bugyô, or Three Commissioners (along with

Honda Shigetsugu (1529 – August 9, 1596), also known as , was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through Azuchi-Momoyama Period, who served the Tokugawa clan. He served as one of Ieyasu's "three magistrates" (san-bugyō). Biography He was known as Hac ...

and Koriki Kiyonaga). Yasukage was known for his patience, Shigetsugu for his fortitude, and Kiyonaga for his leniency. In 1573, he assisted Okubo Tadayo in a well-known night raid on the Takeda army following the

Battle of Mikatagahara The took place during the Sengoku period of Japan between Takeda Shingen and Tokugawa Ieyasu in Hamamatsu, Mikatagahara, Tōtōmi Province on 25 January 1573. Shingen attacked Ieyasu at the plain of Mikatagahara north of Hamamatsu during hi ...

. In 1586, Yasukage was assigned to lead command of the

ninja A , or was a spy and infiltrator in pre-modern Japan. The functions of a ninja included siege and infiltration, ambush, reconnaissance, espionage, deception, and later bodyguarding.Kawakami, pp. 21–22 Antecedents may have existed as ear ...

from

Koga Domain alt=, Site of Koga Castle, administrative headquarters of Koga Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It is located in Shimōsa Province, Honshū. The domain was centered at Koga Castle, located in what ...

. After the

Battle of Sekigahara The Battle of Sekigahara (Shinjitai: ; Kyūjitai: , Hepburn romanization: ''Sekigahara no Tatakai'') was an important battle in Japan which occurred on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month) in what is now Gifu Prefecture, ...

, from 1600–1611, he was the head of Kōkokuji Castle (10,000 ''

koku The is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. One koku is equivalent to 10 or approximately , or about of rice. It converts, in turn, to 100 shō and 1,000 gō. One ''gō'' is the traditional volume of a single serving of rice (before co ...

'') in

Suruga Province was an Provinces of Japan, old province in the area that is today the central part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Suruga bordered on Izu Province, Izu, Kai Province, Kai, Sagami Province, Sagami, Shinano Province, Shinano, and Tōtōmi Province, Tōtōm ...

. Yasukage lived in seclusion at Sainenji Temple in Odawara, Sagami Province, and died there. He died on February 24, 1613, at the age of 77. references from: * Masuo Sueemoto " Tokugawa clan in the Warring States period" New person traffic company, October 1998 * Masuo Suemoto edited "The Encyclopedia of Tokugawa Ieyasu" Tokyo -do publishing, January 2015 * "Kansei Choshu Shokafu Vol. 5" National Books, January 1923 * Arai Shiraishi "New Han-kanfu Volume 5" People's traffic company, January 1968

References

Samurai 1537 births 1613 deaths Fudai daimyo {{Daimyo-stub