was a Japanese samurai and
feudal lord of the late
Sengoku 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 ...
s. His father served as one of the ''
Go-Bugyō'' in the late
Azuchi–Momoyama period.
Asano Yoshinaga was born at Odani, in the Asai district of
Ōmi Province
was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō Circuit (subnational entity), circuit. Its nickname is . Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, ...
, in 1576, the eldest son of
Asano Nagamasa, the brother of
O-Ne,
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife. He married a daughter of
Ikeda Tsuneoki.
His first action was at the
Siege of Odawara, in 1590. In 1593, together with his father, he was granted Fuchu, in
Kai Province. Though the Asano family was to be sent to
Noto Province as a result of their implication in the alleged treason of
Toyotomi Hidetsugu, the good offices of
Maeda Toshiie kept them in Kai Province.
Yoshinaga achieved distinction together with his father in 1597, during the
Siege of Ulsan, when they held the fortress under the command of
Katō Kiyomasa
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Azuchi–Momoyama period, Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods. His court title was . His name as a child was ''Yashamaru'', and first name was ''Toranosuke''. He was one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi's Seven ...
.
Though the Asano family was secure following its service under
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 ...
at the
Battle of Sekigahara, it would be moved to
Wakayama Domain, in
Kii Province. The family would again be moved, to
Hiroshima Domain
The was a large domain that owned all of Aki Province and half of Bingo Province. It occupies most of current Hiroshima Prefecture. The domain office was located at Hiroshima Castle in Sato District, Aki Province (renamed Numata District in 1 ...
, in the early 17th century.
Yoshinaga's three-dimensional battle standard, a gold-plated basketlike object, was well known during the Korean campaign. His daughters, Hanahime married
Matsudaira Tadamasa of
Fukui Domain and Haruhime (Haruhime was his daughter with Ikeda Tsuneoki's daughter) married
Tokugawa Yoshinao of
Owari Domain.
References
*Berry, Mary Elizabeth. ''Hideyoshi''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.
*Turnbull, Stephen. ''The Samurai Sourcebook''. Sterling: New Edition, 2000.
*Turnbull, Stephen. ''Samurai Invasion''. London: Cassell & Co., 2002.
External links
Genealogy of the lords of Wakayama, including the Asano (in Japanese)
*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20090717142430/http://homepage1.nifty.com/SEISYO/busyo1.htm Biographies of various Azuchi-Momoyama generals, including Asano Yoshinaga
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Samurai
1576 births
1613 deaths
Daimyo
Asano clan
Deified Japanese men
People from Shiga Prefecture