, adopted son of Nagayoshi, was a

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of the

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who was practically the last head of

Miyoshi clan is a Japanese family descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and the Minamoto clan (Seiwa-Genji). They are a cadet branch of the Ogasawara clan and the Takeda clan. At the beginning of the 14th century AD, settled in Shikoku. His eighth ge ...

, ''

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'' of

Kawachi Province was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan in the eastern part of modern Osaka Prefecture. It originally held the southwestern area that was split off into Izumi Province. It was also known as . Geography The area was radically different in th ...

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. His wife was

Ashikaga Yoshiaki "Ashikaga Yoshiaki" in '' The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 625. was the 15th and final ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573 when he ...

's sister. Born to

Sogō Kazumasa , other name Sogō Kazunari (十河和也), fourth son of Miyoshi Motonaga, was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period who was a member of Miyoshi clan, ''daimyō'' of Kawachi Province. Miyoshi Nagayoshi (eldest), Miyoshi Yukiyasu (second) and ...

in 1549, younger brother of Miyoshi Nagayoshi, he was initially known as Sogō Shigemasa (). After 1561 when his father died, he was reared by Nagayoshi. When Nagayoshi's eldest son Yoshioki died in 1563, he was adopted as a son and changed his

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to ''Miyoshi''. The following year when Nagayoshi died, Yoshitsugu succeeded him as head of the clan.

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Samurai Daimyo Miyoshi clan 1549 births 1573 deaths {{Daimyo-stub