, other name Miyoshi Yukiyasu (三好之康) or Miyoshi Jikkyu (三好実休), second son of Miyoshi Motonaga, 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 ...

, who served the

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 ...

. His other brothers were

Miyoshi Nagayoshi , or Miyoshi Choukei, the eldest son of Miyoshi Motonaga, was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' who ruled seven provinces in Kansai. He was considered the most powerful figure during the Sengoku period before the rise of Oda Nobunaga, as Nagayosh ...

(first child),

Atagi Fuyuyasu , third son of Miyoshi Motonaga, brothers of Miyoshi Nagayoshi, Miyoshi Yukiyasu and Sogō Kazunari, was a Japanese samurai who lived in the Sengoku period The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and soc ...

(third child), and

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 ...

(fourth child). His son was

Miyoshi Nagaharu Miyoshi may refer to: Places *Miyoshi, Aichi, a city in Aichi Prefecture *Miyoshi, Chiba, a former village in Chiba Prefecture *Miyoshi, Hiroshima, a city in Hiroshima Prefecture *Miyoshi, Saitama, a town in Saitama Prefecture *Miyoshi, Tokushima, ...

. He was also the castle lord in command of Shōzui Castle. Yoshitaka expelled Hosokawa Mochitaka and captured Shōzui Castle, which then became the main base of Miyoshi clan in

Shikoku is the smallest of the List of islands of Japan#Main islands, four main islands of Japan. It is long and between at its widest. It has a population of 3.8 million, the least populated of Japan's four main islands. It is south of Honshu ...

. He was shot and killed during Kumeta war in 1562. He was one of the most important vassals of Nagayoshi as the power of the Miyoshi clan declined sharply after his death.

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Samurai 1520s births 1562 deaths Miyoshi clan Japanese warriors killed in battle {{samurai-stub