Sakai Kyūzō (坂井久蔵,1555–1570) was a retainer of

Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. He was the and regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. He is sometimes referred as the "Demon Daimyō" and "Demo ...

and son of

Sakai Masahisa was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku Period, who most notably served the Oda clan. Biography Sakai was born in Mino Province, and first served the Saitō clan. After the fall of the Saitō, he was taken on as a retainer by Oda Nobunaga. ...

. He fought his first battle at age thirteen, and then fought another battle at the

Battle of Anegawa The Sengoku period (30 July 1570) occurred near Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province, Japan, between the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, against the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans. It is notable as the first battle t ...

(1570). In that battle, he was killed by gunfire. He is one of the

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 ...

depicted in "Tales of Heroes of the Chronicles of the Great Peace", a series of woodblock prints by

Utagawa Kuniyoshi Utagawa Kuniyoshi (, ; 1 January 1798 – 14 April 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric ''et al'' (2005). "Kuniyoshi" in He was a member of the Utaga ...

References

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861) - Taiheiki Eiyuden

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* Samurai People of the Azuchi–Momoyama period Year of birth unknown 1570 deaths 1555 births {{Samurai-stub