(1563 – October 21, 1616) was a Japanese ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and no ...

'' of the 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 ...

, who served as lord of the Tsuwano Domain. Originally called Ukita Akiie (宇喜多詮家) he first served his uncle Ukita Naoie and then his son

Ukita Hideie was the ''daimyō'' of Bizen and Mimasaka Provinces (modern Okayama Prefecture), and one of the council of Five Elders appointed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Son of Ukita Naoie, he married Gōhime, a daughter of Maeda Toshiie. Having fought a ...

. He took part in the attack against the Uesugi of Aizu, and later in the

Sekigahara campaign The Sekigahara Campaign was a series of battles in Japan fought between the Eastern Army aligned with Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Western Army loyal to Ishida Mitsunari, culminating in the decisive Battle of Sekigahara. The conflict was sparked by a ...

, he left Ukita's Western army and joined Tokugawa's eastern army. After the war, he was given lordship of the Tsuwano domain.

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 ...

also gave him a new name ''Sakazaki'' (坂崎).

References

*''This article has been compiled from corresponding material on the Japanese Wikipedia''.
Tsuwano domain genealogy
(in Japanese) Ukita clan 1563 births 1616 deaths Tozama daimyo People of the Muromachi period People of the Azuchi–Momoyama period People of the Edo period {{daimyo-stub