Kinoshita Iesada

Japanese: 木下家定 - きのした・いえさだ

Year of death: August 26, 1608 (October 4, 1608)
Year of birth: Tenbun 12 (1543)
A military commander in the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Son of Sugihara Sadatsugu. Older brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife Nene (Kita no Mandokoro, later Kodaiin). Commonly known as Magobei and Higo no Kami. His ancestors were local lords of Harima Province with the surname Taira, who are said to have moved to Asahi Village in Owari Province during the Muromachi period. Iesada also initially inherited the Sugihara family, but later changed his surname to Kinoshita. Through his younger sister Nene's connections, he became a direct vassal of Hideyoshi, and in September 1587, he was awarded 11,341 koku in Harima, and was subsequently appointed Junior Fifth Rank, Higo no Kami, and given the Hashiba clan and Toyotomi surname. He was further promoted to Junior Third Rank and Chunagon. In August 1595, his stipend was increased to 25,000 koku, and he became the lord of Himeji Castle and was also appointed caretaker of Osaka Castle. During the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, he escaped danger because he was assigned to guard Kodaiin, and in the same year, Tokugawa Ieyasu transferred him to the two counties of Kayo and Kamiboso in Bitchu Province with a fief of 25,000 koku, and made him lord of Ashimori Castle. In July of the 9th year of the same year, he was promoted to the second rank and Hoin, and took the name Joei, and he died in Kyoto in the 13th year of the same year. His estates were temporarily confiscated and entrusted to Asano Nagaakira, but after the Summer Siege of Osaka in 1615, his second son Toshifusa was allowed to inherit the 25,000 koku lordship of Ashimori Castle. His eldest son, Katsutoshi, had his 62,000 koku stipend from Obama in Wakasa confiscated after the Battle of Sekigahara and became a ronin, but he was famous as a poet named Nagashoshi. His third son, Nobutoshi, became lord of Hiji Domain in Bungo, and his fifth son, Hideaki, was adopted into the Kobayakawa family. <References> "Fukugen" (Additional Notes on the Genealogy of the Taira Family Sugihara Clan)

(Kenichi Niki)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

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没年：慶長13.8.26(1608.10.4)
生年：天文12(1543)
安土桃山時代の武将。杉原定利の子。豊臣秀吉の正室ねね(北政所,のちの高台院)の実兄。通称は孫兵衛,肥後守。先祖は平姓を称する播磨国の土豪で,室町時代に尾張国朝日村に移住したという。家定も初め杉原家を継いだが,のちに名字を木下と改めた。妹ねねの縁により秀吉の直臣となり,天正15(1587)年9月,播磨に1万1341石を与えられ,次いで従五位下,肥後守に叙任,羽柴氏・豊臣姓を授けられた。さらに従三位,中納言に昇進。文禄4(1595)年8月,2万5000石に加増され,姫路城主となり,大坂城の留守居にも任ぜられた。慶長5(1600)年の関ケ原の戦では,高台院警護の任にあったため難を免れ,同年徳川家康により備中国賀陽・上房両郡2万5000石に移封,足守城主となった。そして同9年7月,二位,法印に叙せられ浄英と号し,同13年京都で死去した。遺領は一時没収されて浅野長晟に預けられたが,元和1(1615)年の大坂夏の陣後,次男利房が足守城主2万5000石の相続を許された。なお長男の勝俊は関ケ原の戦後若狭小浜6万2000石を没収されて浪人となるが,歌人長嘯子として有名。3男延俊は豊後日出藩主,5男秀秋は小早川家の養子となった。<参考文献>『平姓杉原氏御系図附言』

(二木謙一)

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