Satomi Yoshiyasu

Japanese: 里見義康 - さとみ・よしやす

Year of death: November 16, 1603 (December 18, 1603)
Year of birth: Tensho 1 (1573)
A military commander in the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods. The eldest son of Yoshiyori. Commonly known as Taro and called Sabatou, he was later appointed as a fourth-rank chamberlain. He inherited the family headship from the end of 1586 while his father Yoshiyori was still alive, and worked hard to maintain the power of the daimyo Satomi clan during the turbulent transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period. After the Siege of Odawara in 1588, Toyotomi Hideyoshi confiscated Kazusa Province, and he was placed as a yoriki daimyo under Tokugawa Ieyasu. After that, he participated in various projects as a member of the Toyotomi government, such as the dispatch of troops to Korea and the construction of temples and shrines. He also repaired Tateyama Castle to make it his main castle, worked on the construction of the castle town, and implemented a comprehensive division of fiefs among his vassals based on the Taiko land survey, making repeated efforts to transform into a daimyo of the Early Modern Period. He sided with the Tokugawa in the Battle of Sekigahara, and after the war he was given an additional 30,000 koku of land in the Kashima domain in Hitachi as a reward.

(Tsuneaki Takikawa)

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Japanese:

没年：慶長8.11.16(1603.12.18)
生年：天正1(1573)
安土桃山・江戸時代初期の武将。義頼の長子。通称太郎,左馬頭を称し,のち四位侍従に任ぜられた。父義頼存命中の天正14(1586)年末ごろから家督を継承し,中世から近世への移行期という激動の時にあって大名里見氏の権勢維持に腐心する。同18年の小田原攻めののち豊臣秀吉により上総国を没収され,徳川家康の与力大名に位置付けられた。以後朝鮮出兵や寺社造営など,豊臣政権の一員として諸事業に参加。一方,自身も館山城を修築して本城とし,城下町の建設にも取り組んだほか,太閤検地に基づいて家臣に全面的知行割りを実施するなど,近世大名への脱皮に向けて努力を重ねた。関ケ原の戦では徳川方にくみし,戦後その恩賞として常陸鹿島領3万石を加増された。

(滝川恒昭)

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