Asano Yoshinaga

A military commander in the Momoyama and early Edo periods. His childhood name was Nagamitsu, and he was called Sakyo no Daiyu (Left Capital Lord), and later Kiinokami (Lord of the Province of Kii). He served Toyotomi Hideyoshi together with his father Nagamasa, and participated in the siege of Odawara in 1589 (Tensho 17). He traveled to Korea several times when Hideyoshi dispatched troops to Korea, and in 1597 (Keicho 2) he was surrounded by a large Ming army during the siege of Ulsan Castle, and fought a hard battle. He returned to Japan after Hideyoshi's death in 1598. During this time, in 1593 (Bunroku 2), he and his father were given the province of Kai (Yamanashi Prefecture), and in 1595, he was temporarily exiled to Noto (Ishikawa Prefecture) due to slander by Ishida Mitsunari. In the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 (Keicho 5), he attacked Gifu Castle as the vanguard of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and in recognition of his achievements, Ieyasu awarded him 376,000 koku of land in Kii Province (Wakayama Prefecture). He died in Wakayama on August 25, 1600, but as he had no children, his younger brother Nagaakira inherited the fief. In 1620 (Genwa 6), he was transferred to Hiroshima in Aki, and the fief was passed down from generation to generation until the abolition of the feudal domains and the establishment of prefectures.

[Eiichi Kato]

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桃山時代・江戸初期の武将。幼名長満、左京大夫(さきょうのだゆう)のち紀伊守(きいのかみ)を称す。父長政(ながまさ)とともに豊臣(とよとみ)秀吉に仕え、1589年（天正17）の小田原攻めに従軍、秀吉の朝鮮出兵には再三朝鮮に渡り、1597年（慶長2）の蔚山(うるさん)城攻防には明(みん)の大軍に包囲され苦戦した。1598年秀吉の死により帰国した。この間、1593年（文禄2）に父とともに甲斐(かい)（山梨県）一国を与えられ、1595年石田三成(みつなり)の讒言(ざんげん)で一時能登(のと)（石川県）に流された。1600年（慶長5）関ヶ原の戦いには徳川家康の先鋒(せんぽう)として岐阜城を攻め、功により家康から紀伊国（和歌山県）37万6000余石を与えられた。慶長(けいちょう)18年8月25日和歌山で没したが、子がないため弟長晟(ながあきら)が封を襲(つ)いだ。1620年（元和6）安芸(あき)広島に転封され、以後相伝して廃藩置県に至る。

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