Murakoshi Naoyoshi
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Murakoshi Naoyoshi (村越直吉? 1562 - 1614) was a senior retainer under the Tokugawa throughout the latter Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. Serving under his respective lord--Tokugawa Ieyasu--for many decades, Naoyoshi was regarded by the latter as a man of great trustworthiness, and was thus considered among the Tokugawa as a senior retainer and advisor. During a time of the year--conjectively after the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute in 1584--Toyotomi Hideyoshi was said to have thought quite highly of Naoyoshi by means of his prowess and leadership on the battlefield, initially inviting the latter into service beneath the flag of Toyotomi. However, Naoyoshi, being a man of both conviction and loyalty, expressed unhestitated refusal to this proposal, continuing his mutual service beneath the Tokugawa, and taking a prime seat of notability by the 1600 Campaign of Sekigahara. Before this campaign, Naoyoshi was specifically ordered by Ieyasu to arrive before the Kiyosu Castle, at which he would alert the pro-Tokugawa lords of the Tokugawa's movement and their initial actions that should be taken in mutual response to this movement. Following the end of this campaign and Ieyasu's rulership over all of Japan, Naoyoshi was generously rewarded with an unknown level of fief, regardlessly taking up his own residence by the Edo period and enforcing the new government at which his master had created. Murakoshi died in 1614.
