Mizuno Katsushige

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In this Japanese name, the family name is "Mizuno".

Mizuno Katsushige (水野 勝成) (1564–1651) was a Japanese samurai daimyo of the late Sengoku Period and early Edo period.[1]

Daimyo

The son of Mizuno Tadashige, he had in his younger years served Sasa Narimasa, for whom he fought in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Kyushu Campaign in 1587, Kato Kiyomasa, Konishi Yukinaga.[citation needed]

He was a leader fighting with the Tokugawa forces (the eastern army) at the Siege of Osaka.[2]

In 1615, the shogunate moved his fief from Kariya Domain in Mikawa Province to Koriyama Domain in Yamato Province (60,000 koku); then in 1619, his fief was transferred to Fukuyama Domain in Bingo Province (100,000 koku).[1]

In 1638, he led forces in the shogunate army which put down the Shimabara Rebellion in Kyushu.[3]

The line of his direct descendants was ended in 1698.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Mizuno" at Nobiliare du Japon, pp. 35-36; retrieved 2013-5-25.
  2. ↑ Turnbull, Stephen. (2012). Osaka 1615: The last battle of the samurai, p. 79.
  3. ↑ Takekosh, Yosaburo. (2005). The economic aspects of the history of the civilization of Japan, Vol. 2, P. 96.


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