Mizuno Katsushige

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.

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.