Kuroda Yoshitaka: Difference between revisions

| battles = [[Siege of Inabayama]]<br>[[Chūgoku region|Chūgoku Campaign]]<br>[[Siege of Miki]]<br>[[Siege of Tottori]]<br>[[Siege of Takamatsu]]<br>[[Battle of Yamazaki]]<br>[[Battle of Shizugatake]]<br>[[Battle of Komaki-Nagakute]]<br>[[Invasion of Shikoku]]<br>[[Kyushu Campaign]]<br>[[Battle of Ishigakibaru]]<br>[[Siege of Yanagawa]]

Kuroda Yoshitaka was born in [[Himeji]] (姫路) on December 22, 1546, as Mankichi (万吉), the son of [[Kuroda Mototaka]]. TheIt Kurodais clanbelieved arethat believedthe to haveKuroda originated infrom [[Ōmi Province]]. Yoshitaka's grandfather [[Kuroda Shigetaka|Shigetaka]] brought the family to Himeji and tookresided up residence atin Gochaku Castle (御着城), east of [[Himeji Castle]].

Shigetaka served as a senior retainer of [[Kodera Masamoto]], the lord of Himeji, and was so highly praised that Shigetaka's son Mototaka was allowed to marry Masamoto's adopted daughter (Akashi Masakaze’s daughter) and to use the Kodera name. Yoshitaka became the head of the Kuroda family at the age of 21 when his father, Mototaka, retired.<ref>Miura, Akihiko. Kuroda Jhosui. Fukuoka: Nishi Nihon Jinbutsu shi, 1996. Print.</ref><ref name="rekishikaido; Kuroda Yoshitaka">{{cite web |author1=Watanabe Daimon |title=黒田官兵衛の主君は誰なのか？ |trans-title=Who was Kuroda Kanbei's superior? |url=https://rekishikaido.php.co.jp/detail/1802 |website=rekishikaido |publisher=PHPオンライン |pages=1-21–2 |access-date=11 June 2024 |language=Ja |date=2022}}</ref>

Before the outbreak of Sekigahara conflict between [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] with [[Ishida Mitsunari]], Yoshitaka and his son, [[Kuroda Nagamasa]], made contact with [[Ii Naomasa]], a Tokugawa general, and forming a pact of alliance. through the Kuroda clan, Naomasa successfully swayed the other military commanders to support the Tokugawa clan.{{sfn|Noda|2007}} It was recorded that Yoshitaka and his son, Nagamasa, bore grudge towards Mitsunari due to their personal conflict with him and alleged mismanagements during the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)]].<ref name="rekishikaido; 7generals korea">{{cite web |author1=Watanabe Daimon |title=「石田三成襲撃事件」で襲撃は起きていない? 画策した7人の武将、そして家康はどうした? |trans-title="Ishida Mitsunari Attack Incident" No attack occurred? What happened to the seven warlords who planned it, and Ieyasu?|url=https://rekishikaido.php.co.jp/detail/10229?p=1 |website=rekishikaido |publisher=PHPオンライン |pages=1-21–2 |access-date=11 June 2024 |language=Ja |date=2023}}</ref>

In 1600, Yoshitaka was seemingly on the Tokugawa side during the Sekigahara campaign, having clashed against [[Ōtomo Yoshimune]] at the [[Battle of Ishigakibaru]] and also, having participated at the [[Siege of Yanagawa]].{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} It was recorded that the legendary swordsman [[Miyamoto Musashi]] participated in Ishigakibaru battle under the command of Yoshitaka.<ref name="musashiTokugawasekigahara">{{cite web |author1=Watanabe Daimon |title=牢人・宮本武蔵の関ヶ原合戦事情…東軍西軍のどちらに属し、主君は存在したのか |trans-title=Prisoner Miyamoto Musashi's Battle of Sekigahara...Which side did he belong to, East or West, and did he have a master? |url=https://sengoku-his.com/238 |website=sengoku-his.com |access-date=26 May 2024 |language=Ja |date=2023 |quote=Yumekashi Harada, “The True Story of Miyamoto Musashi” (Ashi Shobo, 1984); Masahide Fukuda "Miyamoto Musashi's Summer Siege" ("Rekishi Kenkyu" No. 400, 1994); Masahide Fukuda, "Proof of Musashi's Sekigahara Eastern Army" (Miyamoto Musashi Research Paper Collection, Rekiken, 2003); Eiji Yoshikawa, “Miyamoto Musashi, 6 volumes” (Dainippon Yubenkai Kodansha, 1936-39)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=大阪經大論集, Issues 282-284 |date=2005 |publisher=大阪經濟大學 |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fzYSAQAAMAAJ |access-date=25 May 2024 |language=Ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Watanabe Daimon |title=宮本武蔵に関する史料は、なぜ極端に少ないのか。その理由を考える |url=https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/d328fe8083b6003c2dd086986e298724f1b0b6c5 |website=yahoo.co.jp/expert |publisher=渡邊大門 無断転載を禁じます。 © LY Corporation |access-date=2 June 2024 |language=Ja}}</ref>