Hongo Tokihisa

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Hongō Tokihisa (北郷時久, Hongō Tokihisa^?) (1530-1596) was a retainer beneath the clan of Shimazu throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Within the year of 1573, Tokihisa had defeated an attack led by the Shimotsuki clan; in 1578 he would suppress a rebel coalition of former Ito retainers, both incidents serving to advance his credibility beneath the Shimazu flag. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi had invaded the lands of Kyūshū in 1587 and subsequently forced the Shimazu into surrender by that same year, Tokihisa acted as Hideyoshi's hostage, forthwith installed at Miyanojo castle of Satsuma Province in consideration to his cooperation.