Kuwana Yoshinari
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Kuwana Yoshinari (桑名吉成? 1551 - June 2, 1615) was a senior retainer under the Chōsokabe clan during the latter years of the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. He was also known as Kuwana Kazutaka (桑名一孝). Serving under Chōsokabe Motochika for many years, Yoshinari was considered as one of his personal retainers, being allowed privileges unbefitting of lesser vassals. And by the time at which Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Chōsokabe's lands of Shikoku in 1585, Yoshinari was personally sent as messenger to the head camp of Hideyoshi, where he initially informed the latter of his lord's intentions for negotiation. Following by supporting Hideyoshi during the Battle of Hetsugigawa of 1586, Yoshinari additionally assisted in the Kyushu Campaign the next year, regarded as a retainer of ability. Conflicting within the 1st Korean Campaign that followed the former events, Yoshinari conjectively fought under the 'eastern' forces of Ishida Mitsunari during the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, but nonetheless fled from his original service, abandoned his head castle, and joined the ranks as a retainer under the Toda. 14 years following this incident, Yoshinari accompanied his former lord--Motochika--in the latter's assistance to protect Osaka Castle, also fighting in the two additional conflicts that respectively followed this incident. However, Yoshinari was cut down during the Battle of Yao in 1615, regarded by the Chōsokabe and the Toyotomi alike as a man with great conviction.
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- Kuwana Kazutaka - SamuraiWiki. (Samurai Archives) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
