Mitsunari Ishida

1559 (age 41)

Japan

In 1585, when Hideyoshi was made kampaku, he was given court rank and assigned to an office that allowed him to take part in the most secret and vital business of the state. He participated in Hideyoshi’s campaigns against Korea in the Bunroku and Keicho eras, and at the time of the peace negotiations he escorted the Ming envoy to the port of Nagoya in Kyushu and there worked out the seven conditions upon which Japan was willing to end the war. services he was in 1595 made lord of the fief of Sawayama in the province of Omi, where he demonstrated his ability as a civil administrator. In 1598 he was chosen by Hideyoshi to be one of the five bugyo (magistrates) in charge of government affairs. After Hideyoshi’s death he opposed the ambitions of Tokugawa Ieyasu and, joining with Ucsugi Kagekatsu of Aizu and a number of other daimyo who were indebted to Hideyoshi and loyal to his memory, he called out his troops in 1600, but in the ninth month of the same year he and the others of his group were defeated by Ieyasu and his allies at the battle of Sekigahara. He was captured on Mt. Ibuki and taken to Kyoto, where, along with Konishi Yukinaga and Ankokuji Ekei, he was beheaded at the Rokujogawara execution ground.

Mitsunari Ishida

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石田三成

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Background

Mitsunari Ishida was born in 1559 in Japan.

Career

In 1585, when Hideyoshi was made kampaku, he was given court rank and assigned to an office that allowed him to take part in the most secret and vital business of the state. He participated in Hideyoshi’s campaigns against Korea in the Bunroku and Keicho eras, and at the time of the peace negotiations he escorted the Ming envoy to the port of Nagoya in Kyushu and there worked out the seven conditions upon which Japan was willing to end the war. services he was in 1595 made lord of the fief of Sawayama in the province of Omi, where he demonstrated his ability as a civil administrator.

In 1598 he was chosen by Hideyoshi to be one of the five bugyo (magistrates) in charge of government affairs. After Hideyoshi’s death he opposed the ambitions of Tokugawa Ieyasu and, joining with Ucsugi Kagekatsu of Aizu and a number of other daimyo who were indebted to Hideyoshi and loyal to his memory, he called out his troops in 1600, but in the ninth month of the same year he and the others of his group were defeated by Ieyasu and his allies at the battle of Sekigahara.

He was captured on Mt. Ibuki and taken to Kyoto, where, along with Konishi Yukinaga and Ankokuji Ekei, he was beheaded at the Rokujogawara execution ground.

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