Background
Yagyu Mitsuyoshi (born "Shichiro") was born in 1607 in Japan. He grew up in his family's ancestral lands, Yagyu no Sato, now in Nara. He was the son of Yagyu Tajima no Kami Munenori, master swordsman of the Tokugawa shoguns.
柳生 三厳
Yagyu Mitsuyoshi (born "Shichiro") was born in 1607 in Japan. He grew up in his family's ancestral lands, Yagyu no Sato, now in Nara. He was the son of Yagyu Tajima no Kami Munenori, master swordsman of the Tokugawa shoguns.
Yagyu Mitsuyoshi served Iemitsu Tokugawa as a spy to report on the activities of the lords of Kyushu. Later founded a training institute at Masakizaka, Iga Province (Mie Prefecture), and is said to have had 10,000 pupils. His exploits have been dramatized in a Kodan (historical narrative) titled Yagyu Tabi Nikki (A Travel Diary of Yagyu).
Physical Characteristics: Yagyu Mitsuyoshi became blind of one eye when his father threw a stone at him to see how good he was as a fencer.
Yagyu Munenori was a Japanese swordsman, founder of the Edo branch of Yagyu Shinkage-ryū, which he learned from his father Yagyu "Sekishusai" Muneyoshi.
