Background
Yukinaga Konishi was born in 1555. He was the son of Konishi Ryusa a wealthy merchant of the port city of Sakai in the province of Izumi.
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Yukinaga Konishi was born in 1555. He was the son of Konishi Ryusa a wealthy merchant of the port city of Sakai in the province of Izumi.
He first served Ukita Naoie, a military leader under the powerful Mori family of western Japan, but later became a vassal of Hideyoshi, distinguishing himself at the battle of Yainazaki, which took place after the assassination of Oda Nobunaga in 1582, at the battle of Shizugatake the following year, and in other encounters. He thus played an important part in assisting Hideyoshi to gain control of the entire country and became one of his most trusted retainers.
In 1600 he joined Ishida Mitsunari and the others who opposed Tokugawa Ieyasu at the battle of Sekigahara but was defeated and, on orders from Ieyasu, was taken to Kyoto and put to death at the Rokujogawara execution ground.
In 1584 he was baptized a Christian and took the name Augustine, being referred to by the European missionaries of the time as Don Augustin.