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(1586-1632) was a Japanese samurai of the early Edo period
Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
 who served as daimyo
Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
 of the Wakayama domain
Wakayama Domain

The was a Han or Japanese feudal domain in Kii Province , with income of 555,000 koku. The domain was also known as or . The heads of the domain were Kishu-Tokugawa clan, one of Gosanke....
, and was later transferred to the Hiroshima Domain
Hiroshima Domain

Hiroshima Domain was a han , or fief, of Edo period Japan. Based at Hiroshima castle in the city of Hiroshima, the domain encompassed Aki province and parts of neighboring Bingo province....
.

Born Asano Iwamatsu, he was the son of Asano Nagamasa
Asano Nagamasa

was the brother-in-law of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and one of his chief advisors. Asano also fought for Hideyoshi in a number of campaigns during the Sengoku period of the 16th century of Japan....
, who was a senior retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In 1594, Nagaakira was made a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and stipended at 3,000 koku. Following Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara  in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868....
 six years later at the Battle of Sekigahara
Battle of Sekigahara

The , popularly known as the , was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 which cleared the path to the Shogunate for Tokugawa Ieyasu. Though it would take three more years for Ieyasu to consolidate his position of power over the Toyotomi clan and the daimyo, Sekigahara is widely considered to be the unofficial beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate,...
, he was awarded with the 24,000 koku fief of Ashimori han.






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(1586-1632) was a Japanese samurai of the early Edo period
Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
 who served as daimyo
Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
 of the Wakayama domain
Wakayama Domain

The was a Han or Japanese feudal domain in Kii Province , with income of 555,000 koku. The domain was also known as or . The heads of the domain were Kishu-Tokugawa clan, one of Gosanke....
, and was later transferred to the Hiroshima Domain
Hiroshima Domain

Hiroshima Domain was a han , or fief, of Edo period Japan. Based at Hiroshima castle in the city of Hiroshima, the domain encompassed Aki province and parts of neighboring Bingo province....
.

Born Asano Iwamatsu, he was the son of Asano Nagamasa
Asano Nagamasa

was the brother-in-law of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and one of his chief advisors. Asano also fought for Hideyoshi in a number of campaigns during the Sengoku period of the 16th century of Japan....
, who was a senior retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In 1594, Nagaakira was made a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and stipended at 3,000 koku. Following Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara  in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868....
 six years later at the Battle of Sekigahara
Battle of Sekigahara

The , popularly known as the , was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 which cleared the path to the Shogunate for Tokugawa Ieyasu. Though it would take three more years for Ieyasu to consolidate his position of power over the Toyotomi clan and the daimyo, Sekigahara is widely considered to be the unofficial beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate,...
, he was awarded with the 24,000 koku fief of Ashimori han. As his brother Yukinaga
Asano Yukinaga

Japanese samurai and feudal lord of the late Sengoku and early Edo period. Served as one of the Go-Bugyo in the late Azuchi-Momoyama Period....
 died heirless in 1613, Nagaakira succeeded him, becoming daimyo of Wakayama han. At the siege of Osaka
Siege of Osaka

The was a series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages , and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the shogunate's establishment....
, he commanded a portion of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara  in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868....
's army. In the summer of 1615, Toyotomi Hideyori
Toyotomi Hideyori

Toyotomi Hideyori , 1593 - June 5, 1615, was the son and designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who first united all of Japan....
's Western Army moved to attack Asano's castle at Wakayama. Though most of Asano's forces were at Osaka, sieging Toyotomi's fortress, the remaining garrison outnumbered the Western warriors, and Asano led his men in sallying forth to meet the enemy in the Battle of Kashii
Battle of Kashii

The Battle of Kashii was the very first battle of the Summer Campaign of the 1615 Siege of Osaka. As the Shogun's Eastern Army prepared to renew the siege begun the previous winter, the Osaka castle garrison sallied forth, ambushing Tokugawa forces in a number of skirmishes and sieges....
.

Asano also fought in the Battle of Tennoji
Battle of Tennoji

The Battle of Tennojiwas fought in 1615 between the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the forces of Toyotomi Hideyori. Tokugawa was Siege of Osaka, and Hideyori had planned a counterattack....
, the decisive final battle in the siege of Osaka, where he commanded Tokugawa's rear guard. In 1619, he was granted the fief of Hiroshima, in Aki Province
Aki Province

or Geishu was a Provinces of Japan in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, comprising the western part of what is today Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan....
, which would come to be the home of the Asano family
Asano family

The was a noble samurai family in feudal Japan which controlled the han of Hiroshima Domain centered around Hiroshima Castle for much of the Tokugawa shogunate....
 for many generations.

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