Miyoshi Yoshikata
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, other name Miyoshi Yukiyasu (三好 之康), second son of Miyoshi Motonaga, was Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese samurai
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
of the Sengoku period
Sengoku period
The or Warring States period in Japanese history was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century. The name "Sengoku" was adopted by Japanese historians in reference...
, who served the Miyoshi clan
Miyoshi clan
The Miyoshi clan is a Japanese family descended from Emperor Seiwa and the Minamoto clan . They were a cadet branch of the Ogasawara clan and the Takeda clan....
. His other brothers were Miyoshi Nagayoshi (first child), Atagi Fuyuyasu
Atagi Fuyuyasu
, third son of Miyoshi Motonaga, brothers of Miyoshi Nagayoshi, Miyoshi Yukiyasu and Sogō Kazunari, was a Japanese samurai who lived in the Sengoku period. He was active in the Awaji region, and was also known as a poet. He had a son named Atagi Nobuyasu....
(third child), Sogō Kazumasa
Sogo Kazumasa
, other name Sogō Kazunari , fourth son of Miyoshi Motonaga, was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period who was a member of Miyoshi clan, daimyo of Kawachi province. Miyoshi Nagayoshi , Miyoshi Yukiyasu and Atagi Fuyuyasu are his elder brothers and Miyoshi Yoshitsugu is his son...
(fourth child) and his son was Miyoshi Nagaharu.