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(1578-1668) was a Japanese samurai
Samurai

is the term for the military nobility of Pre-industrial society Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character ? 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 Azuchi-Momoyama period
Azuchi-Momoyama period

The came at the end of the Sengoku period in Japan, when the political unification that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate took place....
 through 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 the Shimazu clan of Satsuma
Satsuma Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan that is now the western half of Kagoshima prefecture on the island of Kyushu. Its abbreviation is Sasshu ....
. He was the eldest son of Yamada Arinobu
Yamada Arinobu

Yamada Arinobu was a retainer of the Shimazu clan during the Edo period.He served under Shimazu Takahisa and then under Shimazu Yoshihisa. On 1568, he became a karo for his services....
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On 1587 after his father surrendered to Toyotomi Hidenaga
Toyotomi Hidenaga

was a half-brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the most powerful warlords of Japan's Sengoku period. After participating in and helping Hideyoshi win the battle at Kii Province, Hidenaga oversaw the construction of Wakayama Castle in 1585, appointing Todo Takatora to the chief engineer....
 at Taka Castle, he was given as a hostage to Hidenaga as a show of obedience. He has since fought as a retainer under the Shimazu clan at Seven-Year War
Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea

Two Japanese invasions of Korea and subsequent battles on the Korean peninsula took place from 1592 to 1598. Toyotomi Hideyoshi led the newly unified Japan into the first invasion with the professed goal of conquering Korea, the Jurchens, Ming Dynasty China, and India....
, 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,...
 and killed Ijuin Tadazane to put down a potential rebellion. He was counted as a most important retainer and became a Karo
KARO

KARO is a radio station city of license to serve Nyssa, Oregon, USA. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation.It broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music format as part of the Air 1 network....
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(1578-1668) was a Japanese samurai
Samurai

is the term for the military nobility of Pre-industrial society Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character ? 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 Azuchi-Momoyama period
Azuchi-Momoyama period

The came at the end of the Sengoku period in Japan, when the political unification that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate took place....
 through 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 the Shimazu clan of Satsuma
Satsuma Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan that is now the western half of Kagoshima prefecture on the island of Kyushu. Its abbreviation is Sasshu ....
. He was the eldest son of Yamada Arinobu
Yamada Arinobu

Yamada Arinobu was a retainer of the Shimazu clan during the Edo period.He served under Shimazu Takahisa and then under Shimazu Yoshihisa. On 1568, he became a karo for his services....
.

On 1587 after his father surrendered to Toyotomi Hidenaga
Toyotomi Hidenaga

was a half-brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the most powerful warlords of Japan's Sengoku period. After participating in and helping Hideyoshi win the battle at Kii Province, Hidenaga oversaw the construction of Wakayama Castle in 1585, appointing Todo Takatora to the chief engineer....
 at Taka Castle, he was given as a hostage to Hidenaga as a show of obedience. He has since fought as a retainer under the Shimazu clan at Seven-Year War
Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea

Two Japanese invasions of Korea and subsequent battles on the Korean peninsula took place from 1592 to 1598. Toyotomi Hideyoshi led the newly unified Japan into the first invasion with the professed goal of conquering Korea, the Jurchens, Ming Dynasty China, and India....
, 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,...
 and killed Ijuin Tadazane to put down a potential rebellion. He was counted as a most important retainer and became a Karo
KARO

KARO is a radio station city of license to serve Nyssa, Oregon, USA. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation.It broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music format as part of the Air 1 network....
. During peacetime of Edo period, he took up teaching of retainers as well as developing industries.

Yamada served in the shogunate army at the Shimabara Rebellion
Shimabara Rebellion

The was an rebellion largely involving Japanese peasants, most of them Christianity, in 1637?1638 during the Edo period. It was also one of only a handful of instances of serious unrest during the relatively peaceful period of the Tokugawa shogunate's rule....