Maeba Yoshitsugu Explained

was a retainer beneath the clan of Asakura throughout the late Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. He was also known as Katsurada Nagatoshi (桂田 長俊).[1] He held the fortress of Kanegasaki in Siege of Kanegasaki (1570) against Oda Nobunaga.

After the defeat of the Asakura, Maeba defected to Nobunaga. He was killed in a revolt supported by Toda Nagashige in 1574.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ōta, Gyūichi . The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga . 2011-06-22 . BRILL . 978-90-04-20162-0 . en.
  2. Book: Lamers, Jeroen P. . Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered . 2021-09-20 . BRILL . 978-90-04-28925-3 . en.

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