yoshizumi's

Updated: May 6, 2025

Takanobu sent an army against Yoshizumi, but the Satsuma baron despatched Shimazu Masahisa to Yoshizumi's aid, and a sanguinary engagement at Shimabara in 1585 resulted in the rout of Takanobu's forces and his own death.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era