Home - Back

Yi Naomasa

- [Previous Topic] [Next Topic]
#998 [2002-07-26 17:36:15]

Yi Naomasa

by squrpio_prince

Hey,

In a video game of mine and throughout a couple of books I have
read and seen Naomasa. He was a great daimyo and lead the "Red
Devils". What happened to him? There is nothing in the archives about
him even though he was a great samurai. Any thoughts?


Ryan

[Next #999]

#999 [2002-07-26 18:27:36]

Re: Yi Naomasa

by kitsuno

He's there, you just have to know where to look ;)

http://www.samurai-archives.com/famousgenerals.html (Tokugawa General)

http://www.samurai-archives.com/registry.html (Look under "I")

I know, I have to put a search function in there...

Here is some info:

Naomasa was born in Hôda village in the Inasa district of Tôtômi province,=
the only son of Ii Naochika and the daughter of Okuyama Chikatomo; he enter=
ed the service of Tokuagwa Ieyasu around 1578, and quickly distiguished hims=
elf as a brave fighter; he commanded 3,000 men at the Battle of Nagakute and=
did great damage to the ikeda troops he faced with gunnery fire; following =
the Tokugawa transfer to the Kanto in 1590, Naomasa was given Minowa Castle =
in Kôzuke province, worth 12.000 koku; at the start of the Sekigahara Campai=
gn, he participated in the attack on Gifu Castle and at the actual Battle of=
Sekigahara commanded 3,600 men; at Sekigahara he acted as an escort to Ieya=
su's son Tadayoshi but managed to draw first blood, outpacing the troops of =
Fukushima Masanori and attacking Ukita Hideie's contingent; at the end of th=
e battle he was shot and wounded by a Shimazu sniper; he was afterwards awar=
ded Sawayama in Ômi province but died in 1602, evidently as a result of his =
Sekigahara wound; he was noted from dressing his men in red armor, and his c=
ontingent was often known as Ii's 'Red Devils' for its fighting spirit (Ii h=
imself was sometimes called 'Akaoni', or Red Devil/ogre)
Sons: Naotsugu (H), Naotaka
Other names: Ii Manchiyo

>
> In a video game of mine and throughout a couple of books I have
> read and seen Naomasa. He was a great daimyo and lead the "Red
> Devils". What happened to him? There is nothing in the archives about
> him even though he was a great samurai. Any thoughts?
>
>
> Ryan

[Previous #998]


Made with