Shimazu Yoshihiro
His mother was a daughter of "Iriki'in Shigesato" (入来院重聡), "Sesshō" (雪窓). Shimazu Yoshihiro, Shimazu Toshihisa and Shimazu Iehisa were his brothers. He is said to have been born in Izaku Castle in 1535. His childhood name was "Torajumaru" (虎寿丸) but he went by the name of "Matasaburō" (又三郎). On his coming-of-age (genpuku), he took the name of "Tadayoshi"(忠良) but after receiving a kanji from the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiteru, changed to "Yoshitatsu" (義辰). He later changed his name to "Yoshihisa". He married his own aunt and after her death, married his relative, a daughter of Tanegashima Tokitaka. His knowledge of culture is not known but Hosokawa Yusai taught him classic literatures, and Kampaku Konoe Wakihisa, who was skilled in waka and renga, is believed to have frequented Yoshihisa's house. He initially looked favourably on Christian missionaries such as Luís de Almeida.