page_title: Katō Kiyomasa
section_title: Sekigahara campaign
hierarchical_section_title: Katō Kiyomasa / Sekigahara campaign
caption_attribution_description: English: R: Banner (white and black diagonal with white characters Namu MyoHO rengekyO, "Hail the Sublime Lotus Sutra"; same phrase in black letters on white ornament), L: Battle Standard (white nine-pole baren, or clipped tassel cloth)
context_page_description: Katō Kiyomasa was a Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods. His court title was Higo-no-kami. His child name was Yashamaru, and first name was Toranosuke.
context_section_description: After Hideyoshi's death, Kiyomasa clashed with Ishida Mitsunari, and started approaching Tokugawa Ieyasu.
  both Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari courted his support. Ishida's so - called Western forces might well have gotten themselves a formidable warrior were it not for two factors that decided Kiyomasa, otherwise a Toyotomi loyalist. Firstly - the Western forces were led by Ishida Mitsunari, whom Katô loathed as a civilian interloper and had quarreled with during the Korean campaign; secondly, the Western forces included Konishi Yukinaga~. Although Konishi's navy had aided Kiyomasa quite a bit at the Siege of Ulsan, the two men despised each other as much as ever. Katô joined with Tokugawa and during the Sekigahara campaign (August-October 1600) fought Ishida's allies on Kyushu and took a number of Konishi's castles. He was preparing to invade the Shimazu domain when the campaign ended and Ieyasu ordered him to stand down. For his service, Katô was awarded the other half of Higo (formerly owned by Konishi - executed in the wake of Sekigahara), bringing his income to nearly 500,000 koku.
caption: Katō Kiyomasa (1562–1611) banner and battle standard
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