Yuki Hideyasu

Yuki Hideyasu (, Yūki Hideyasu), born Tokugawa Ogimaru (, Tokugawa Ogimaru), is a character featured in Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan! based on the real-life historical figure .
== Background ==
Yuki Hideyasu was the second-born son of Tokugawa Ieyasu; the Japanese daimyo who would go onto become the first shogun of a unified Japan after the Warring States period.
After his older brother was executed on orders of Tokugawa's ally, Oda Nobunaga, Yuki became the heir to the Tokugawa Clan. Nonetheless, Hideyasu was sent as a hostage to the Yuki Clan due to political reasons, but he would eventually ingratiate himself so well with his captors that they offered to formally adopt him and treat him as a family member rather than a prisoner. After agreeing to the adoption, Hideyasu changed his name to the one by which he was most known, married into the Yuki Clan and fathered a daughter.
According to Yuki's birth father, on top of the political reasons for which he was sent away as a hostage, Ieyasu also wanted to test his son's skills to survive in a hostile environment to see if he was worthy of being his successor. Ultimately, Tokugawa was impressed by how well his son had fared in captivity and by the skills he developed as a leader and a military commander.
== Involvement ==
=== Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan!: 1600 ===
Unfortunately for Yuki, several men of high political ambition within the Tokugawa Clan saw the possibility of him succeeding his father as a threat to their goals. Chief among them was the official emissary of the Emperor within the Tokugawa ranks, Nankobo Tenkai. He saw Yuki as too independent and steadfast in his convictions to manipulate and influence as he needed for his political projects, especially when compared with his more amicable and naïve younger brother, Tokugawa Hidetada.
Tenkai eventually came up with a plan to dispose of Yuki and ensure that Hidetada would be the Tokugawa heir. He approached another highly ambitious member of the Tokugawa Clan, General Marume Nagayoshi, and requested that he put together a special unit of soldiers to attack Yuki's estate in the midst of the preparations for the upcoming Battle of Sekigahara. Two of the unit's members would be tasked with assassinating Yuki while the rest of the unit caused a distraction, after which the two assassins would be killed to prevent them from revealing who'd put them up to the murder. Tenkai hoped that, in the chaos that would ensue after the battle, the Tokugawa Clan would be unable to properly investigate what transpired on the night of the attack.
Marume did as he was instructed and, out of his unit, he charged Miyamoto Musashi and Majima Gorohachi with carrying out the assassination. While Marume's troops attacked the Yuki estate's front gate to cause a distraction, Miyamoto and Majima snuck in through the back and fought their way past the few undistracted guards to reach Yuki's chambers. Yuki had suspected that Tenkai was plotting against him, so he was prepared and armed when Miyamoto arrived to kill him. Nonetheless, despite trying to defend himself, Yuki ended up being killed in the ensuing fight. His last words were a lament that he was unable to free his brother from Tenkai's corrupting influence.
== Gallery ==
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