Fujioka Jiro

Fujioka Jiro (died 1580s) was a samurai who served under daimyō Hayashi in the city of Fukuchiyama, Tanba Province.
==Biography==
Under Hayashi's direction, Fujioka Jiro piled exorbitant taxes on the townspeople which exceeded all reason and enforced them with his soldiers. These taxes became so excessive that they threatened them with starvation, but Jiro continued to patrol the streets daily extorting money from merchants and harassing the general populace. News of this corruption eventually reached the samurai Yasuke. Upon his arrival, he was tipped off by an elderly woman to Jiro's activities.
Yasuke easily located Jiro in the Dyeing District, where Jiro had detained two vendors and blocked off the street with his guards. The visiting samurai fought his way to Jiro and beheaded him in broad daylight after a brief duel. A remaining guard nearby charged at Yasuke but was promptly dispatched from above by Yasuke's shinobi ally Fujibayashi Naoe. From Jiro's corpse, the two recovered a message verifying that Jiro's extortion was sanctioned by his lord Hayashi. That night, Naoe assassinated Hayashi at his castle.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Shadows
==References==
Category:1580s deaths
Category:Individuals
Category:Japanese
Category:Samurai