Kuki Yoshitaka

* Sen5
* Sen2
* Sen1

**Kuki Yoshitaka**  (九鬼 (あけち)嘉隆 (みつひで), *****Kuki Yoshitaka*****? Kuki Yoshitaka) is the head (Sen1-2) of the Kuki Clan or retainer of the Kitabatake Clan, serving under Kitabatake Tomonori. He/She serves as a recruitable general since Sengoku Hime 1, and has appeared in Sengoku Hime 2, Sengoku Hime 5.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 1:**
The face of Se, called the Kuki Suigun.
A man of the sea with a dynamic personality who does not care about details.
He is frustrated when he sees a man who is nayonayo.
He is kind to women but strict to men.

九鬼水軍と呼ばれる瀬の顔。
細かい事にこだわらない豪快な性格の海の男。
ナヨナヨしている男を見るとイライラする。
女性には優しいが男には何処までも厳しい。

**Sengoku Hime 2:**
The head of a pirate called the Kuki Navy.
A man of the sea with a dynamic personality who does not care about details.
He is frustrated when he sees a man who is nayonayo.
He is kind to women but strict to men.

細かい事にこだわらない豪快な性格の海の男。
ナヨナヨしている男を見るとイライラする。
女性にはやさしいが男には何処までも厳しい。
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原画:真紅

**Sengoku Hime 5:**
The head of the Kuki Navy, nicknamed "Captain Kukki". She's a laid-back, easy-going weather girl, but she also has the courage to put her ideas into action without thinking ahead. She's older than she looks, and she's trying to be her sister.

デザイナー：.ReeＣＶ：尾崎未來

## Historical Information

Kuki Yoshitaka (九鬼 嘉隆) (1542 – November 17, 1600) was a naval commander during Japan's Sengoku Period, under Oda Nobunaga, and later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was also the ninth headmaster of the Kuki family's school of martial arts, Kukishin-ryū and thus a very skilled warrior.

In the 1570s, Kuki allied himself with Oda Nobunaga, and commanded his fleet, supporting land-based attacks on the Ikkō-ikki.
In 1574, his aid ensured a victory for Nobunaga in his third attempt to attack the Nagashima fortress.
In 1576, he was defeated at Kizugawaguchi by the Mōri clan fleet, but 1578 brought victory in the second Battle of Kizugawaguchi, in which Kuki used 'iron ships' to repel the arrows and musket balls of the opposing Mōri clan's ships.
In 1584, Yoshitaka along with Takigawa Kazumasu besieged Kanie castle, in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign to consolidate his power over the lands held by the Oda clan in Owari province.
In 1587, he led Toyotomi Hideyoshi's fleet in a campaign in Kyūshū, alongside Konishi Yukinaga, Wakizaka Yasuharu and Katō Yoshiaki. Three years later, along with Wakizaka Yasuharu and Kato Yoshiaki he went on to lead the Siege of Shimoda in the Odawara campaign 1590. He continued in his role as commander of Hideyoshi's fleet, launching an invasion of Korea in 1592 from his flagship Nipponmaru. He was severely defeated in the Battle of Myeongryang.
Death
In 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara, Kuki Yoshitaka fought alongside the Ishida Mitsunari forces, while his son Kuki Moritaka joined the opposing force, under Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Following Tokugawa's victory, his son successfully guaranteed Yoshitaka's safety from Ieyasu. In a turn of fate, Yoshitaka committed seppuku before the news from Moritaka reached him.

**Lord(s):**織田信長→信雄→豊臣秀吉→秀頼

**Father:**九鬼定隆

**Sibling(s):**浄隆、光隆、嘉隆、松木修理室、間柄千助室、白主佐衛門室

**Spouse(s):**橘宗忠妹法輪院、妙天院

**Children:**成隆、娘（豊田五郎右衛門室）、娘（甲賀左馬室）、徳隆、守隆、主殿助、五郎八、娘（渡辺直次室）、五郎九郎、長兵衛、五郎兵衛