Katō Kiyomasa

* Sen5
* Sen4

**Katō Kiyomasa**  (加藤 (かとう)清正 (きよまさ), *****Katō Kiyomasa*****? Katō Kiyomasa) is a retainer of the Hashiba Clan, serving under Hashiba Hideyoshi. She serves as a recruitable general since Sengoku Hime 4, and has appeared in Sengoku Hime 5.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 4:**Since being discovered by Hideyoshi, he has served Hideyoshi as a military commander.
He is a brave general who is proud of his martial arts, but he is also a talented person who is also talented in building castles and hydraulic engineering.
He is a regular, and he is a friend who supports Hideyoshi together while competing with Yoshiaki for martial arts.
The aesthetic sense is very individual, and he decorates himself with something he likes with his sensibility, but there are few understanding people, and he feels sorry for those who lack such aesthetic sense.
The tiger seems to be suitable for her aesthetic sense.

武を誇る勇将だが、築城や治水にも才を見せる有能な人物。
正則、嘉明とは武功を競いながらも共に秀吉を支える友人同士。
その美意識は大変個性的で、その感性のままに気にいった物で身を飾り立てているが、理解者は少なく、そんな美意識に欠ける者たちのことを哀れんでいる。
虎はそんな彼女の美意識に適った存在と思われる。
【デザイナー：雪月竹馬】　【演者：白州　妙】

**Sengoku Hime 5:**A brave general who is proud of his martial arts, but a talented person who is also talented in building castles and hydraulic engineering. His aesthetic sense is very unique, and he decorates himself with something he likes, but his understanding is small and he feels sorry for those who lack such aesthetic sense. The tiger seems to be suitable for her aesthetic sense.

デザイナー：雪月竹馬ＣＶ：飯野ユウ

## Historial Infomation

Katō Kiyomasa (加藤 清正, July 25, 1562 – August 2, 1611) was a Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods. His court title was Higo-no-kami. His name as a child was Yashamaru, and first name was Toranosuke. He was one of Hideyoshi's Seven Spears of Shizugatake.

Kiyomasa was born in what is now Nakamura-ku, Nagoya (situated in contemporary Aichi District, Owari Province) to Katō Kiyotada. Kiyotada's wife, Ito, was a cousin of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's mother. Kiyotada died while his son, Kiyomasa (then known as Toranosuke) was still young. Soon after, Toranosuke entered into Hideyoshi's service, and in 1576, at age 15, was granted a stipend of 170 koku.
In 1582, he fought in Hideyoshi's army at Battle of Yamazaki, and later in 1583 at Battle of Shizugatake. Owing to his achievement in that battle, he became known as one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake and was rewarded with 3,000 additional koku.
When Hideyoshi became the kampaku in the summer of 1585, Kiyomasa received the court title of Kazue no Kami (主計頭, head of the accounting bureau) and junior 5th court rank, lower grade (ju go-i no ge 従五位下). In 1587, he fought at Kyūshū campaign against Shimazu clan. Later, after Higo Province was confiscated from Sassa Narimasa, he was granted 250,000 koku of land in Higo (roughly half of the province), and given Kumamoto Castle as his provincial residence.
Korean campaign
Kiyomasa was one of the three senior commanders during the Seven-Year (Imjin) War (1592–1598) against the Korean Joseon. Together with Konishi Yukinaga, he captured Seoul, Busan and many other cities. He defeated the last of the Korean regulars at the Battle of Imjin River and pacified Hamgyong.
The Korean king Seonjo abandoned Seoul before Kiyomasa's forces. Kiyomasa held two Korean princes who had deserted as hostages and used them to force lower-ranking Korean officials to surrender. During the war, he apparently hunted tigers for sport, using a yari (spear), and later presented the pelts to Hideyoshi. Some versions of the story says he was in fact hunting tigers to catch them alive, in order to bring their meat to Hideyoshi, as he thought it would improve his lord's health, but later, the tigers were killed because of the lack of food for his men.
Kiyomasa was a renowned castle-builder. During the Imjin war he built several strategic Japanese-style castles in the territories he conquered. Ulsan castle was one of such fortresses and the site of Kiyomasa's most famous battle — the Siege of Ulsan on December 22, 1597. Kiyomasa led the defense of the castle, successfully holding at bay Chinese general Yang Hao's army, which numbered 60,000. He defended the castle until November 23, 1598. However, his bravery was not reported to Hideyoshi by his rival and superior Ishida Mitsunari. Hideyoshi recalled him to Kyōto.
As did a number of other daimyōs who participated in the invasion of Korea, he took a group of captive Korean potters back to his fief in Kyūshū.
Sekigahara campaign
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. First, the Western forces were led by Ishida Mitsunari, whom Katô loathed as a civilian interloper and had quarreled with during the Korean campaign; and second, 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, who was executed in the wake of Sekigahara), bringing his income to nearly 500,000 koku.
Death
In his later years, Kiyomasa tried to work as a mediator for the increasingly complicated relationship between Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyori. In 1611, en route by sea to Kumamoto after one such meeting, he fell ill, and died shortly after his arrival. He was buried at Honmyō-ji temple in Kumamoto, but also has graves in Yamagata Prefecture and Tokyo. Kiyomasa is also enshrined in many Shinto shrines in Japan, including Katō Shrine in Kumamoto.
His son, Katō Tadahiro, succeeded him as Higo no kami 肥後守 (provincial governor of Higo), but his fief (Kumamoto) was confiscated, and he was exiled (kaieki; attaindered) in 1632 by Tokugawa Iemitsu on suspicion of conspiring against him, possibly with the likes of Tokugawa Tadanaga; who was ordered to commit seppuku in 1633.

**Lord(s):**豊臣秀吉→秀頼

**Father:**加藤清忠

**Mother:**伊都（鍛冶屋清兵衛の娘）

**Spouse(s):**山崎片家娘、清浄院、本覚院、浄光院、正応院

**Children:**虎熊、本浄院、忠正、忠広、瑤林院、貴田正勝、百助