Kuroda Kanbei

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* Amagi Souma (Possible Lover)
* Hashiba Hideyoshi (Lord)

Sengoku Hime 5
Sengoku Hime 6
Sengoku Hime 7
Tengokuhime 1
Tengokuhime 2

**Kuroda Kanbei**  (黒田 (くろだ)官兵衛 (かんべえ), *****Kuroda Kanbei*****? Kuroda Yoshitaka) 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, Sengoku Hime 6, Sengoku Hime 7,Tengokuhime 1, Tengokuhime 2.

## Introduction

**Sengoku Hime 4:**
A general who serves Hideyoshi.
Serious and solid person. He is friendly, always in control of himself, and rarely gets angry. Mysteriously, horses are often with Fukushima Masanori, who has the opposite personality. It seems that her emotional expression is straightforward, probably because he is forgiving her for her.

半兵衛に負けず劣らず好奇心旺盛で、落ち着きが無く、おもしろそうなことを思い付くと試さずにはいられない。才能のある人物だが子供のような言動が散見される危なっかしい人物。
半兵衛とは非常に仲が良いが、そろうと相乗効果を起こしてとんでもないことをしてしまうことがある。
【デザイナー：雪月竹馬】　【演者：御苑生メイ】

**Sengoku Hime 5:**
A general who serves Hideyoshi.
Serious and solid person. He is friendly, always in control of himself, and rarely gets angry. Mysteriously, horses are often with Fukushima Masanori, who has the opposite personality. It seems that her emotional expression is straightforward, probably because he is forgiving her for her.

デザイナー：雪月竹馬ＣＶ：御苑生メイ

**Sengoku Hime 6:**
A positive and active warrior. Although he is childish, he often surprises the people around him by making strange tricks and discovering the essence. He has no desire for career advancement, no ambition, and he is a military commander just because the battle is interesting and it is fun to think about strategies. Hanbei is an old friend and a close friend.

デザイナー：一真 演者：御苑生メイ

**Tengoku Hime 1:**
He is an old friend of Takenaka Hanbei and is a close friend. As curious as Hanbei, he is restless and can't help but come up with something that looks interesting. He is a talented person, but a dangerous person with childish behavior. He is very close to Hanbei, but when they are together, they can have a synergistic effect and do ridiculous things.

竹中半兵衛とは旧知の仲で大親友。半兵衛に負けず劣らず好奇心旺盛で、落ち着きが無く、おもしろそうなことを思い付くと試さずにはいられない。才能のある人物だが子供のような言動が散見される危なっかしい人物。半兵衛とは非常に仲が良いが、ふたりそろうと相乗効果を起こしてとんでもないことをしてしまうことがある。
デザイナー:雪月竹馬

**Tengoku Hime 2:**
He is an old friend of Takenaka Hanbei and is a close friend.
As curious as Hanbei, he is restless and can't help but come up with something that looks interesting. He is a talented person, but a dangerous person with childish behavior. He is very close to Hanbei, but when they are together, they can have a synergistic effect and do ridiculous things. He is instrumental in unifying Hideyoshi's world. He was summoned to Venard when the world was unified and he was retired thinking of his late best friend Hanbei.

デザイナー:雪月竹馬
竹中半兵衛とは旧知の仲で大親友。
半兵衛に負けず劣らず好奇心旺盛で、落ち着きが無く、おもしろそうなことを思い付くと試さずにはいられない。才能のある人物だが子供のような言動が散見される危なっかしい人物。半兵衛とは非常に仲が良いが、二人揃うと相乗効果を起こしてとんでもない事をしてしまうことも。秀吉の天下統一に尽力。天下統一が成され、亡き親友の半兵衛を思いつつ隠居していた所、ヴェナールに召喚された。

## Historical Information

Kuroda Yoshitaka (黒田 孝高, December 22, 1546 – March 20, 1604), also known as Kuroda Kanbei (黒田 官兵衛, Kuroda Kanbee), was a Japanese daimyō of the late Sengoku through early Edo periods. Renowned as a man of great ambition, he succeeded Takenaka Hanbei as a chief strategist and adviser to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Kuroda became a Christian when he was 38, and received "Simeon Josui" as a baptismal name (rekishijin). His quick wit, bravery, and loyalty were respected by his warriors.

Kuroda Yoshitaka was born in Himeji (姫路) on December 22, 1546, as Mankichi (万吉), the son of Kuroda Mototaka. The Kuroda clan are believed to have originated in Ōmi Province. Yoshitaka's grandfather Shigetaka brought the family to Himeji and took up residence at Gochaku Castle (御着城), east of Himeji Castle.
Shigetaka served as a senior retainer of Kodera Masamoto, the lord of Himeji, and was so highly praised that Shigetaka's son Mototaka was allowed to marry Masamoto's adopted daughter (Akashi Masakaze’s daughter) and to use the Kodera name. Yoshitaka became the head of the Kuroda family at the age of 21 when his father, Mototaka, retired. Yoshitaka succeeded to the family headship in 1557.
Military life
Service under Nobunaga
In 1567, he fought in the Siege of Inabayama Castle against the Saitō clan. A few years later, with Toyotomi Hideyoshi spearheading the Oda clan's advance into the Chūgoku region, he pledged loyalty to the Oda. Yoshitaka, together with the sickly Takenaka Hanbei, served as Hideyoshi's strategists and assisted in the campaign against the Mōri clan.
In 1577, Arioka/Itami Castle's lord, Araki Murashige, concluded an alliance with the Mōri to revolt against the Oda. An allied Kodera Masamoto also hatched a plot to cooperate with Araki. Then in 1578, Kuroda went to Arioka castle to prevail on Araki not to defect. Araki chose to imprison Yoshitaka instead. Araki's revolt eventually concluded in 1579 at the Siege of Itami, culminating in Yoshitaka's rescue. Due to his long imprisonment (with lack of space for sleeping and sitting), Yoshitaka suffered a leg disorder and lost his eyesight in one eye for the rest of his life.
In 1582, he fought in the Siege of Takamatsu against the Mōri clan.
Service under Hideyoshi
He fought at the Battle of Yamazaki in 1582 under Hideyoshi, avenging the death of Oda Nobunaga.
Shortly before 1587, Yoshitaka was ordered by Hideyoshi to lead an attack into Siege of Kagoshima at Kyushu. Along with him was the Christian daimyō Takayama Ukon. After seeing the thriving Christian population of Kyushu, under Ukon's influence, Yoshitaka was baptized with the name ドン・シメオン (Dom Simeão = Don Simeon). After a visit to the Jesuit-controlled port of Nagasaki, Hideyoshi became fearful of the powerful influence that Jesuits and the Christian daimyōs wielded.
In 1587, he made his famous edict that expelled foreign missionaries and ordered all the Christian samurai under his rule to abandon their faith. While Ukon resisted the edict and lost his status, Yoshitaka gave up his new religion and adopted a monk's habit, calling himself Josui (如水). Like Naitō Joan (who took his name from Portuguese João), it is believed that Yoshitaka chose his new name from "Josué", the Portuguese version of "Joshua". His most prominent act during his short time as a Christian was his arrangement to save a Jesuit mission from Bungo when the Christian daimyō of that province, Ōtomo Sōrin, was under attack from the Shimazu clan.
Sekigahara campaign
In 1600, Yoshitaka was seemingly on the Tokugawa side during the Sekigahara campaign, having clashed against Ōtomo Yoshimune at the Battle of Ishigakibaru and also, having participated at the Siege of Yanagawa. In reality, he aimed to conquer the entire region of Kyūshū for his own during the major commotion of the Sekigahara campaign, even momentarily conquering seven of the island's provinces, a feat which ended in failure however due to Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory in the Battle of Sekigahara
Death
After moving to Chikuzen Province which today is part of Fukuoka Prefecture, the Kuroda built a new castle near Hakata-ku, and named it Fukuoka Castle also known as Maizuru Castle or Seki Castle which was completed in the early Edo period for tozama daimyō Kuroda Nagamasa.
After his son Kuroda Nagamasa succeeded him, Yoshitaka died on April 19, 1604. His grave is in the Namazuta area of Iizuka, Fukuoka, near the original site of Namazuta Castle.

**Lord(s):**小寺政職、織田信長、豊臣秀吉、秀頼、徳川家康

**Father:**黒田職隆

**Mother:**小寺政職養女

**Sibling(s):**孝高、利高、香山妙春、妙円尼、利則、直之、心誉春勢、浦上清宗室

**Spouse(s):**櫛橋光

**Children:**長政、熊之助、一成、松寿丸