Shimazu Takahisa (島津 貴久, May 28, 1514 – July 15, 1571), a son of Shimazu Tadayoshi, was a daimyō during Japan's Sengoku period. He was the fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan.
ShimazuTakahisa (島津 貴久, May 28, 1514 – July 15, 1571), a son of Shimazu Tadayoshi, was a daimyō during Japan's Sengoku period. He was the fifteenth head...
Shimazu Yoshihiro (島津 義弘, August 21, 1535 – August 30, 1619) was the second son of ShimazuTakahisa and the younger brother of Shimazu Yoshihisa. Traditionally...
16th Chief of Shimazu clan of Satsuma Province, the eldest son of ShimazuTakahisa. He was renowned as a great general, who managed to subjugate Kyushu...
son of ShimazuTakahisa. He served in a command capacity during his family's campaign to conquer Kyūshū. His sons were Shimazu Toyohisa, Shimazu Tadanao...
Shimazu Katsuhisa (島津 勝久, September 8, 1503 – November 9, 1573) was head of the Shimazu clan in Japan. He was adopted father of ShimazuTakahisa (son of...
sent his son ShimazuTakahisa to be adopted by Katsuhisa. In 1526, Katsuhisa handed over the position of the head of the family to Takahisa. In 1539 though...
no kami'. he was a third son of ShimazuTakahisa, who served as a general officer and senior retainer of the Shimazu clan of Satsuma Province. Toshihisa...
of Shimazu Tadayoshi as his wife as well as having his sister marry ShimazuTakahisa. On the other hand, he moved to unify Ōsumi Province and captured Takaoka...
in battle in Japan. ShimazuTakahisa attacked the castle of Kajiki in Ōsumi Province, in southern Kyushu. Ijuin Tadaaki, a Shimazu vassal, used a gun provided...
Tanegashima Satotoki (種子島恵時), a retainer of daimyō ShimazuTakahisa. Tokitaka was a father in law of Shimazu Yoshihisa. He became head of the Tanegashima clan...
Catholicism to Japan. On September 29, St. Francis Xavier visited ShimazuTakahisa, the daimyō of Kagoshima, asking for permission to build the first...
built by Shimazu Hisanaga in the thirteenth century. It was the original seat of power for the Shimazu clan until 1536, when ShimazuTakahisa relocated...
between such well-known daimyō as Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, ShimazuTakahisa, Ōtomo Yoshishige, Mōri Motonari, and Amago Haruhisa, the shogun's...
was a retainer of Satsuma daimyō Shimazu Yoshihisa. He is also known as Jiroshirō. He served under ShimazuTakahisa and then under Yoshihisa. Tadamoto...
Japan. The siege was just one of a number of military actions that ShimazuTakahisa had to take against his rebellious kokujin vassals in the Ito and Kimotsuki...
continues its retreat from Scottish and French forces. September 29 – ShimazuTakahisa, the ruling daimyo of Japan's Satsuma Province, welcomes the Jesuit...
confusion. At the Battle of Kizaki, in Japan (June 1572), the forces of ShimazuTakahisa, outnumbered ten to one by those of Itō Yoshisuke, prevailed, using...
representative of the Portuguese king, he was received in a friendly manner. ShimazuTakahisa (1514–1571), daimyō of Satsuma, gave a friendly reception to Francis...
painting Mona Lisa (b. 1479) 1544 – René of Châlon (b. 1519) 1571 – ShimazuTakahisa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1514) 1609 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter...
branches of the Shimazu family, Sanehisa and Katsuhisa, were warring for the sovereignty of their lands. Katsuhisa adopted ShimazuTakahisa who in 1542 was...
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