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Yamanouchi Kazutoyo
Japanese feudal lord
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Yamanouchi family history
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…Yamanouchi family’s fortunes began with Yamanouchi Kazutoyo (1546–1605). For his successes on the battlefield in the service of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, then the most powerful general in Japan, Kazutoyo was rewarded with a small fief. After Hideyoshi’s death, Kazutoyo switched his loyalty to Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), whom he aided at the…
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