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Daimyo flags - Echizen (Japan)

Last modified: 2023-06-10 by zachary harden
Keywords: echizen | kuni: echizen | daimyo |
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Niwa Nagashige

1571-1637

War flag
[war flag of Niwa Nagashige]   image by Jaume Ollé

In 1585, he succeeded his father and took over Echizen, Wakasa, and half of Kaga provinces. He was successful in the winter battle of Osaka and became the lord of Shiraishi Castle in Mutsu Province with 100,000 goku. The war banner was a black-and-white diagonally divided zigzag.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 February 2023

Outani Yoshitsugu

1559-1600

War flag
[war flag of Outani Yoshitsugu]  image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 February 2023

He served under Toyotomi Hideyoshi and distinguished himself in many battles. He was attacked by Kobayakawa Hideaki, who turned to Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara, and committed suicide. The war banner has dark blue background with three white circles.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 February 2023

Asakura Yoshikage

[flag of Asakura Yoshikage]
by Nozomi Kariyasu, 12 February 2023

[flag of Asakura Yoshikage]
by Nozomi Kariyasu, 12 February 2023


 

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Asakura Yoshikage (1533-1573) In 1548, he succeeded to the governorship and became the 11th head of Echizen Province. The first year of Tensho(1573) Oda Nobunaga attacked Asakura and Yoshikage was defeated and committed suicide. The war banner has white background with Asakura’s Kamon family emblem of three stacked Japanese quinces in black topped with a white Maneki small streaming flag. Together with the wisteria emblem, woodsorrel emblem, falcon's feather emblem, and paulownia emblem, Japanese quince emblem is called the "five most widely used family emblems in Japan.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 12 February 2023