Yamauchi Kazutoyo

Yamauchi Kazutoyo (山内 一豊 （やまうち かつとよ）), also spelled Yamanouchi (1545/1546? – November 1, 1605). His father Yamauchi Moritoyo, was a descendant of Fujiwara no Hidesato, a senior retainer of the Iwakura Oda clan (opposed to Oda nobunaga), and lord of Kuroda castle in Owari Province at the end of the Sengoku period of Japan.

In this Japanese name, the family name is Yamauchi.
Yamauchi Kazutoyo
Bronze statue of Yamauchi in Kochi
Lord of Kakegawa
In office
1590–1600
Preceded bynone
Succeeded byMatsudaira Sadakatsu
Lord of Tosa
In office
1601–1605
Preceded byChōsokabe Morichika
Succeeded byYamauchi Tadayoshi
Personal details
Born1546?
Owari Province, Japan
DiedNovember 1, 1605
Kōchi, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Spouse(s)Yamauchi Chiyo
Statue of Yamauchi Chiyo with the horse she gave to her husband

Following the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Kazutoyo built Kōchi Castle in what was then the province of Tosa. Kazutoyo held the title of Tosa no kami. His life spanned the closing years of the Sengoku period, the Azuchi–Momoyama period, and the beginning of the Edo period.

Just four years after he became Lord of Tosa, Kazutoyo died without issue aged around 60, and was succeeded as Lord of Tosa by his nephew Tadayoshi.

When he was still a 400-Koku lord many of great people when child was entrusted to him, like Kuroda Nagamasa was hostage of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hidetsugu was taught by him.

Family
  • Father: Yamauchi Moritoyo (1510-1559)
  • Mother: Hoshuin (d.1586)
  • Wife: Endo Chiyo (1557-1617) later Genshoin, daughter of Endo Morikazu, lord of Gujo-Hachiman castle
  • Daughter: Yonehime (1580-1586)
  • Adopted:
    • Shonan Shoka (1586-1637)
    • Yamauchi Tadayoshi (1592-1665)

In drama

The 45th NHK Taiga drama (2006) is a dramatization of the life of Kazutoyo, with his wife Chiyo as the central character. Kōmyō-ga-tsuji: Yamauchi Kazutoyo no Tsuma stars Nakama Yukie as Chiyo. Takaya Kamikawa plays Kazutoyo. The story tells how Chiyo, as a wise and beautiful wife, helped her husband Yamauchi Kazutoyo up from an ordinary samurai to the governor of an entire province, Tosa. The story is by Shiba Ryōtarō.

Further reading
  • Tabata Yasuko 田端泰子. Yamanouchi Kazutoyo to Chiyo: Sengoku bushi no kazokuzō 山內一豊と千代 : 戦国武士の家族像. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店, 2005.
Preceded by
Hashiba Hideyoshi		 Daimyō of Nagahama
1585–1590		 Succeeded by
Naitō Nobunari
Preceded by
none		 Daimyō of Kakegawa
1590–1600		 Succeeded by
Matsudaira Sadakatsu
Preceded by
Chōsokabe Morichika		 Daimyō of Tosa
1601–1605		 Succeeded by
Yamauchi Tadayoshi


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