Konishi Yukinaga

小西行長

c. 1555–1600
Christian general; vanguard of the Korea invasions
Also written: Konishi Yukinaga · 小西行長

The merchant's son and Christian general — Dom Agostinho — who led the vanguard into Korea in 1592 and spent the war seeking a negotiated way out of it. He backed the losing side at Sekigahara and, refusing suicide as a Christian, was beheaded at Kyoto.

Full article: The Sword Was at Hand: Konishi Yukinaga, the Merchant’s Son Who Refused Seppuku, c. 1555–1600

Appears in

The Year of Two Embassies: Ieyasu's 1610 Overtures to China and Korea
The Boy on the Water: Amakusa Shirō and the Manufacture of a Messiah, 1621–1638
The Battle of Sekigahara: Six Hours That Made the Shogunate
The Stage of Empire: The Building of Osaka Castle, 1583–1590
The Christian Century: Faith and Power in Feudal Japan
Crosses on Both Sides: The Christian Daimyō at Sekigahara and the Victory That Ruined Them, 1600
Gaspar Coelho: The Priest Who Thought He Was a Prince
The Castle That Was Already a Ruin: Hara-jō, the Siege of 1637–1638, and What the Excavators Found
The Surname That Means a Country: Hasekura Tsunenaga's Afterlife and the Japón of Coria del Río, 1620–2013
The Imjin War: Hideyoshi’s Invasion of Korea and the War That Broke an Empire
Julia and Tokuan Naitō: The Abbess and the Lord of Tanba
A Single Windy Night: Yui Shōsetsu and the Rōnin Conspiracy of 1651
The Shimabara Rebellion: The Siege That Sealed Japan
Takayama Ukon: The Samurai Who Chose God Over Japan
Born to Rule: Tokugawa Iemitsu and the Perfection of Control
The Monkey Who Became God: The Life and Personality of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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