Gotō Mototsugu

Gotō Mototsugu

, was a "samurai" of the Sengoku period. He fought under Kuroda Yoshitaka and then under Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Korea and at Sekigahara. He was killed at the battle of Dōmyōji during the siege of Osaka in 1615.

At the second siege of Jinju, during Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, Gotō was the first samurai to enter Jinju castle.

During the siege of Osaka, Gotō was one of the most able generals in Toyotomi Hideyori's Western Army. He was the chief commander at the battle of Dōmyōji where, severely outnumbered, he held out for reinforcements until, the reinforcements lost in the fog, he was defeated and killed.

References

*Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.


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