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Kobayakawa Hideaki

1577–1602 · 16th century

Kobayakawa Hideaki was a Japanese daimyo, a nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife adopted into the Kobayakawa family. At the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 his defection from the Western army to Tokugawa Ieyasu decided the battle. He was rewarded with Okayama and the provinces of Bizen and Mimasaka but died without an heir in 1602, and his domain passed to the Ikeda.

Kobayakawa Hideaki
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Okayama Domain

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kobayakawa Hideaki. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/kobayakawa-hideaki
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