Kuroda Yoshitaka

Kuroda Yoshitaka, better known as Kuroda Kanbei, was a Japanese samurai and strategist who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi in his campaigns to unify Japan and was rewarded with lands in Buzen province. A convert to Christianity, he later retired as the lay monk Josui. During the Sekigahara campaign of 1600 he fought for Tokugawa Ieyasu in Kyushu, and his son Kuroda Nagamasa became the first lord of the Fukuoka domain.