About Maeba Yoshitsugu
Lived 1541 – 1574 (aged 32–33). Maeba Yoshitsugu was a Japanese samurai.
was a samurai retainer beneath the clan of Asakura throughout the late Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. He was also known as Katsurada Nagatoshi (桂田 長俊). He held the fortress of Kanegasaki in Siege of Kanegasaki (1570) against Oda Nobunaga.
After the defeat of the Asakura, Maeba defected to Nobunaga. He was killed in a revolt supported by Toda Nagashige in 1574.
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Who was Maeba Yoshitsugu?
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When was Maeba Yoshitsugu born?
Maeba Yoshitsugu was born in 1541.
When did Maeba Yoshitsugu die?
Maeba Yoshitsugu died on 10 February 1574.
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Maeba Yoshitsugu was a samurai.
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Maeba Yoshitsugu was Japanese.
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