1. Kobayakawa Hideaki was the fifth son of Kinoshita Iesada and a nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
12 Facts About Kobayakawa Hideaki
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Kobayakawa Hideaki was gained the rank of Saemon no Kami or in China Shikkingo at genpuku and held the court title of Chunagon, Hideaki was called Kingo Chunagon.
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Kobayakawa Hideaki was adopted by Hideyoshi and called himself Hashiba Hidetoshi.
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Kobayakawa Hideaki was then again adopted by Kobayakawa Takakage, becoming Kobayakawa Hidetoshi.
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Kobayakawa Hideaki then renamed himself Hideaki after Takakage's death.
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Kobayakawa Hideaki never forgot nor forgave Mitsunari and worked to undermine his position.
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Kobayakawa Hideaki was known to attack women and children during the campaigns in Korea, an act that was despised by many of his fellow commanders.
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Kobayakawa Hideaki acted as though he would go along with Mitsunari, even though he intended to betray him, having secretly communicated with Ieyasu.
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Kobayakawa Hideaki then ordered an attack on the Otani troops, and while this attack was beaten back temporarily, his action forced the other armies who had pledged betrayal to turn.
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Kobayakawa Hideaki experienced success in the mopping up operations that followed, defeating Mitsunari's father, Ishida Masatsugu in the Siege of Sawayama.
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Once the dust had settled, Kobayakawa Hideaki was given the defeated Ukita clan's former fiefdoms of Bizen and Mimasaka, for a total of 550,000 koku.
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However, Kobayakawa Hideaki drank himself to death two years later after supposedly going mad, and with no one to succeed him, the Kobayakawa Hideaki clan disbanded, and his fiefdoms were absorbed by the neighboring Ikeda clan.