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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Ōtani Yoshitsugu

1559 - 1600

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Ōtani Yoshitsugu (大谷 吉継, 1558 or 1565 – October 21, 1600) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through the Azuchi-Momoyama Period. He was also known by his court title Junior Assistant Minister of Justice or Gyōbu-shōyū (刑部少輔). He was born in 1558 to a father who was said to be a retainer of either Ōtomo Sōrin or Rokkaku Yoshikata. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ōtani Yoshitsugu has received more than 225,116 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Ōtani Yoshitsugu is the 820th most popular military personnel (down from 744th in 2019), the 575th most popular biography from Japan (down from 558th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Ōtani Yoshitsugu ranks 820 out of 1,468. Before him are Albert Leo Schlageter, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, Cleombrotus, Artabazos II, Markos Botsaris, and Wilhelm Souchon. After him are Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Takasugi Shinsaku, Vasili Mitrokhin, Erhard Raus, Karl Frenzel, and Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1559, Ōtani Yoshitsugu ranks 8. Before him are Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Ishida Mitsunari, Catherine de Bourbon, Lawrence of Brindisi, and Isaac Casaubon. After him are Cigoli, Philip II, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and George Chapman. Among people deceased in 1600, Ōtani Yoshitsugu ranks 8. Before him are Ishida Mitsunari, Sawney Bean, Catharina van Hemessen, Luis de Molina, Konishi Yukinaga, and José de Acosta. After him are Bâkî, Hosokawa Gracia, Enrique of Malacca, Gaspar de Lemos, Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, and Jerzy Radziwiłł.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ōtani Yoshitsugu ranks 575 out of 6,048. Before him are Korechika Anami (1887), Ankō Itosu (1831), Osami Nagano (1880), Yasuyuki Kuwahara (1942), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), and Tokugawa Ietsugu (1709). After him are Tokugawa Ieshige (1712), Takasugi Shinsaku (1839), Ken Kutaragi (1950), Daidō Moriyama (1938), Tadahiko Ueda (1947), and Usaburo Hidaka (null).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Ōtani Yoshitsugu ranks 52. Before him are Minamoto no Yoshitomo (1123), Taira no Masakado (903), Seiichi Itō (1890), Gunichi Mikawa (1888), Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758), and Osami Nagano (1880). After him are Takasugi Shinsaku (1839), Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), Hiroshi Ōshima (1886), Kazuo Sakamaki (1918), Isamu Chō (1895), and Takeo Takagi (1892).

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