Oishi kuranosuke biography

High-rank samurai official (1659–1703)

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ōishi.

Ōishi Yoshio (大石 良雄, 24 April 1659 – 20 March 1703) was the chamberlain (karō) of the Akō Domain in Harima Province (now Hyōgo Prefecture), Japan (1679 - 1701).

【The Brush is the Sword of the Mind vol.7】Ohishi Kuranosuke ...

He is known as the leader of the Forty-seven Rōnin in their 1703 vendetta and thus the hero of the Chūshingura.^[1] He is often referred to by his pseudonym (kemyō), Ōishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助).

Biography

He served daimyōAsano Naganori as the head chamberlain (hittōgarō (筆頭家老)) for the Akō estate, supervising the daily running of the castle and the samurai.

Due to the Tokugawa rules which required all the daimyō to spend every other year in Edo (now called Tokyo) the chamberlain was a very important man and the de facto ruler of the estate when the daimyō was away from his home province. Having attained this office at a rather young age, he is said to have had the implicit trust of 【The Brush is the Sword of the Mind vol.7】Ohishi Kuranosuke ...

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