Ishida Mitsunari
One of the five commissioners (bugyō) of the Toyotomi regime, an administrator of land surveys and the logistics of the Korean invasion, who raised the Western Army against Tokugawa Ieyasu after Hideyoshi’s death and was executed after Sekigahara
Born to a local warrior family at Ishida in Ōmi, he served Hashiba Hideyoshi from youth; a story tells how he caught Hideyoshi’s eye by serving tea three different ways. He handled administration such as land surveys and the governorship of Sakai, and in 1595 became lord of Sawayama Castle in Ōmi with 190,000 koku. During the invasion of Korea he crossed over to manage supply and the peace talks. After Hideyoshi’s death he fell out with the generals’ faction led by Katō Kiyomasa, raised the Western Army in 1600 and, defeated at Sekigahara, was captured and executed at Rokujō-gawara in Kyoto.
