Daimyo flags - Buzen (Japan)

Last modified: 2023-07-08 by zachary harden
Keywords: buzen | kuni: buzen | daimyo | stripes: red and white | circle: red | mouri katsunaga | sengoku hidenori |
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• Mouri Katsunaga
• Sengoku Hidenori

Daimyos of this area who ruled multiple kunis:

• Hosokawa Tadaoki
• Kuroda Nagamasa
• Ouuchi Yoshitaka

See also:

• Japan
• Daimyo flags, 15th - 17th century

Mouri Katsunaga

?-1615

He served under Toyotomi Hideyoshi and was given 10,000 goku in Buzen Province in 1587, and went to battle on Toyotomi's side in the Osaka Winter Campaign of 1614, but was defeated and committed suicide. The war banner has white background with a red circle. The Minamoto clan, which established the shogunate and samurai government, is said to have used a white flag with a Hinomaru red circle as a military banner in addition to the white flag, and many Daimyo used the Hinomaru in imitation of this.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 20 February 2023

Sengoku Hidenori

dates of birth and death unknown

Warlord from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the early Edo period. He participated in the Western forces in the Battle of Sekigahara. It is said that he also joined the Western forces in the winter battle of Osaka, but was defeated and fled. The war banner was a red circle with a black center dot on a white background with two black diagonal lines in Japan at the bottom.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 30 June 2023