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''(1586-1632) was a Japanese samurai of the early Edo period who served as ''daimyō'' of Wakayama han, and was later transferred to Hiroshima han.^[1]
Born 'Asano Iwamatsu', he was the son of Asano Nagamasa, who was a senior retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In 1594, Nagaakira was made a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and stipended at 3,000 ''koku''. Following Tokugawa Ieyasu six years later at the Battle of Sekigahara, he was awarded with the 24,000 ''koku'' fief of Ashimori han. As his brother Yukinaga died heirless in 1613, Nagaakira succeeded him, becoming daimyo of Wakayama han.^[1] At the siege of Ōsaka, he commanded a portion of Tokugawa Ieyasu's army. In the summer of 1615, Toyotomi Hideyori's Western Army moved to attack Asano's castle at Wakayama. Though most of Asano's forces were at Ōsaka, sieging Toyotomi's fortress, the remaining garrison outnumbered the Western warriors, and Asano led his men in sallying forth to meet the enemy in the Battle of Kashii.^[3]
Asano also fought in the Battle of Tennoji, the decisive final battle in the siege of Ōsaka, where he commanded Tokugawa's rear guard. In 1619, he was granted the fief of Hiroshima, in Aki Province, which would come to be the home of the Asano family for many generations.

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1. http://nekhet.ddo.jp/people/japan/asano01.html
2. http://nekhet.ddo.jp/people/japan/asano01.html
3. http://www.geocities.jp/senryusai/senryusai.asano.html


★ Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.