Yuki Yaheiji (結城弥平次)

Yaheiji YUKI (1543 - year of death unknown) was a Christian bushi (Christian samurai).

He was a vassal of Yukinaga KONISHI. He was appointed as a Jodai of Higo Aitoji-jo Castle. He had a Christian name George.

He participated in building Nanban-dera Temple in Kyoto. When Yukinaga KONISHI entered Higo Uto-jo Castle to be a lord, he was appointed as a Jodai (keeper of the castle) of Aitoji-jo Castle in Yabe as well as Ichibei OTA.

After the Battle of Sekigahara, he was given chigyo (enfeoffment) of 3000 koku and became the lord of Kaneyama-jo (Yuki-jo) Castle, but after the death of Harunobu ARIMA, the crackdown on Christian got severe, and he was missing from the history after 1613.

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