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*''Born: [[1581]]''
*''Died: [[1633]]''
Umezu Masakage was a retainer in service to [[Kubota han]], known chiefly for his role as ''sô yama [[bugyo|bugyô]]'', or "general mining magistrate."
Masakage was originally a rônin, who entered the service of the [[Satake clan]] of Kubota when his more educated and cultivated older brother, [[Umezu Noritada]], was appointed [[Satake Yoshinobu|Satake Yoshinobu's]] tea server. After successfully eliminating a treasonous ''[[karo|karô]]'' (domain elder) at Yoshinobu's orders, he was elevated in status to one of the daimyô's closest advisors, and soon afterwards was named in [[1612]] administrator over the domain's mines.
As mines magistrate, he took a harsh stance against bandits and anything else which threatened the smooth operations and prosperity of the mine, but was relatively ''laissez-faire'' when it came to imposing controls on the people of the mining towns - this, too, was aimed at ensuring the productivity of the mines.
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==References==
*Amy Stanley, ''Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2012), 24, 28-29.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
*''Died: [[1633]]''
Umezu Masakage was a retainer in service to [[Kubota han]], known chiefly for his role as ''sô yama [[bugyo|bugyô]]'', or "general mining magistrate."
Masakage was originally a rônin, who entered the service of the [[Satake clan]] of Kubota when his more educated and cultivated older brother, [[Umezu Noritada]], was appointed [[Satake Yoshinobu|Satake Yoshinobu's]] tea server. After successfully eliminating a treasonous ''[[karo|karô]]'' (domain elder) at Yoshinobu's orders, he was elevated in status to one of the daimyô's closest advisors, and soon afterwards was named in [[1612]] administrator over the domain's mines.
As mines magistrate, he took a harsh stance against bandits and anything else which threatened the smooth operations and prosperity of the mine, but was relatively ''laissez-faire'' when it came to imposing controls on the people of the mining towns - this, too, was aimed at ensuring the productivity of the mines.
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==References==
*Amy Stanley, ''Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2012), 24, 28-29.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
