Shimazu Shoso

• Other Names: 久徳 (Hisanori), 兵庫 (Hyôgo)
• Japanese: 島津 将曹 (Shimazu Shôsô)

Shimazu Shôsô Hisanori was a late Edo period karô to the Shimazu clan lords of Kagoshima han.

He was related by marriage in some way to karô Zusho Hirosato, and was promoted and granted appointments as a result. Following Hirosato's death, Hisanori became an even closer retainer to lord Shimazu Narioki. In 1849, during the succession dispute known as the "Oyura sôdô," he helped dispatch a significant number of supporters of Shimazu Nariakira's succession, though Nariakira won out in the end. The following year, Hisanori was formally named karô and served for part or most of that year in Edo. The following year, however, after Narioki's death and Nariakira's succession, Hisanori was removed from that position.

References

• Kojima Mabumi 小島摩文, Nihon kinsei seikatsu ehiki: Ryûkyûjin gyôretsu to Edo hen 日本近世生活絵引：琉球人行列と江戸編. Research Center for Nonwritten Cultural Materials, Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture, Kanagawa University 神奈川大学日本常民文化研究所非文字資料研究センター (2020), 63.