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* ''Birth: [[1553]]?''
* ''Death: [[1578]]''
* ''Distinction: [[Amako clan|Amako]] loyalist''

Katsuhisa was the youngest son of [[Amako Masahisa]] and a grandson of [[Amako Kunihisa]]. His father, grandfather, and two elder brothers were executed on the orders of [[Amako Haruhisa]] in [[1554]]. Katsuhisa, then a baby, was spirited away and at length became a monk living in [[Kyoto]]. When the Amako fell to the [[Mori clan|Môri]] in [[1566]], [[Yamanaka Shikanosuke]] approached Katsuhisa and convinced him to lead an effort to restore their clan. Katsuhisa fought for some time alongside Yamanaka in the Izumo-Bitchû area but was unable to make any lasting gains against the Môri. Defeated in [[Izumo province|Izumo]] at Nunobeyama in [[1570]], Katsuhisa and his supporters attempted a further penetration of the province in [[1573]]. This endeavor also ended without success. Katsuhisa next allied with [[Oda Nobunaga]], who by [[1577]] was at war with the Môri and pressing westward. Supported by [[Oda clan|Oda]] forces, Katsuhisa's men took [[Kozuki castle]] in [[Harima province|Harima]] ([[1578]]), which they intended to use as a base for further attacks on the Môri. Soon afterwards, however, a large Môri army arrived and surrounded Kokuzi. When Katsuhisa learned that Nobunaga was unable (or unwilling) to send a relief force, he committed suicide in exchange for the lives of his men. The Amako thereafter disappeared from the political map.