So Yoshitoshi

Statue of Sô Yoshitoshi in the former buke yashiki (samurai households) district of Tsushima Fuchû (Izuhara).

Grave of Sô Yoshitoshi at Banshô-in temple on Tsushima

• Born: 1568
• Died: 1615
• Titles: Tsushima no kami
• Distinction: Lord of Tsushima
• Other Names: 万松院殿 (Banshô-in dono)
• Japanese: 宗 義智 (Sô Yoshitoshi)

Yoshitoshi was the 19th head of the Sô clan and the first Edo period lord of Tsushima han. The fourth son of Sô Masamori, he was a son-in-law of Konishi Yukinaga and succeeded to become head of the Sô house in 1588. Yoshitoshi served in the Korean Invasions under Yukinaga and later sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Sekigahara Campaign (1600), though he took no part in the fighting at Sekigahara.

Yoshitoshi later worked to restore normal relations with Korea. He eventually succeeded, with an official Korean embassy first arriving in 1607.

Upon his death in 1615, his son Sô Yoshinari became daimyô.

References

• Initial text from Sengoku Biographical Dictionary (Samurai-Archives.com) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005