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A number of letters from Yukimura's time in Kudoyama exist, written to his brother or family retainers.  Among other things, he said he was learning and enjoying ''renga'', "linked poems" composed in turn in a group, though it was difficult as he had started late.  His father Masayuki died in Kudoyama in 1611.

A number of letters from Yukimura's time in Kudoyama exist, written to his brother or family retainers.  Among other things, he said he was learning and enjoying ''renga'', "linked poems" composed in turn in a group, though it was difficult as he had started late.  His father Masayuki died in Kudoyama in 1611.

Like Masayuki, Yukimura apparently found life in Kudoyama difficult.  In 1614 [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] started gathering ronin to support him against Ieyasu, and Yukimura responded. He slipped out of Kudoyama in the tenth month and went to [[Osaka castle|Ôsaka Castle]], where he became a leader. He built a barricade, the "Sanada-[[Castle terms|maru]]" on the southeast  corner of the castle (the present Sanada-yama Park), which took the brunt of the fighting in the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]]. When Ieyasu attacked the next year during the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]] the Osaka position was hopeless.  Yukinaga attacked Ieyasu's positon at Tennô-ji and succeeded in getting near, but was beaten back.  He finally was killed, exhausted, by 西尾久作 Nishio Hisasaku (?), a retainer of [[Matsudaira Tadanao]] of [[Echizen province]] on 5/7. Yukimura's son Daisuke, who had lived in Kudoyama with his father, was also killed in the fighting.

Like Masayuki, Yukimura apparently found life in Kudoyama difficult.  In 1614 [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] started gathering ronin to support him against Ieyasu, and Yukimura responded. He slipped out of Kudoyama in the tenth month and went to [[Osaka castle|Ôsaka Castle]], where he became a leader. He built a barricade, the "Sanada-[[Castle terms|maru]]" on the southeast  corner of the castle (the present Sanada-yama Park), which took the brunt of the fighting in the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]]. When Ieyasu attacked the next year during the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]] the Osaka position was hopeless.  Yukinaga attacked Ieyasu's positon at Tennô-ji and succeeded in getting near, but was beaten back.  He finally was killed, exhausted, by 西尾久作 Nishio Hisasaku (?), a retainer of [[Matsudaira Tadanao]] of [[Echizen province]] on 5/7. Yukimura's son Daisuke, who had lived in Kudoyama with his father, was also killed in the fighting, though it is also said that he killed himself the next day with Hideyori and [[Yodo-gimi]] (as is stated in the explanations in the Osaka Castle Museum).

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