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* ''Birth: [[1565]]''
* ''Death: [[1613]]''
* ''Titles: Harima no kami, Shinano no kami, Yamato no kami''
* ''Sons: [[Koide Yoshihide]] ([[1586]]-[[1668]]), [[Koide Yoshichika|Koide ''Ise no kami'' Yoshichika]]''
Yoshimasa was the son of [[Koide Hideharu]] and the nephew of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] wife. At first the lord of [[Tatsuno castle]] in [[Harima province]], he was granted 53,000 koku worth of land in [[Tajima province]] in [[1595]] following Hideyoshi's censure of a number of [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu|Toyotomi Hidetsugu's]] intimates. He sided with [[Ishida Mitsunari]] during the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] ([[1600]]) and joined in the [[siege of Tanabe]] in Tajima. After Mitsunari was defeated, Yoshimasa kept his lands thanks to the efforts of his younger brother [[Koide Hideie]], who had fought on the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] side.
==References==
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