Shiina Yasutane
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Shiina Yasutane (椎名 康胤, died March 1576) was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period, who was lord of the of Etchū Province. Throughout the 1550s and 1560s he led numerous attacks on the , and in one of the few documented cases of two generals engaging personally in combat on the field, Yasutane fought with the head of the Jinbo clan, Jinbō Nagamoto, in 1554, at the . During this particular clash, he was slashed across the jaw by Nagamoto, which left him with lifelong disfigurement. He is believed to have been assassinated in 1576 by Kojima Motoshige, on the orders of Uesugi Kenshin.
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- Abe, Yoshichiro "Sengoku no Kassen Zenroku" (戦国の合戦全録) Japan, 1973
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- Daimyo
- 1576 deaths
- Shiina clan
- Samurai stubs