Toki Yorinari

In this Japanese name, the surname is Toki.

Toki Yorinari (土岐 頼芸, 1502–1582), also known as Toki Yoriaki,[1] was a Japanese samurai warrior of in the Sengoku period. He was shugo of Mino Province.[2] He may be equivalent to Toki Yoshiyori (土岐 頼芸, 1502–1583), also described as a Japanese samurai warrior of in the Sengoku period.[3]

Yoshiyori was a son of Toki Masafusa.[3] After the death of his father, Yoshiyori became head of the Toki clan in Mino Province. He had Ōkuwa Castle built.[3]

Yorinari was the father of Toki Jirō who was killed by Saitō Dōsan.,[2] Yoshiyori was rumoured to be the real father of Toki Yoshitatsu (1527–1561), who went into exile in 1542.[4] Yorinari was forced out of Mino by Saitō Dōsan.[2]

See also

• Toki clan

References

1. "Toki clan" at Sengoku-expo.net; retrieved 2013-5-10.
2. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Saitō Dōsan" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 809.
3. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Toki," Nobiliare du Japon, p. 61; retrieved 2013-5-9.
4. Fróis, Luís (1976). Historia de Japam, Vol. I, p. 174. (in Portuguese)

Further reading

• Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Toki", Nobiliare du Japon, p. 61.