Shimazu Yoshihisa
島津善久
Shimazu Clan
Bushō
Satsuma Province
Lifespan: Ōnin 2 (1468) to 4/18 of Meiō 3 (1494)
Other Names: Kikusaburō, Matashirō, Tadashin
Rank: bushō
Title: Mutsu-no-kami (informal)
Clan: Shimazu-Izaku
Father: Shimazu Hisayasu
Wife: [Formal] Tokiwa (daughter of Niiro Korehisa)
Children: Daughter (wife of Yoshida 位清), daughter (wife of Shimazu Masahisa), Tadayoshi
Shimazu Yoshihisa served as a bushō during the Sengoku period. Yoshihisa was the ninth head of the Shimazu-Izaku family, a cadet family of the Shimazu clan of Satsuma Province.
In 1468, Yoshihisa was born as the eldest son of Shimazu Hisayasu, the eighth head of the Shimazu-Izaku family. After the death of his father-in-law, Niiro Korehisa, Yoshihisa succeeded him and adopted the name of Niiro Tadashin.
In 1494, Yoshihisa was murdered by a manservant who tended to horses. He was twenty-seven years old.
