was a Japanese

samurai The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...

during the

Sengoku period The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...

. He was the head of the

Yūki clan is a Japanese samurai kin group.Edmond Papinot, Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Yūki," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', pp. 71–72 retrieved 2013-5-6. History The Yūki c ...

. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)
"Yūki"
in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 1066.

Early life

He was the son of

Yūki Masatomo Yuki, Yūki or Yuuki may refer to: Places * Yuki, Hiroshima (Jinseki), a town in Jinseki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan * Yuk ...

Daimyo

As clan leader, Masakatsu developed a code of provincial laws (''bunkoku-hō''). In 1556, he published .Nussbaum
"''Yūki-shi Hatto''" at p. 1067

References

Daimyo 1503 births 1559 deaths Yūki clan {{daimyo-stub