Mizuno Katsushige
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In this Japanese name, the family name is "Mizuno".
Mizuno Katsushige (水野 勝成) (1564–1651) was a daimyo during the late Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan.
The son of Mizuno Tadashige, he had in his younger years served Sasa Narimasa, for whom he fought in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Kyushu Campaign in 1587, Kato Kiyomasa, Konishi Yukinaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, for whom he fought in in the Siege of Osaka in 1615. Subsequently he was granted daimyoship first over Yamato's Koriyama Castle and later of Bingo's Fukuyama Castle.