Yoshimi

The Yoshimi were a warrior family descended from Minamoto no Noriyori. Their Iwami branch built a power base around Tsuwano and competed with the neighboring Masuda family.

Yoshimi Masayori inherited the family in 1540 and resisted Sue Takafusa after the latter killed Ōuchi Yoshitaka in 1551. Besieged at Sanbonmatsu Castle in 1554, he made peace, then joined the Mōri assault on Yamaguchi in 1557. The family later served the Mōri, but Yoshimi Hironaga was executed on suspicion of treason in the early Edo period.