Born a son of Ukita Naoie, lord of Bizen (Okayama).
His father died and he succeeded as a child. Doted on by Hashiba Hideyoshi, he was raised almost as Hideyoshi's adopted son.
Around this time he married Gōhime, Maeda Toshiie's daughter adopted by Hideyoshi (year debated), and became a great lord ruling Bizen, Mimasaka and more.
In the Bunroku campaign he served as supreme commander of the army in Korea.
Still young, he became one of the Five Elders of the Toyotomi government.
A feud among his retainers (the Ukita disturbance) broke out, and many senior vassals left the house.
As a mainstay of the West he fought Fukushima Masanori's army hard but was defeated. Escaping the field, he was sheltered by the Shimazu in Satsuma.
The Shimazu handed him over to the shogunate; through the mediation of the Shimazu and Maeda his life was spared.
He was exiled to Hachijōjima in Izu. Rice and other goods sent by the Maeda, his wife Gōhime's family, sustained his life on the island.
After nearly fifty years on Hachijōjima he died there—one of the longest-lived of all the lords who fought at Sekigahara.
Maeda ToshiieFukushima Masanori
Tachibana MuneshigeKuroda NagamasaYodo-donoItō MancioHasekura TsunenagaYuki HideyasuKobayakawa HideakiToyotomi Hideyori
People of the Sengoku/Azuchi-Momoyama period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.