Way back in 1587, Kato Kiyomasa managed to transit from the Warring States period to the Azuchimomoyama era (安土桃山時代) without being killed、so the new Shogun, 織田信長 (Oda Nobunaga), sent Kato to invade Korea along with a compatriot, Konishi Yukinaga (小西 行長, pictured below, rockin’ that yoroi - to say the two didn’t get along would be an understatement) in the expectation that they wouldn’t return, but when they did, Nobunaga gifted Kato with the far-flung province of Higo - northern Higo, to be precise, as Nobunaga had also gifted southern Kumamoto (now Uto) to Konishi. Perhaps Nobunaga was hoping the two would kill themselves off. But they didn’t, and Kato outlasted Konishi and united the province. - William