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{{Japanese name|Ban}}
{{nihongo|'''Ban Naoyuki'''|塙 直之||1567 &ndash; May 26, 1615}}, also known as {{nihongo|'''Ban Dan'emon'''|塙 団右衛門}}, was a Japanese samurai general of the late [[Sengoku]] and early [[Edo period]]s. He first served as a retainer of [[Katō Yoshiaki]], one of the "[[Seven Spears of Shizugatake]]", who went on to become lord of the [[Aizu Domain|Aizu]] domain, in Mutsu. Naoyuki served Lord Katō as a gunnery commander (''teppō-taishō''). 

Naoyuki followed his lord during the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)|invasion of Korea in the 1590s]], and for his actions in combat there he was given a stipend of 350 ''[[koku]]''. However, at the [[Battle of Sekigahara]] in 1600, he opposed Yoshiaki's orders and subsequently left his service. After that, he served several lords, including [[Kobayakawa Hideaki]], [[Matsudaira Tadayoshi]], and [[Fukushima Masanori]]; however, as his former lord Yoshiaki was a hindrance, Naoyuki entered the priesthood for a time.

He served the [[Toyotomi clan]] at the [[Siege of Osaka|Osaka Winter Campaign]] in 1614. However, during the next year's Summer Campaign, he was killed in action fighting [[Asano Nagaakira]]'s forces in [[Izumi province]].

==References==
*[http://tikugo.cool.ne.jp/osaka/busho/toyotomi/b-ban.html Ban Dan'emon Shōkai (in Japanese)]
*[http://www.geocities.jp/senryusai/senryusai.ban.html Ban Dan'emon Retsuden (in Japanese)]

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