Ii Naomasa

Ii Naomasa (井伊 直政) (March 4, 1561 - March 24,1602) was a general under the Sengoku period Daimyo, and later Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu. His family, like Tokugawa's, had originally been retainers of the once-powerful Imagawa clan, and Naomasa, then a very small child, was personally lucky to escape death in the confusion and general chaos which followed the death of the clan's leader, Imagawa Yoshimoto, in the Battle of Okehazama in 1560. Naomasa joined the ranks of the Tokugawa clan in the mid 1570s, rising swiftly through the ranks to eventually become the master of a sizable holding in Ômi Province, following the Battle of Sekigahara (1600).

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March 4 - 1561 - March 24 - 1602 - Sengoku period - Daimyo - Shogun - Tokugawa Ieyasu - Imagawa - Imagawa Yoshimoto - Battle of Okehazama - Ômi Province - Battle of Sekigahara

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