was a Japanese

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...

warrior and

Date clan The is a Japanese samurai kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Date", ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 5 retrieved 2013-5-5. History The Date family was founded ...

leader during the

Sengoku period The was a period in History of Japan, Japanese history of near-constant civil war and social upheaval from 1467 to 1615. The Sengoku period was initiated by the Ōnin War in 1467 which collapsed the Feudalism, feudal system of Japan under the ...

Biography

He was born as the eldest son of

Date Hisamune Date or dates may refer to: *Date (fruit), the fruit of the date palm (''Phoenix dactylifera'') Social activity *Dating, a form of courtship involving social activity, with the aim of assessing a potential partner ** Group dating *Play date, a ...

. His childhood name was Jiro (次郎). At the death of his father, he became ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and n ...

'' of

Mutsu Province was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori Prefectures and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture. Mutsu Province is also known as or . The term is often used to refer to the comb ...

. In 1536, he promulgated the Date provincial code ('' Jinkaishū''). Tanemune's attempt to have

Uesugi Sadazane was a Japanese samurai ''daimyō'' of the Muromachi period. He was ''shugo'' or military governor of Echigo Province.Goldsmith, Brian. (2008)''Amassing Economies: The Medieval Origins of Early Modern Japan'', p. 183 See also * Uesugi clan ...

, the childless head of the

Uesugi Uesugi (sometimes written ''Uyesugi'') is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: People *Uesugi clan, a Japanese samurai clan **Uesugi Akisada, (1454–1510), a samurai of the Uesugi clan **Uesugi Harunori (1751–1822), a Jap ...

, adopt Sanemoto and make him his heir, sparked a civil war within the Date known as the from 1542 to 1548 which resulted in Tanemune's replacement as clan head by his eldest son, Harumune.Miyagi (1957), p. 376

Family

* Father: Date Hisamune (1453–1514) * Mother: Sensu'in (d. 1513) * Wife: Teishin'in * Concubines: ** Nakajo-dono ** Shimodate-dono ** Nakadate-dono ** Watari-dono ** Bo-dono * Children: ** daughter married Souma Akitane by Teishin'in ** daughter by Teishin'in ** daughter married Ashina Moriuji **

Date Harumune was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period.Date Sanemoto was a Japanese samurai and commander of the Sengoku period. He was the third son of Date Tanemune His son Date Shigezane was also an important vassal of the Date clan. Date Tanemune tried to adopt him to the Uesugi clan The is a Japanese s ...

(1527–1587) by Nakajo-dono ** daughter married Nikaido Teruyuki by Shimodate-dono ** daughter married Tamura Takaaki by Shimodate-dono ** Date Munetoshi by Shimodate-dono ** Daughter married Kakketa Toshimune by Shimodate-dono ** Yanagawa Munekiyo (1532–1605) by Nakadate-dono ** Ogata Yasuaji by Nakadate-dono ** Watari Motomune (1530–1594) by Watari-dono ** Watari Tsunamune by Watari-dono ** Kori Munesada by Bo-dono ** Kasai Ushisarumaru by Bo-dono ** Gorakuin Munesake by Bo-dono ** Date Shichiro by Bo-dono ** Kosugo gozen married

Sōma Yoshitane (1558-1635) Sōma Yoshitane (1548–1635) was the 16th hereditary chieftain of the Sōma clan and a Sengoku period ''daimyō'' with territories covering the three districts forming the northern Hamadōri region of southern Mutsu Province.Monogatari: Hanshi V ...

by Bo-dono

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References

*Fukushima Prefecture (1969), ''Fukushima Kenshi, Vol. 1''. Fukushima Prefectural Government. *Miyagi Prefecture (1957), ''Miyagi Kenshi, Vol. 1''. Miyagi Kenshi Kankōkai. Daimyo 1488 births 1565 deaths Date clan {{daimyo-stub