was a Japanese samurai of 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 ...

, who served the Hatakeyama clan of Noto province. In 1551, when the chief retainers of the Hatakeyama had forced

Hatakeyama Yoshitsugu or Hatakeyama Yoshitsugu was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period, who was the 14th head of the Nihonmatsu clan (a branch of the Hatakeyama clan) of Mutsu. In 1568, Yoshitsugu was attacked by Date Terumune, the father of the famous Da ...

to retire in favor of his son, Yoshitsuna, Mitsunobu emerged as an ally of both. In 1555, the Hatakeyama had restored their authority to some extent, thanks to Mitsunobu's work as an administrator. He became a monk in 1572, taking the name . Beyond this, the rest of his life remains obscure.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20071214073919/http://www15.ocn.ne.jp/~nanao/person/igawa_mitsunobu.html (24 March 2008) *https://web.archive.org/web/20090109231534/http://www15.ocn.ne.jp/~nanao/tousyu.html (24 March 2008) *http://www.geocities.jp/yuujirou8/siro/Gallery-8-1-tatakai1.html (24 March 2008) *http://www2.harimaya.com/sengoku/html/tyou_k.html (24 March 2008) Samurai Japanese Buddhist clergy 16th-century Japanese people Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{samurai-stub