was a Japanese ''
daimyō'' of the
Edo period who served the
Tokugawa clan. He was also known as Ii Naotsugu. His childhood name was Manchiyo (万千代). Naokatsu succeeded to family headship following his father's death in 1602. Under
Tokugawa Ieyasu's orders, Naokatsu completed construction of
Hikone Castle in 1606, and then moved there from
Sawayama Castle when it was largely completed. In 1614, as Naokatsu was ill, he sent his brother Naotaka to fight in the
Siege of Osaka; Naokatsu himself was assigned to Annaka, where he undertook security duty in the Kantō region. After the siege of Osaka, Tokugawa Ieyasu rewarded Naokatsu's younger brother
Naotaka with the Ii family headship, and allowed Naokatsu to form a branch family with holdings at the fief of
Annaka
240px, Edo-period Usui Magistrate’s office in Annaka
is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 47,911 in 24,749 households, and a population density of 210 persons per km². The total area of the ...
in
Kōzuke Province, worth 30,000 ''koku''. Naokatsu retired in 1632, yielding headship to his son Naoyoshi. He died in
Ōmi Province in 1662.
His descendants were moved around several times before having their holdings settle at
Itoigawa, in
Echigo Province
was an old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan. It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kōzuke, Shinano, and Etchū Provinces. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Echigo''" in . It corresponds today to Niigata ...
.
Family
* Father:
Ii Naomasa
* Mother:
Tobai-in
* Wives:
**
Torii Tadamasa’s daughter
** Nakazima Shinzaemon's daughter
* Children:
**
Ii Naoyoshi by Nakazima Shinzaemon's daughter
** daughter married Ii Naoshige
Title
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References
"Annaka-han" on ''Edo 300 HTML''(6 July 2008)
*Naramoto Tatsuya (1992). ''Nihon no kassen: Monoshiri jiten''. (Tokyo:Shufu-to-seikatsusha).
1590 births
1662 deaths
Fudai daimyo
Ii clan
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