was a Japanese ''
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 ...
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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 ...
. In his lifetime, he was the head of the
Itō clan
The are a Japanese clan of ''gōzoku'' that claimed descent from the Fujiwara clan through Fujiwara Korekimi (727–789) and Kudō Ietsugu. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papin ...
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In 1538, he became the head of the Itō clan.
In 1542, he restored his old territory occupied by the Shimazu clan.
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He was defeated by Shimazu Yoshihiro in the 1572 Battle of Kizaki.] Yoshisuke capitulated to the advancing Shimazu clan in 1576 and sought refuge with the Otomo clan.[ then he defeated by ]Shimazu Yoshihisa
was a powerful ''daimyō'' and the 16th Chief of Shimazu clan of Satsuma Province, the eldest son of Shimazu Takahisa. He is a renowned as a great general, who managed to subjugate Kyushu through the deft maneuvering of his three brothers. Eventu ...
in Siege of Takabaru
The siege of Takabaru occurred in October 1576 when the forces of Shimazu Yoshihisa besieged and took the fortress of Takabaru, which belonged to the Itō clan.
The Shimazu family had by the 1570s started its rise as the dominant power in Kyūsh ...
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Yoshisuke, who was the descendant of Itō Suketsune
Itō may refer to:
*Itō (surname), a Japanese surname
*Itō, Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
*Ito District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
See also
* Itô's lemma, used in stochastic calculus
*Itoh–Tsujii inversion algorithm, in field theory ...
. He inherited Agata Domain Agata may refer to:
* AGATA (organization), a Lithuanian non-profit performing rights organization
Name
* Agata (given name)
* Agata (surname)
Places
*Agata Station, a train station in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Physics
* AGATA (gamm ...
in Hyūga Province
was an old province of Japan on the east coast of Kyūshū, corresponding to the modern Miyazaki Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Hyūga''" in . It was sometimes called or . Hyūga bordered on Bungo, Higo, Ōsumi, and Sats ...
in 1584.
References
Daimyo
1512 births
1585 deaths
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