(1757–1822) was a Japanese samurai of the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...

. A senior retainer of the

Sendai domain The , also known as the , was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871. The Sendai Domain was based at Aoba Castle in Mutsu Province, in the modern city of Sendai, located in the Tōhoku region of the i ...

, he was first known as Kagenaka (景仲) and Murayasu (村寿). Muratsune was the ninth

Katakura Kojūrō was the common name of the head of the Japanese Katakura clan, who served as senior retainers to the Date clan. Following the Date clan's move into Sendai han, they were granted holdings at Shiroishi Castle (12,000 ''koku'' in total), which th ...

. He was appointed as ''bugyō'' (the Sendai equivalent of a

Karō were top-ranking samurai officials and advisors in service to the ''daimyōs'' of feudal Japan. Overview In the Edo period, the policy of ''sankin-kōtai'' (alternate attendance) required each ''daimyō'' to place a ''karō'' in Edo and anothe ...

elder) in 1797. His childhood name was Shigegoro (繁五郎). On October 27, 1815, he fell ill, and resigned his position as ''bugyō'' in favor of his son Kagesada. Retired in 1817.

Family

* Father: Katakura Murakiyo * Mother: a Concubine * Children: **

Katakura Kagesada (1775-1840) was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period. A senior retainer of the Sendai domain. Kagesada was the tenth Katakura Kojūrō. His childhood name was Sannosuke (三之助) later Kojuro. His father was Katakura Muratsune and his son was K ...

** daughter married Date Munemitsu and Date Narikuni’s mother

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External links

Katakura family tree
(in Japanese)

(in Japanese) Samurai 1757 births 1822 deaths Karō Katakura clan {{samurai-stub