(1542–1604) was a samurai commander of the Suganuma clan during Japan's

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. Originally serving under the

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clan, until the year of 1560, Sadamitsu then entered the service of the Tokugawa. After years of loyal service to

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in battles such as Anegawa and Nagashino, in 1601 he was granted a 20,000-

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fief in

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. It is not fully clear whether Sadamitsu is the same person as

Suganuma Sadamichi was a samurai commander during Japan's Sengoku period, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu. He fought in the 1570 Battle of Anegawa against Asai clan and Asakura clan The is a Japanese kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d ...

who lived around the same time.

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