was a warlord of the Japanese province of
Yamato
was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan.
Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan.
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during 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 ...
of the 16th century. Junshō was the son of
Tsutsui Junkō. Through one time in the Sengoku Period, Junshō was destined to ascend to the position of ''
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 ...
'' over the province of Yamato.
Junshō's death was kept secret for three years. A blind monk from
Nara
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named Mokuami, whose physical appearance resembled Junshō, was used as a puppet to conceal his death. Meanwhile, Junshō's son
Tsutsui Junkei
son of Tsutsui Junshō, and a ''daimyō'' of the province of Yamato. On 1571, Junkei, through the offices of Akechi Mitsuhide, pledged to service of Oda Nobunaga.
Military life
Early in his career, in 1565, Matsunaga Hisahide, one of the most ...
has grown up and took his father's position. Mokuami, who has no value any more, was sent back to Nara as an ordinary priest.
Daimyo
1523 births
1550 deaths
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