was a Japanese ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominall ...

'' of the early

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 character ...

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Early life

His childhood name was Shintarō (新太郎).He was the son of Ikeda Toshitaka with Tsuruhime, daughter of Sakakibara Yasumasa and adopted daughter of

Tokugawa Hidetada was the second ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623. He was the third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate. Early life (1579–1593) Tokugawa Hidetada was bo ...

.He married Katsuhime, daughter of

Honda Tadatoki was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the early Edo period. Tadatoki was born as the eldest son of Honda Tadamasa. His mother Kumahime was a granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga. In 1616, Tadatoki married Senhime, another granddaughter o ...

with Senhime who was daughter of

with

Oeyo , , or : 1573 – September 15, 1626) was a prominently-placed female figure in the Azuchi–Momoyama period and early Edo period. She was daughter of Oichi and the sister of Yodo-dono and Ohatsu. When she rose to higher political status during ...

and

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fello ...

's favorite granddaughter.

Family

* Father: Ikeda Toshitaka (1584-1616) * Mother: Tsuruhime (d.1672) * Wife: Katsuhime (1618-1678) * Concubines: ** Mizuno Katsunoshin's daughter ** Okuni no Kata * Children: **

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by Katsuhime ** Jiunin married Honda Tadahira by Katsuhime ** Seigen’in (1636-1717) married Ichijo Norisuke by Katsuhime ** Daughter married Sakakibara Masafusa by Katsuhime ** daughter married Nakagawa Hisatsune by Katsuhime ** Ikeda Masakoto (1645-1700) by Mizuno Katsunoshin's daughter ** Ikeda Terutoshi (1649-1714) by Okuni no Kata ** Rokuhime (1645-1680) married Ikeda Yoshisada latre married Takikawa Kazumune by Okuni no Kata ** Shichihime (1647-1652) by Okuni no Kata ** Kiyohime (1653-1686) married Mori Moritsuna by Okuni no Kata ** daughter (1657-1662) by Okuni no Kata

Daimyo

After his father's death in 1616, Mitsumasa inherited his father's domains in

Harima Province or Banshū (播州) was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture. Harima bordered on Tajima, Tanba, Settsu, Bizen, and Mimasaka Provinces. Its capital was Himeji. During t ...

. In 1617, he was transferred to

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(325,000 ''

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'') with

Inaba Province was an old province of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Tottori Prefecture. It was sometimes called . Inaba bordered on Harima, Hōki, Mimasaka, and Tajima Provinces. The ancient capital, and the castle town, were at Tott ...

and Hōki Province as fiefs. In 1632, he was transferred to

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Early life

Family

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