was a Japanese
daimyo
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 nominally to ...
of
Gamō clan
The was a Christian Japanese clan prominent during the Sengoku Period which claimed descent from the Fujiwara clan.
Gamō clan heads (before taking Gamō name)
# Fujiwara no Hidesato
# Fujiwara Chitsuji
# Fujiwara Senkiyo
# Fujiwara Yorikiyo
# ...
, a family of Christian daimyo from northern Honshu, during the
Sengoku period
The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...
through
Azuchi–Momoyama period
The was the final phase of the in Japanese history from 1568 to 1600.
After the outbreak of the Ōnin War in 1467, the power of the Ashikaga Shogunate effectively collapsed, marking the start of the chaotic Sengoku period. In 1568, Oda Nob ...
s. Katahide, the eldest son of Gamō Sadahide, was a retainer of the
Rokkaku clan
The was a Japanese samurai clan. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)">DF 53 of 80">"Rokkaku" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 49 retrieved 2013-4-3 ...
and later
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