- Imagawa Ujizane
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1538 -January 27 ,1615 was a Japanesedaimyo who lived from the mid-Sengoku through earlyEdo period s. He was the son ofImagawa Yoshimoto , and the father ofImagawa Norimochi andShinagawa Takahisa .Early life
Ujizane was born in
Sunpu ; he was the eldest son ofImagawa Yoshimoto . In 1554, he married the daughter ofHōjō Ujitsuna as a means of cementing the three-way alliance between the Imagawa, Takeda, and Hōjō clans. Ujizane inherited family headship in 1558, when his father retired in order to focus his attention on the Imagawa advance into Tōtōmi andMikawa Province s. [Stephen Turnbull, "Samurai: The World of the Warrior" (London: Osprey Publishing, 2003), p. 224.]Fall of the Imagawa clan
After Yoshimoto's death Imagawa Ujizane was attacked by Shingen and Ieyasu. Ujizane later retaliated at the Takeda army by stopping supplying them with salt. This had little effect because Kenshin Uesugi took the opportunity to sell salt to the Takeda, and only resulted in the downfall of the
Imagawa clan . Like his father he also enjoyed playingKemari .Later Years and Death
The Imagawa family was summoned by
Tokugawa Ieyasu and made Tokugawa retainers, with the rank ofkōke . Ujizane died at the family estate inShinagawa in 1615.References
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