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 nominal ...

'' 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 ...

. He was famed for his forbidding of '' junshi'', the form of traditional suicide whereby a retainer followed his lord in death. It was because of this dislike for ''junshi'' that one of his favorite retainers Yamamoto Tsunetomo went after his death to pen the '' Hagakure''.

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1632 births 1700 deaths Daimyo Samurai {{daimyo-stub