was a Japanese

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of 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 ...

, who served the

Imagawa clan was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Seiwa Genji by way of the Kawachi Genji. It was a branch of the Minamoto clan by the Ashikaga clan. Origins Ashikaga Kuniuji, grandson of Ashikaga Yoshiuji, established himself in ...

of Suruga. He was the lord of Hikuma Castle, and claimed the court title '' Buzen no kami''. Noritsura's service to the Imagawa clan was during the life of

Imagawa Yoshimoto was a Japanese ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the Sengoku period. Based in Suruga Province, he was known as ; he was one of the three ''daimyō'' that dominated the Tōkaidō region. He died in 1560 while marching to Kyoto to become Shogun. He ...

. During the Eishō era (1504–1521), Noritsura built Hikuma Castle, and received it and 10,000 ''

koku The is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. One koku is equivalent to 10 or approximately , or about of rice. It converts, in turn, to 100 shō and 1,000 gō. One ''gō'' is the traditional volume of a single serving of rice (before co ...

'' of territory around it as a personal fief. He died at the Battle of Okehazama in 1560. Noritsura's son was Iio Tsuratatsu.

References

"Suruga Iio-shi" on Harimaya.com
(9 July 2008)
Hamamatsu Castle website
(9 July 2008) 1560 deaths Samurai Daimyo Japanese warriors killed in battle Year of birth unknown {{samurai-stub