, also known as Inaba Ittetsu (稲葉一鉄), was a Japanese

samurai The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...

warrior 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 ...

. He served the

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Mino province was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today southern Gifu Prefecture. Mino was bordered by Ōmi to the west, Echizen and Hida to the north, Shinano to the east, and Ise, Mikawa, and Owari to the south. Its abbreviated fo ...

. Later, he became a retainer of

Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. He was the and regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. He is sometimes referred as the "Demon Daimyō" and "Demo ...

. His childhood name was Hikoshiro () later Hikoroku (). Yoshimichi was considered one of the , along with Andō Michitari and Ujiie Bokuzen. In 1567, they agreed together to join the forces of

. He took part in the

Siege of Inabayama Castle The of 1567 was the final battle in Oda Nobunaga's campaign to defeat the Saitō clan in their Japanese castle#Architecture and defenses, mountaintop castle and conquer Mino Province, Japan. It was a short, two-week siege, fought between 13 ...

(1567) and participated in the

Battle of Anegawa The Sengoku period (30 July 1570) occurred near Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province, Japan, between the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, against the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans. It is notable as the first battle t ...

(1570), leading the reserve troops of Oda Nobunaga's forces. Later, he fought in the Siege of Ishiyama-Honganji, Siege of Ichijodani Castle, Siege of Nagashima,

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, and Kaga campaign under

Shibata Katsuie or was a Japanese samurai and military commander during the Sengoku period. He was retainer of Oda Nobuhide. He served Oda Nobunaga as one of his trusted generals, was severely wounded in the 1571 first siege of Nagashima, but then fought ...

. His son,

Inaba Masanari , also known as Inaba Masashige and sometimes known as ''Mino-no-kami'', was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period. He served the Oda, Toyotomi, and Tokugawa clans, and became a ''daimyō'' in the early Edo p ...

, was the husband of Saitō Fuku. Ittetsu himself lived and went into the service of

Hideyoshi Toyotomi , otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: ...

, serving at the

Battle of Shizugatake The took place during the Sengoku period of Japan between Toyotomi Hideyoshi (then Hashiba Hideyoshi) and Shibata Katsuie in Nagahama, Shiga, Shizugatake, Ōmi Province over a period of two days beginning on the 20th day of the fourth month of ...

and the Battle of Komaki-Nagakute before dying in 1589.

Family

* Father: Inaba Michinori * Mother: Isshiki Yoshito's daughter * Wife: Sanjonishi Saneki's daughter * Concubine: daughter of Kanou Family * Children: ** daughter married Horiichi Hannosuke ** daughter married Kunie Shigemoto ** Inaba Shigemichi (died 1598) by daughter of Kanou Family ** Inaba Sadamichi (1546–1603) by Sanjonishi Saneki's daughter ** Inaba Naomasa ** Inaba Masamichi (1566–1640) ** Yasuhime married Saito Toshimitsu ** daughter married Marumo Kanetoshi ** daughter married Yamamura Yoshikatsu

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ittetsu, Inaba Samurai 1515 births 1588 deaths Inaba clan