Ina Tadatsugu

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Ina Tadatsugu (伊奈忠次, Ina Tadatsugu^?) (1550-1610) was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Serving under the right arm of Takeda Katsuyori as a civil officer of moderate ability, it is highly speculated that Tadatsugu lent his service to the reputed Tokugawa Ieyasu by the 1582 Invasion of Kai Province, at which he would still hold the same respective military office. Either way, Tadatsugu was born into a warrior family within the province of Mikawa, and was nonetheless inclined to support the latter. Following the Odawara Campaign of 1590, Tadatsugu was awarded with a 13,000-koku fief at the Konosu District of Musashi Province, which was delegated to him either by his lord, or that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who presently held a level of authority over the Tokugawa. Regardless whether who was the provider of this delegation, Tadatsugu was nonetheless additionally made to be a head administrator over the Kanto Region's granary lands, placing him at a higher level of civil authority in result. During the Sekigahara Campaign of 1600, Tadatsugu's service beneath his respective lord would be re-furnished by the death of Hideyoshi, and he would personally earn from his lord a high means of respect after handling the transporation of the Eastern force's supplies throughout this campaign. With the beginning of the Edo Period, Tadatsugu continued to support his respective lord as a very high ranked civil administrator beneath the Tokugawa Bakufu, and at very short length was promoted by Ieyasu to the rank of 'Kanto Gundai', which thus gave him jusridictional control over the eight provinces that were present to the east of Capital Edo. At this same present time, Tadatusugu held the rank of 'Daikan' within Kai Province, therefore allowing him control over an assessed koku sum of 1,000,000. Additionally taking part within multiple public work projects for the remainder of his life, Tadatsugu died by the year of 1610, where it is easily speculated that the rationale behind such a death was nothing less then a consequence to old age.