Murai Sadakatsu
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Murai Sadakatsu (村井貞勝? 1528 - June 21, 1582) was a senior retainer beneath the Oda clan throughout the late Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. As Sadakatsu was conjectively remarkable as a full-fledged samurai, within the many variable battles fought under Oda Nobunaga, the latter considered him as a man of both respect and honor, and thus entrusted Sadakatsu with administrative duties, whenever the need would arise. Following the time at which Nobunaga effectively seized Capital Kyoto after subjugating the treacherous Ashikaga Yoshiaki in 1573, immediate preparations were made that would result in the re-construction of the Imperial Palace of Kyoto. Sadakatsu and Nichijo Shonin were specifically chosen by Nobunaga as the superintendents of this essential project, resulting in the construction of a large number of palaces, merely following three years of time -- a resolution largely by means of Sadakatsu's conviction as Chief Administrator of Kyoto. As Sadakatsu thus remained within the capital as Kyoto's governor, his respective lord would lead his army to the province of Echizen, at which Sadakatsu consistently reported to Nobunaga any such incident--via written letter--that would be deemed as detrimental to the capital's economy, and thus the people remained content and prosperous. Murai Sadakatsu died in 1582, during the Incident at Honnō-ji.
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- Sources of Japanese Tradition Copyright(c) William Theodore De Bary, Yoshiko Kurata Dykstra
- Murai Sadakatsu - SamuraiWiki. (Samurai Archives) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
