Saji Kazunari

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Saji Kazunari (佐治一成, Saji Kazunari^? 1569-September 26th, 1634) was a retainer beneath the clan of Oda throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Respectively a son to Saji Nobukata and nephew to Oda Nobunaga, Kazunari was favored by the latter and thus possessed a greater probability to receive additional benefit as he presently served under the Oda's secondary successor, Oda Nobukatsu. While initially supporting Nobuo in vassalship, Ono castle of Owari province served as Kazunari's domain. Following Nobunaga's death in the year of 1582, Kazunari chose to attach himself to the likes of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who in return gave him the younger sister of his chief concubine in marriage and made Kazunari head warden over one of his primary castles.^[1] However, Kazunari decided to throw in a gamble by the year of 1584 as he joined the side of Tokugawa Ieyasu and his former master Nobuo in the Komaki-Nagakute Campaign against the forces of Hideyoshi. To Kazunari's excruciating detriment, his respective side ended with defeat, which subsequently resulted in the seizing of his wife and the stripping of every domain and position that had been formerly established to his name. He then went on to serve Oda Nobukane with a 5,000-koku fief in the province of Ise.