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Hachisuka Masakatsu (蜂須賀正勝?), also Hachisuka Koroku (1526 – July 8, 1586) was a daimyo and retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Azuchi-Momoyama period of Japanese history. Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 The ( were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings The came at the end of the Warring States Period in Japan, when the political unification that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate took place The written history of Japan begins with brief references in the 1st century AD Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical texts He was the son of Hachisuka Masatoshi.

The Hachisuka clan were the kokujin of the Kaitō District of Owari Province (in present-day Ama District, Aichi Prefecture). The are descendants of Emperor Seiwa (850-880 and are a branch of the Ashikaga clan and the Shiba clan (Seiwa Genji The, also known as, were lords of smaller rural domains in feudal Japan. was an old province of Japan that is now the western half of present day Aichi Prefecture. Ama (海部郡 -gun is a district located in Aichi, Japan. As of 2003, the district has an estimated Population of 262688 and WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region. They controlled water transport on the Kiso River. The is a river in Japan roughly 227  Km long flowing through the prefectures of Nagano, Gifu, Aichi, and Mie before emptying Their knowledge of local terrain made them useful to the Oda and Saitō clans, although they remained independent of control of the powerful clans. The was a family of Japanese Daimyo who were to become an important political force in the unification of Japan in the mid-16th century The was a Japanese clan in Mino Province (present-day Gifu Prefecture) during the Sengoku period in the 16th century

Later, Masakatsu served Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and may have participated in the building of Sunomata Castle as well as the campaigns against the Mōri. is a Japanese castle in Ōgaki in Gifu Prefecture. It was constructed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the generals of Oda Nobunaga, while they Mōri Terumoto (毛利 輝元 January 22, 1553 &ndash April 27, 1625) was the son of Mōri Takamoto, fought against Toyotomi In 1585, Hideyoshi awarded him Awa Province as a fief, but he declined in favor of his son, Iemasa, serving instead as an intimate of Hideyoshi. Awa (阿波国 -no kuni was an old province of Japan in the area that is today a part of Tokushima prefecture on Shikoku. ( 1558 - February 2, 1639) was a Japanese Daimyo of the early Edo period.

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Preceded by
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Hachisuka family head
??-1585
Succeeded by
Hachisuka Iemasa
The are descendants of Emperor Seiwa (850-880 and are a branch of the Ashikaga clan and the Shiba clan (Seiwa Genji ( 1558 - February 2, 1639) was a Japanese Daimyo of the early Edo period.
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