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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. Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce. 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 written history of Japan begins with brief references in the 1st century AD Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical texts 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. is the term for the military nobility of Pre-industrial Japan. ( June 23, 1534 &ndash June 21, 1582) was a major Daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history 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. was the 15th Shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573 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. was an old province of Japan, which is today the northern part of Fukui prefecture. Murai Sadakatsu died in 1582, during the Incident at Honnō-ji. The refers to the forced Suicide in June 21[[ 582]] of Japanese Daimyo Oda Nobunaga at the hands of his Samurai

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  1. Sources of Japanese Tradition Copyright(c) William Theodore De Bary, Yoshiko Kurata Dykstra
  2. Murai Sadakatsu - SamuraiWiki. (Samurai Archives) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005

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