Sassa Narimasa (佐々成政?) (February 6, 1536-July 7, 1588) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku through Azuchi-Momoyama period. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio Events 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death 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 [1] Famous for his tenure as lord of Etchu Province. was an old province in central Honshū, on the Sea of Japan side Was granted a fief in Kyushu, but due to difficulties in suppressing local revolt, he was beheaded in 1588. [2] His daughter married kuge Takatsukasa Nobufusa and they had a son Nobuhisa. The kuge (公家 was a Japanese Aristocratic class that dominated the Japanese imperial court in Kyoto until the rise of the was a court noble ( Kuge) of the early Edo period. Born to Nijo Haruyoshi and adopted by Takatsukasa Tadafuyu he revived the lineage of the son of Nobufusa, was a Kugyo or Japanese court noble of the early Edo period (1603–1868 [3]