Sadamichi Inaba

Japanese: 稲葉貞通 - いなば・さだみち

Year of death: September 3, 1603 (October 7, 1603)
Year of birth: Tenbun 15 (1546)
A military commander in the Azuchi-Momoyama period. The eldest son of Inaba Ittetsu (Yoshimichi). His mother was the daughter of Sanjonishi Kimijo. He was commonly known as Hikoroku. He was called Ukyo no jo. In 1579 (Tensho 7), he took over from his father and became the lord of Sone Castle in Mino, and served Oda Nobunaga, achieving military success in various places. After the Honnoji Incident (1582), he joined Toyotomi Hideyoshi along with his father, and participated in the sieges of Ise and Kyushu. In 1582, he moved to Gujo Hachiman Castle, where he was called Hashiba Gujo Jijū. In the Battle of Sekigahara (1600), he joined the Western Army and took refuge in Inuyama Castle in Owari, but after the fall of Oda Hidenobu's Gifu Castle, he surrendered to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and was ordered to fight in the subsequent sieges of Nagashima in Ise and Minakuchi Castle in Omi, and after the war, he was transferred to Usuki in Bungo with a fief of 50,000 koku.

(Tetsuo Owada)

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没年：慶長8.9.3(1603.10.7)
生年：天文15(1546)
安土桃山時代の武将。稲葉一鉄(良通)の長男。母は三条西公条の娘。通称彦六。右京亮を称した。天正7(1579)年,父の譲りをうけて美濃曾根城主となり,織田信長に仕えて各地で戦功をあげた。本能寺の変(1582)後,父と共に豊臣秀吉に属し,伊勢攻め,九州攻めに従軍し,天正16年,郡上八幡城に移り,羽柴郡上侍従の名で呼ばれた。関ケ原の戦(1600)には西軍に属して尾張犬山城に籠ったが,織田秀信の岐阜城落城後徳川家康に降服し,続く伊勢長島攻め,近江水口城攻めを命じられて戦い,戦後,豊後臼杵5万石に転封されている。

(小和田哲男)

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