Senior Oda retainer: Ise and Kanto regions

Takigawa Kazumasu

滝川一益

Senior retainer to Oda Nobunaga involved in the expansion of Oda power in Ise and politics concerning the Kitabatake clan; after the Takeda's extinction in 1582, he was stationed in the Kanto region. In Ise, he was positioned to support Oda Nobukatsu's succession to the Kitabatake house, and Kuki Yoshitaka of Shima is said to have served Nobunaga through Kazumasu. After the Takeda's fall, he was posted to Maebashi in Kōzuke, tasked with managing and defending newly occupied territory bordering the Hōjō, Uesugi, and Tokugawa. The Honnō-ji Incident prevented maintaining this reorganization; the conflict with the Hōjō and withdrawal from Kōzuke became one starting point of the Tenshō Disturbance. Many accounts describe him as 'Kanto Deputy Shōgun,' but which documents granted which authorities requires separate verification.

Sources　鳥羽市「九鬼嘉隆（人物概要）」／小牧市「小牧・長久手の合戦 関連年表」／群馬県立文書館「上野国と天正壬午の乱」