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Ii Naomasa

1561 - 1602

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Ii Naomasa (井伊 直政; March 4, 1561 – March 24, 1602) was a general under the Sengoku period daimyō, and later shōgun, Tokugawa Ieyasu. He led the clan after the death of Ii Naotora. He married Tobai-in, Matsudaira Yasuchika's daughter and adopted daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ii Naomasa joined the ranks of the Tokugawa clan in the mid-1570s, rising swiftly through the ranks and became particularly famous after the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute, as he is recognized as one of the Four Guardians of the Tokugawa along with Honda Tadakatsu, Sakakibara Yasumasa, and Sakai Tadatsugu. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ii Naomasa is the 7,985th most popular politician (down from 5,889th in 2019), the 676th most popular biography from Japan (down from 420th in 2019) and the 234th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ii Naomasa ranks 7,985 out of 19,576. Before him are Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Yi Yin, Heinrich von Brentano, Surayud Chulanont, Ibzan, and Soong Ai-ling. After him are Morarji Desai, Emperor Gao of Southern Qi, Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Louis Riel, Aq Sunqur al-Hajib, and Anatoly Lukyanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1561, Ii Naomasa ranks 9. Before him are Luis de Góngora, Santorio Santorio, Katō Kiyomasa, Henry Briggs, Anna Maria of the Palatinate, and John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen. After him are Thomas Fincke, Fukushima Masanori, Adriaan van Roomen, Philippe van Lansberge, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, and Mary Sidney. Among people deceased in 1602, Ii Naomasa ranks 8. Before him are Giacomo della Porta, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Renata of Lorraine, Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Emilio de' Cavalieri, and Kobayakawa Hideaki. After him are Li Zhi, Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin, Thomas Morley, Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Juan de Fuca, and Caspar Peucer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ii Naomasa ranks 676 out of 6,245. Before him are Uesugi Kagekatsu (1556), Eiji Tsuburaya (1901), Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Emperor Go-Sanjō (1032), Akemi Iwata (1954), and Teizo Takeuchi (1908). After him are Kinji Fukasaku (1930), Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931), Shigechiyo Izumi (1865), Emperor En'yū (959), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), and Shintaro Ishihara (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ii Naomasa ranks 234. Before him are Emperor Horikawa (1079), Emperor Reizei (949), Keisuke Okada (1868), Tanaka Giichi (1864), Uesugi Kagekatsu (1556), and Emperor Go-Sanjō (1032). After him are Shigechiyo Izumi (1865), Emperor En'yū (959), Shintaro Ishihara (1932), Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), and Yuriko Koike (1952).

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