Ikeda Terumasa

Terumasa Ikeda (Japanese池田 辉 政; * 1564, † 1613 ), son and heir of Ikeda Tsuneoki (actually Nobuteru ) was the daimyo ( regional feudal lord ) of Himeji at the time of the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa shogun.

He was owner of the castle Ikejiri in the province of Mino and supported his father the commander and politician Toyotomi Hideyoshi, including the Komaki campaign of 1584, in which his father was killed. After the exchange of territory between Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who later became Shogun of Japan, in 1590 he settled in Yoshida in the province of Mikawa on.

1594 Terumasa married one of the daughters of Tokugawa Ieyasu. After the death of Hideyoshi, the Ikeda's over to the side Ieyasu, he also assisted in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 in which he led about 4,000 soldiers. In September of that year he turned against his rival Fukushima Masanori. After the Battle of Sekigahara Terumasa received the fief of 520,000 koku Himeji in the province of Harima with the Himeji castle as the center.

1603 the dominion of the Ikeda has been extended to Bizen, which he transferred to his eldest son Ikeda Toshitaka. At the time of death Ikeda Terumasas ruled the family about Harima, Bizen, Inaba and Awaji, their total income from it reached about one million koku. For his outstanding abilities, he was throughout the empire as Shogun of Japan West (西 国 将军, nishikoku shōgun ) known.

• Sengoku Daimyo
• Born in 1564
• Died in 1613
• Man