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[[File:Shimazu-tadamasa.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The graves of Tadamasa and his wife at the Shimazu clan cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]]]]
* ''Born: [[1463]]''
* ''Died: [[1508]]''
* ''Other names'': 島津武久 ''(Shimazu Takehisa)''
* ''Distinction: [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]] warlord''
* ''Japanese'': [[島津]]忠昌 ''(Shimazu Tadamasa)''

Shimazu Tadamasa was the 11th head of the [[Shimazu clan]]. He is known both for his political/military exploits, and for the founding of the [[Satsunan school]] of [[Neo-Confucianism]], which got its start when Tadamasa invited [[Keian Genju]] to come to [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]] to lecture on the subject in [[1478]].

A son of [[Shimazu Tatsuhisa]], Tadamasa's notable campaigns include the defeat of the [[Ito clan|Itô clan]] in [[1485]] in southern [[Hyuga province|Hyûga]]. He suffered the rebellion of a number of his vassals in [[Osumi province|Ôsumi]] in [[1496]], and of the [[Kimotsuki clan]] in [[1506]]. He is said to have killed himself, in [[1508]], the result of a combination of illness, and for his failure to suppress the Kimotsuki rebellion.

He was succeeded as clan head, in turn, by each of three of his sons, [[Shimazu Tadaharu]], [[Shimazu Tadataka|Tadataka]], and [[Shimazu Katsuhisa|Katsuhisa]].

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|width="32%"|Preceded by:<br>[[Shimazu Tatsuhisa]]
|width="35%"|'''Head of [[Shimazu clan]] & lord of [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]], [[Osumi province|Ôsumi]], and [[Hyuga province|Hyûga provinces]]'''<br> [[1474]]-[[1508]]
|width="32%"|Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Shimazu Tadaharu]]'''
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