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* ''Born: [[1576]]''

* ''Died: [[1638]]''

* ''Born: [[1576]]/11/7''

* ''Died: [[1638]]/2/24''

* ''Sons: [[Shimazu Tadayuki]]''

* ''Sons: [[Shimazu Tadayuki]]''

* ''Titles: Chûnagon, Satsuma no kami, Ôsumi no kami''

* ''Titles: Chûnagon, Satsuma no kami, Ôsumi no kami''

* ''Japanese'': [[島津]]忠恒 ''(Shimazu Tadatsune)''

* ''Japanese'': [[島津]]忠恒 ''(Shimazu Tadatsune)''

Tadatsune was the 3rd son of [[Shimazu Yoshihiro]]. He became the [[daimyo|daimyô]] of the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]] following his family's involvement in the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] and went to [[Edo]] in [[1603]] to personally pledge his loyalty to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. He received the character 'Ie' from [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and surname [[Matsudaira]].  

Tadatsune was the 3rd son of [[Shimazu Yoshihiro]]. He became the [[daimyo|daimyô]] of the [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]] following his family's involvement in the [[Sekigahara Campaign]] and went to [[Edo]] in [[1607]]<ref name=ueno4>Ueno Takafumi 上野尭史, ''Satsuma han no sankin kôtai'' 薩摩藩の参勤交代 (2007), 4.</ref> to personally pledge his loyalty to [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. He received the character 'Ie' from [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and surname [[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]].  

Tadatsune (now known as Iehisa) thus became the first [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]]; he requested, and received, permission to [[Invasion of Ryukyu|invade the Ryûkyû Kingdom]], and did so in [[1609]].

Tadatsune (now known as Iehisa) thus became the first [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]]; he requested, and received, permission to [[Invasion of Ryukyu|invade the Ryûkyû Kingdom]], and did so in [[1609]].

He led troops at the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]] and was on his way to join the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]] with 13,000 troops but arrived after the castle had fallen. He won favor with the [[Tokugawa Bakufu]] in [[1609]] by sending an expedition to [[kingdom of Ryukyu|Okinawa]] that resulted in the king of that island being brought to Edo and tribute given.  

He led troops at the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]] and was on his way to join the [[Osaka Summer Campaign]] with 13,000 troops but arrived after the castle had fallen. He won favor with the [[Tokugawa Bakufu]] in [[1609]] by sending an expedition to [[kingdom of Ryukyu|Okinawa]] that resulted in the king of that island being brought to Edo and tribute given.  

Iehisa rose through the [[court ranks]] over the course of his career; in [[1599]] he held the title of [[ritsuryo|Minor Captain]] (少将, ''shôshô'') and the Lower Senior Fourth Rank. He was named Royal Advisor and concurrently Middle Captain (参議兼中将) in [[1617]], and was then raised to the title of ''Chûnagon'' and to the Junior Third Rank in [[1626]].<ref>Kamiya Nobuyuki, ''Ryûkyû to Nihon, Chûgoku'' 琉球と日本・中国, Yamakawa Shuppansha (2008), 62.</ref>

Iehisa rose through the [[court ranks]] over the course of his career; in [[1599]] he held the title of [[ritsuryo|Minor Captain]] (少将, ''shôshô'') and the Lower Senior Fourth Rank. He was named Royal Advisor and concurrently Middle Captain (参議兼中将) in [[1617]], and was then raised to the title of ''Chûnagon'' and to the Junior Third Rank in [[1626]].<ref>Kamiya Nobuyuki, ''Ryûkyû to Nihon, Chûgoku'' 琉球と日本・中国, Yamakawa Shuppansha (2008), 62.</ref> This was the highest [[court rank]] any Shimazu lord would achieve in the Edo period.<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 101.</ref>

 

Iehisa was also confirmed in his fief, with a ''[[kokudaka]]'' of 605,607 ''[[koku]]'' in 1617. As such, Ueno Takafumi cites this as marking the Shimazu clan's first performance of ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]''.<ref name=ueno4/> In [[1624]]-[[1625]], Iehisa journeyed again to Edo, this time leaving his wife [[Shimazu Kameju]] in Edo as a political hostage; this is said to have been done on Iehisa's initiative, and marks an early example, or precedent, upon which the shogunate based its later decision to oblige all ''daimyô'' to leave their wives and heirs in Edo as hostages.<ref name=ueno4/>

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