Kajūji Mitsutoyo
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Kajūji Mitsutoyo (勧修寺光豊? January 7, 1576 - November 18, 1612) was a high ranking official throughout the beginning of the Edo period of Feudal Japan. Mitsutoyo was the legitimate son to Kajūji Harutoyo--a leading kugyo--and was generously awarded by his father a coming of age ceremony ("Genpuku") within the year of 1583, initially at the age of 18. From this general point onward, Mitsutoyo was generously rewarded by Tokugawa Ieyasu a title not placed on any other official of the present time period: Buke Denso -- a title that justified his position as Samurai Intermediary of the Imperial Court. Thus being the first man who held this honor, beneath the Tokugawa Shogunate, Mitsutoyo became a valued official of high repute amongst his comrades, regarded by the people alike as a man of high capability. In result to these circumstances, Ieyasu granted Mitsutoyo the title of Dainagon ("Major Counselor") in 1612, thus presently putting him as one of the highest ranked court officials beneath the shogunate, initially working together with the Naidaijin, and thus establishing a name for himself before the entire country. Unfortunately however, Mitsutoyo would die by some unknown means within this same year, most conjectively by means of sickness. Even with such a detrimental incident, Mitsutoyo was able to produce a set of literature that he called the "Mitsutoyo Nikki".
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- Kajuji Mitsutoyo - SamuraiWiki. (Samurai Archives) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
