Date Terumune


Date Terumune was a Japanese samurai clan leader of the Sengoku period. His childhood name was Hikotaro later Sojiro.

Family

Terumune succeeded his father Harumune; and he became the sixteenth head of the Date clan of Mutsu Province.
When Oda Nobunaga was assassinated in 1582, Terumune gave his clan's support to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the power struggle which followed.
Terumune was the father of Date Masamune, who succeeded him as clan leader in 1584.

In fiction

In NHK's 1987 Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune, Terumune was played by Kin'ya Kitaōji.