was a Japanese samurai of the late Sengoku through early Edo eras. Founder of the Watari-Date clan. A senior retainer of the Date clan of Sendai, he was a cousin of Date Masamune

Date Masamune

was a regional strongman of Japan's Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful daimyo in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai...

 on his mother's side, and a cousin of Masamune's father Date Terumune

Date Terumune

was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period. He succeeded his father Harumune and became the sixteenth head of the Date clan of Mutsu Province. Date Masamune, the founder of the Sendai Domain, was his son....

 on his father's side. Together with Oniniwa Tsunamoto

Oniniwa Tsunamoto

' was a Japanese samurai of the late Sengoku era through early Edo era. The son of Oniniwa Yoshinao, Tsunamoto served the Date clan, and by the end of his life was the only Date retainer who was both older than and outlived Date Masamune. Tsunamoto succeeded to the family headship following the...

 and Katakura Kagetsuna

Katakura Kagetsuna

was a Japanese samurai of the Katakura clan during the late Sengoku period. Also known by his court title, Bichū no Kami , or more commonly, as Katakura Kojūrō. Together with Oniniwa Tsunamoto and Date Shigezane, Kagetsuna was known as one of the "Three Great Men of the Date Clan"...

, Shigezane was known as one of the "Three Great Men of the Date Clan". He is well known for his fighting skill