Jutsurai Shimozuma (born 1516) was the daimyo of the Ikko-Ikki Hongan-ji Buddhist monks of Japan.
Biography[]
Jutsurai Shimozuma was the ambitious lord of the Ikko-Ikki Hongan-ji Buddhist monk order of central Japan. He made a trade agreement with the Takeda clan, although he was unfriendly towards their lord Shingen Takeda due to his territorial expansion. Jutsurai and his clan were fierce warrior-monks similar to those of Kenshin Uesugi of the Uesugi clan of Echigo Province, whom they fought with in fierce wars over northern central Japan.
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Jutsurai in 1545