is a former Provinces of Japan in the area of Japan that is today western Shizuoka prefecture.Totomi's ancient castle town was near modern Iwata, Shizuoka, but by the Sengoku period, the chief castle town was at Hamamatsu, Shizuoka.... . It was a retainer clan of the Imagawa family, and then switched sides to the Matsudaira clan
Matsudaira clan
The was a Japanese clan that claimed descent from the Minamoto clan. It first originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province .... of Mikawa Province
Mikawa Province
is an old provinces of Japan in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture. Mikawa bordered on Owari province, Mino province, Shinano province, and Totomi Province provinces.... . A famed 16th century clan member, Ii Naomasa
Ii Naomasa
was a general under the Sengoku period Daimyo, and later Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu. His family, like Tokugawa's, had originally been retainers of the once-powerful Imagawa clan, and Naomasa, then a very small child, was personally lucky to escape death in the confusion and general chaos which followed the death of the clan's leader, Imagawa Y... , served as one of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.... 's generals, and received the fief of Hikone as a reward for his conduct in battle at Sekigahara. The Ii and a few sub-branches remained daimyo for the duration of the Edo period
Edo period
The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.... . Ii Naosuke
Ii Naosuke
was daimyo of Hikone and also Tairo of Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858 until his death on March 24, 1860. He is most famous for signing the Harris Treaty with the United States, granting access to ports for trade to American merchants and seamen and extraterritoriality to American citizens.... , the famed politician of the late Edo period, was another member of this clan.
