Ii Naotora information

Ii Naotora
井伊直虎
Ii Naotora; 井伊直虎
Head of Ii clan
	In office; 1563–1582
Preceded by	Ii Naomori
Succeeded by	Ii Naomasa
Personal details
Born	Probably 1530s
Died	September 12, 1582
Children	Ii Naomasa (adopted); Takase (adopted)
Parent	Ii Naomori / Sekiguchi Ujitsune (father);
Relatives	Lady Tsukiyama (daughter of Ii Naohira's daughter);
Military service
Allegiance	Imagawa clan; Tokugawa clan
Unit	Ii clan

Ii Naotora (井伊直虎, d. 12 September 1582) was a daimyō of the Sengoku period and head of the Ii clan.

There is only one contemporaneous document related to the person named "Ii Naotora" (井伊直虎), but according to the most common theory, she is believed to be the same person as Jirō Hōshi (次郎法師), the daughter of Ii Naomori (井伊直盛), who became the head of the Ii family despite being a woman. This theory is based on the "Ii Family Chronicle" (井伊家伝記), written in the mid-Edo period in 1730 (Kyōhō 15). It is said that Jirō Hoshi was engaged to Ii Naochika (井伊直親) but remained unmarried throughout her life and was the foster mother of Naochika's orphaned child, Ii Naomasa (井伊直政), who later became one of Tokugawa's Four Heavenly Kings.

However, while this is the common theory, historians and researchers have differing opinions regarding Naotora's origins and whether Naotora and Jirō Hōshi were indeed the same person. There are several theories regarding Naotora's identity,

The first is the more popular theory regarding Jirō Hōshi, daughter of Ii Naomori, the eighteenth head of their clan. She was primarily the head of Ii clan and retainer of the Imagawa clan, and because of her efforts, Ii Naotora became a daimyō and received the nickname "Female Landlord" (女地頭).^[3]
The second theory was that Ii Naotora was actually a son of an Imagawa clan retainer named Sekiguchi Ujitsune.^[1]^[2]

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^ "井伊直虎（次郎法師）｜井伊家の歴史｜遠州の古刹龍潭寺". www.ryotanji.com. Retrieved 2019-05-06.

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Ii Naotora 井伊直虎


Head of Ii clan
In office 1563–1582
Preceded by	Ii Naomori
Succeeded by	Ii Naomasa

Personal details
Born	Probably 1530s^[a]
Died	September 12, 1582
Children	Ii Naomasa (adopted)^[b] Takase (adopted)
Parent	Ii Naomori^[c] / Sekiguchi Ujitsune^[d] (father)
Relatives	Lady Tsukiyama (daughter of Ii Naohira's daughter)^[e]
Military service
Allegiance	Imagawa clan Tokugawa clan
Unit	Ii clan