Hōjō Ujinori

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{{nihongo|Hōjō Ujinori|北条 氏規||1545 – March 22, 1600}} was the fourth son of Hōjō Ujiyasu. Very early in his life he became an acquaintance of Tokugawa Ieyasu, because he alike was also at the time a hostage of the Imagawa.{{Cite book|last=Sadler|first=A. L.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cp0NAvT4xEEC&dq=Ujinori&pg=PT51|title=The Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu|date=2014-04-16|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-92469-9|language=en|chapter=II}} Far later in 1590, he was persuaded to surrender when Odawara Castle was attacked by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He then set off to Odawara in an attempt to negotiate peace.

Tokugawa Ieyasu granted Ujinori the Sayama fiefdom,{{Cite book|last=Frédéric|first=Louis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&dq=H%C5%8Dj%C5%8D+Ujinori&pg=PA342|title=Japan Encyclopedia|date=2002|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-01753-5|pages=342|language=en}} an estate of ten thousand koku.{{Cite book|last1=Brinkley|first1=Frank|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DAtFAQAAMAAJ&dq=H%C5%8Dj%C5%8D+Ujinori&pg=PA503|title=A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era|last2=Kikuchi|first2=Dairoku|date=1914|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Company|pages=503–504|language=en}} After Ujinori's death, the legacy of the Hōjō clan will be continued by his son, Hōjō Ujimori.

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