Hajikano Masatsugu

{{Short description|Japanese samurai}}

{{family name hatnote|Hajikano|lang=Japanese}}

{{nihongo|Hajikano Masatsugu|初鹿野 昌次||1545 – December 25, 1624}} was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, who served as general of ashigaru (demanding post) the Takeda clan.{{cite book |last= |first= |date= 25 March 2000|title=Nagashino 1575: Slaughter at the Barricades |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFaCvUTWEI0C&q=Hajikano+Masatsugu&pg=PA80 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |page=80 |isbn=1855326191 |access-date=September 11, 2015}}{{cite book |last=Kleinschmidt |first=Harold |date=2007 |title=Warfare in Japan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTtyAAAAMAAJ&q=Hajikano+Masatsugu |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |page=375 |isbn=978-0754625179 |access-date=September 11, 2015}}{{cite book |date=1989 |title=Proceedings, Issues 112-120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7h5xAAAAMAAJ&q=Hajikano+Masatsugu |publisher=The Society |page=51 |access-date=September 11, 2015}} He lived well into the early Edo period.