Itakura Shigenori
Shigenori's youth was spent in Mikawa province. In 1615, Shigenori's father was granted yearly revenues from Mikawa in honor of his warrior conduct during the siege of Osaka. Career of shogunate service. Shigenori was made governor of Osaka Castle and then "rōjū". His served for a time as rōjū (1665–1668), and then he left Edo for Kyoto. He served as the shōgun's representative in the capital as the fourth Kyoto "shoshidai" in the period which spanned July 19, 1668 through April 3, 1670. He returned to Edo for a second term as rōjū (1670–1673). His  service to the Tokugawa shogunate was serially rewarded in Fukōzu and Mikawa-Nakajima. In 1672, he was made daimyō of Karasuyama in Shimotsuke Province. His grandfather was the second "shoshidai" and his uncle was the third "shoshidai". Shigenori followed their examples by joining his father as part of the shogunate's army during the Shimabara Rebellion.