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Samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period (–)

In this Japanese name, the surname is Yagyū.

Yagyū Munenori (柳生 宗矩, – May 11, ) was a Japanese daimyo, swordsman, and martial arts writer, founder of the Edo branch of Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, which he learned from his father Yagyū "Sekishūsai" Muneyoshi.

This was one of two official sword styles patronized by the Tokugawa shogunate (the other one being Ittō-ryū). Munenori began his career in the Tokugawa administration as a hatamoto, a direct retainer of the Tokugawa house, and later had his income raised to 10, koku, making him a minor fudai daimyō (vassal lord serving the Tokugawa), with landholdings around his ancestral village of Yagyū-zato.

He also received the title of Tajima no Kami (但馬守).

Career

Munenori entered the service of To