Chiba Tanetsuna

Chiba Tanetsuna (1198–1228), sixth head of the Chiba clan and a Kamakura gokenin, succeeded his father Naritane in 1218. In the seventh month of 1219 he escorted the new shōgun Fujiwara no Yoritsune down to Kamakura.

During the Jōkyū War of 1221 he marched west up the Tōkaidō with Hōjō Yasutoki against the retired emperor's forces and won distinction. He died in the fifth month of 1228, aged thirty-one.