Chiba Tsuneshige

Chiba Tsuneshige (1083–1180) was a late-Heian samurai of Shimōsa Province and the second head of the Chiba clan, son of Taira no Tsunekane. In 1124 his uncle ceded him the district of Sōma, and on his father's death in 1126 he inherited the Chiba district, uniting the two.

In 1126 he is said to have moved his seat from Ōjii in Kazusa to Chiba and built Chiba Castle. He donated the Chiba manor to Cloistered Emperor Toba in 1130, and in 1135 passed leadership to his young son Tsunetane.