Chiba Tsunetane

Chiba Tsunetane (1118–1201), third head of the Chiba clan, raised his house to Kamakura vassal standing. Son of Chiba Tsuneshige, he fought under Minamoto no Yoshitomo in the Hōgen Disturbance of 1156. In 1180 he answered Yoritomo's call to arms, ordered his son and grandson to kill the Taira-aligned deputy of Shimōsa, and joined Yoritomo with three hundred riders.

He fought at Ichinotani in 1184 and commanded the Tōkaidō army in the 1189 Ōshū campaign. He died in 1201 aged eighty-four; later Chiba heads took the character tane from his name.