Ikeda

Ikeda lay in Mino, where the Toki family held the office of provincial military governor. In the fourteenth century, Toki Yoriyasu placed his brother Yoritada in Ikeda. Yoritada adopted the Ikeda name and later became the fifth Toki governor of Mino. He built Hongō Castle and founded Zenzōji in the locality now called Ganjōji. His son Yorimasu also lived at Hongō before moving his residence elsewhere.

The family's presence remained visible in the temple's memorial towers. Among those commemorated were Yoritada, who died in 1397, and Yorimasu, who died in 1414. Another military lineage left a later memorial landscape. Local tradition places Ikeda Tsunetoshi at Hagiwara during the Tenbun era. His son Tsuneoki served Oda Nobunaga and then Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Tsuneoki and his son Motosuke both fell at Nagakute in 1584. Their graves west of Ryūtokuji linked the locality to a struggle fought elsewhere, preserving the memory of a household drawn into the wars over central Japan.