Background
Naokatsu succeeded to family headship following his father"s death in 1602.
井伊 直勝
Naokatsu succeeded to family headship following his father"s death in 1602.
Under Tokugawa Ieyasu"s orders, Naokatsu completed construction of Hikone Castle in 1606, and then moved there from Sawayama Castle when it was largely completed.
He was also known as Ii Naotsugu. After the siege of Osaka, Tokugawa Ieyasu rewarded Naokatsu"s younger brother Naotaka with the Ii family headship, and allowed Naokatsu to form a branch family with holdings at the fief of Annaka in Kōzuke Province, worth some 30,000-koku. He died in Ōmi Province in 1662.
His descendants were moved around several times before having their holdings settle at Itoigawa, in Echigo Province.