abstract:, known in his youth as Senkumaru (千熊丸) and alternatively called Tachibana Munetora (立花 宗虎 or 立花 統虎), was a samurai during the Azuchi–Momoyama period and an Edo Period daimyo. He was the eldest biological son of Takahashi Shigetane, a retainer of Ōtomo clan.