Makino Chikashige

Makino Chikashige (牧野 親成, 1607 – October 19, 1677) was a Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period.

From 1668 through the Meiji Restoration, the descendants had holdings at Tanabe Domain (35,000 koku) in Tango Province.

[4] As a youth, Chikashige had joined the household of Tokugawa Iemitsu as a page.

He served the Tokugawa shogunate as its third Kyoto shoshidai in the period spanning January 5, 1655, through July 2, 1668.

[1] As shoshidai, he was actively and personally engaged as the head of a network of spies tasked to discover and report any covert sources of sedition, insurrection or other kinds of unrest.