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was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa
Tokugawa clan

The was a powerful daimyo family of Japan. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa and were a branch of the Minamoto clan by the Nitta clan. However, the early history of this clan remains mystery....
 throughout the latter Sengoku Period
Sengoku period

The was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict in Japan that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century....
 of Feudal Japan. As Yasukage had established for himself a firm reputation beneath the Matsudaira
Matsudaira clan

The was a Japanese clan that claimed descent from the Minamoto clan. It first originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province ....
 by means of serving under Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara  in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868....
 even during the latter's years of childhood, he went on to become one of Mikawa
Mikawa Province

is an old provinces of Japan in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture. Mikawa bordered on Owari province, Mino province, Shinano province, and Totomi Province provinces....
's San-Bugyo--literally "Three Comissioners"--within 1565. The many variable campaigns and conflicts that Yasukage had taken part in relatively remain unknown according to record, but during the year of 1573, Yasukage and Okubo Tadayo
Okubo Tadayo

was a Japanese daimyo and samurai general of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He served Tokugawa Ieyasu. The eldest son of Okubo Tadakazu, he accompanied Tokugawa Ieyasu in all of his campaigns, up until his own death in 1593, and was awarded the fief of Odawara Domain in 1590, with an income of 45,000 koku....
 led an exceedingly successful night raid against the Takeda forces initially following the Tokugawa's excruciatingly humiliating defeat at Mikatagahara that same year, where they forced the enemy forces into a ravine and put them into a situation at which they were relatively helpless.






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was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa
Tokugawa clan

The was a powerful daimyo family of Japan. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa and were a branch of the Minamoto clan by the Nitta clan. However, the early history of this clan remains mystery....
 throughout the latter Sengoku Period
Sengoku period

The was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict in Japan that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century....
 of Feudal Japan. As Yasukage had established for himself a firm reputation beneath the Matsudaira
Matsudaira clan

The was a Japanese clan that claimed descent from the Minamoto clan. It first originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province ....
 by means of serving under Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara  in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868....
 even during the latter's years of childhood, he went on to become one of Mikawa
Mikawa Province

is an old provinces of Japan in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture. Mikawa bordered on Owari province, Mino province, Shinano province, and Totomi Province provinces....
's San-Bugyo--literally "Three Comissioners"--within 1565. The many variable campaigns and conflicts that Yasukage had taken part in relatively remain unknown according to record, but during the year of 1573, Yasukage and Okubo Tadayo
Okubo Tadayo

was a Japanese daimyo and samurai general of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He served Tokugawa Ieyasu. The eldest son of Okubo Tadakazu, he accompanied Tokugawa Ieyasu in all of his campaigns, up until his own death in 1593, and was awarded the fief of Odawara Domain in 1590, with an income of 45,000 koku....
 led an exceedingly successful night raid against the Takeda forces initially following the Tokugawa's excruciatingly humiliating defeat at Mikatagahara that same year, where they forced the enemy forces into a ravine and put them into a situation at which they were relatively helpless. This raid being of great success, Yasukage earned for himself a more prestigious name beneath his respective clan and received 10,000-koku fief by the year of 1590. It is not known how Yasukage faired following this period in time, but it is speculated that he may have taken up arms during the Sekigahara Campaign of 1600, regardlessly entering the Edo Period
Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
 with a showing to his reputation.