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(1550-1610) 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. Serving under the right arm of Takeda Katsuyori
Takeda Katsuyori

was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku Period, who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen....
 as a civil officer of moderate ability, it is highly speculated that Tadatsugu lent his service to the reputed 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....
 by the 1582 Invasion of Kai Province
Kai Province

is an old provinces of Japan in Japan that corresponds to Yamanashi Prefecture today. It lies in central Honshu, west of Tokyo, in a landlocked mountainous region that includes Mount Fuji along its border with Shizuoka Prefecture....
, at which he would still hold the same respective military office. Either way, Tadatsugu was born into a warrior family within the province 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....
, and was nonetheless inclined to support the latter.






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(1550-1610) 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. Serving under the right arm of Takeda Katsuyori
Takeda Katsuyori

was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku Period, who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen....
 as a civil officer of moderate ability, it is highly speculated that Tadatsugu lent his service to the reputed 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....
 by the 1582 Invasion of Kai Province
Kai Province

is an old provinces of Japan in Japan that corresponds to Yamanashi Prefecture today. It lies in central Honshu, west of Tokyo, in a landlocked mountainous region that includes Mount Fuji along its border with Shizuoka Prefecture....
, at which he would still hold the same respective military office. Either way, Tadatsugu was born into a warrior family within the province 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....
, and was nonetheless inclined to support the latter. Following the Odawara Campaign of 1590, Tadatsugu was awarded with a 13,000-koku fief at the Konosu District of Musashi Province
Musashi Province

was a Provinces of Japan of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture, mainly Kawasaki, Kanagawa and Yokohama....
, which was delegated to him either by his lord, or that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi

was a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, after Hideyoshi's castle....
, who presently held a level of authority over the Tokugawa. Regardless whether who was the provider of this delegation, Tadatsugu was nonetheless additionally made to be a head administrator over the Kanto Region
Kanto region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region encompasses seven Prefectures of Japan which overlaps the Greater Tokyo Area: Gunma Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Tokyo, Chiba Prefecture, and Kanagawa Prefecture....
's granary lands, placing him at a higher level of civil authority in result. During the Sekigahara Campaign of 1600, Tadatsugu's service beneath his respective lord would be re-furnished by the death of Hideyoshi, and he would personally earn from his lord a high means of respect after handling the transporation of the Eastern force's supplies throughout this campaign. With the beginning of 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....
, Tadatsugu continued to support his respective lord as a very high ranked civil administrator beneath the Tokugawa Bakufu, and at very short length was promoted by Ieyasu to the rank of 'Kanto Gundai', which thus gave him jusridictional control over the eight provinces that were present to the east of Capital Edo. At this same present time, Tadatusugu held the rank of 'Daikan' within Kai Province, therefore allowing him control over an assessed koku sum of 1,000,000. Additionally taking part within multiple public work projects for the remainder of his life, Tadatsugu died by the year of 1610, where it is easily speculated that the rationale behind such a death was nothing less then a consequence to old age.