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The was a powerful daimyo
Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
 family of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa
Emperor Seiwa

Emperor Seiwa was the 56th Emperor of Japan of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 858 through 876....
 (850-880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan
Minamoto clan

was one of the honorary surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan of the Heian Period on those of their sons and grandsons who were not considered eligible for the throne....
 (Seiwa Genji) by the Nitta clan. However, the early history of this clan remains mystery.

moto no Yoshishige (+1202), grandson of Minamoto no Yoshiie
Minamoto no Yoshiie

Minamoto no Yoshiie , also known as Hachimantaro, was a Minamoto clan samurai of the late Heian period, and Chinjufu shogun . The first son of Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, he proved himself in battle with the Abe clan in the Zenkunen War and the Kiyowara clan in the Gosannen War ....
 (1041-1108), was the first to take the name of Nitta.






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The was a powerful daimyo
Daimyo

The were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. The term derives from a shortening of the title , which literally means "great named land" and originally simply referred to the owner of a large estate....
 family of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa
Emperor Seiwa

Emperor Seiwa was the 56th Emperor of Japan of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 858 through 876....
 (850-880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan
Minamoto clan

was one of the honorary surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan of the Heian Period on those of their sons and grandsons who were not considered eligible for the throne....
 (Seiwa Genji) by the Nitta clan. However, the early history of this clan remains mystery.

History

Minamoto no Yoshishige (+1202), grandson of Minamoto no Yoshiie
Minamoto no Yoshiie

Minamoto no Yoshiie , also known as Hachimantaro, was a Minamoto clan samurai of the late Heian period, and Chinjufu shogun . The first son of Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, he proved himself in battle with the Abe clan in the Zenkunen War and the Kiyowara clan in the Gosannen War ....
 (1041-1108), was the first to take the name of Nitta. He sided with his cousin Minamoto no Yoritomo
Minamoto no Yoritomo

was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. He ruled from 1192 until 1199....
 against the Taira clan
Taira clan

The was a major Japanese clan in historical Japan.In reference to History of Japan, along with Minamoto, Taira was a hereditary clan name bestowed by the emperors of the Heian Period to certain ex-members of the imperial family when they became subjects....
 (1180) and accompanied him to Kamakura
Kamakura, Kanagawa

is a cities of Japan located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, about south-south-west of Tokyo. It used to be also called . Although Kamakura proper is today rather small, it is sometimes considered a former de facto capital of Japan as the seat of the Shogunate and of the Shikken during the Kamakura Period....
. Nitta Yoshisue, 4th son of Yoshishige, settled at Tokugawa (Kozuke province) and took the name of that place. However, their provincial history book did not mention Minamoto clan
Minamoto clan

was one of the honorary surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan of the Heian Period on those of their sons and grandsons who were not considered eligible for the throne....
 and Nitta clan.

Matsudaira Chikauji was regarded as the originator of the Matsudaira clan. According to a tradition, he was a poor Buddhist monk. He nominally descended from Yoshisue in the 8th generation and witnessed the ruin of the Nitta in their war against the Ashikaga
Ashikaga clan

The was a prominent Japanese samurai Japanese clans which established the Muromachi shogunate and ruled Japan from roughly 1336 to 1573.The Ashikaga were descended from a branch of the Minamoto clan, deriving originally from the town of Ashikaga, Tochigi in Shimotsuke province ....
. He settled at Matsudaira in Mikawa province and was adopted by his wife's family. Their provincial history book claimed that this original clan was Ariwara clan. Because this place is said to have been reclaimed by Nobumori Ariwara, it is considered that Matsudaira clan was related to Ariwara no Narihira
Ariwara no Narihira

Ariwara no Narihira was a Japanese Waka poet and aristocrat. He was one of six waka poets referred in the preface in kana to Kokin Wakashu by Ki no Tsurayuki, and has been named as the hero of The Tales of Ise, whose hero was an anonym in itself but most of whose love affairs could be attributed to Narihira....
.

Matsudaira Nobumitsu (15th century), son of Chikauji, was in charge of Okazaki castle
Okazaki Castle

, although not the same castle as was originally built, nor in the same place, nevertheless has a long history dating back to 1455, when it was built by warrior Saigo Tsugiyori....
, and strengthened the authority of his family in the Mikawa province. Nobumitsu's great-great-grandson Matsudaira Kiyoyasu
Matsudaira Kiyoyasu

Matsudaira Kiyoyasu was the 7th lord over the Matsudaira clan during the Sengoku period of Japan. Kiyoyasu was the grandfather of the exceedingly famous unifier of Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu....
 made his clan strong, but was assassinated. In 1567, his grandson 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....
 (1542-1616) obtained from the Emperor permission to revive the name Tokugawa. In so doing, he claimed descent from the Minamoto clan.

The clan rose to power at the end of the 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....
, and to the end 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....
 they ruled Japan as shogun
Shogun

is a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces of Japan. The Japanese word for "general", it is made up of two kanji characters: sho, meaning "commander", "general", or "admiral", and gun meaning military troops or warriors....
s. All in all, there were fifteen Tokugawa shoguns
Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the , and the , was a feudalism regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family....
. Their dominance was so strong that some history books use the term "Tokugawa era" instead of "Edo period".

In addition, the heads of the gosanke
Gosanke

The were three branches of the Tokugawa clan of Japan. They were descended from Tokugawa Ieyasu through younger brothers of his heir, Tokugawa Hidetada....
 (the three branches with fiefs
Han (Japan)

The , or domains, were the fiefs of feudal lords of Japan that were created by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and existed until their Abolition of the han system in 1871, three years after the Meiji Restoration....
 in Owari
Owari Province

was an old Provinces of Japan of Japan that is now the western half of present day Aichi Prefecture, including much of modern Nagoya. Its abbreviation is Bishu ....
, Kishu
Kii Province

, or Kishu , was a Provinces of Japan of Japan in the part of Honshu that is today Wakayama Prefecture, as well as the southern part of Mie Prefecture....
, and Mito
Mito, Ibaraki

is the Capital of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan and has a central location, moderately offset towards the coast in that prefecture. As of 2005, the city has an estimated population of 263,748 and a total area is 217.45 km?, giving a population density of 1,212.91 persons per km?....
) bore the Tokugawa surname. Additional branches became the gosankyo
Gosankyo

The were three branches of the Tokugawa clan of Japan. They were descended from the eighth of the fifteen Tokugawa shoguns, Tokugawa Yoshimune ....
: the Tayasu, Hitotsubashi, and Shimizu Tokugawa clans. Many daimyo with 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 ....
 surname were descended from the Tokugawa. Examples include the Matsudaira of Fukui
Fukui

Fukui might refer to:...
 and Aizu
Aizu

is an area comprising the westernmost third of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. The principal city of the area is Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima.During the Edo period, Aizu was a han known as and part of Mutsu province....
. Members of the Tokugawa clan intermarried with prominent daimyo and the Imperial
Emperor of Japan

The of Japan is the symbol of the state and of the unity of the Japanese people. He is the head of the Imperial House of Japan. Under Japan's present constitution, the Emperor is the "symbol of the state and the unity of the people," and is a ceremonial figurehead in a constitutional monarchy ....
 family.

Their principal family shrine is the Tosho-gu
Nikko Tosho-gu

is a Shinto shrine located in Nikko, Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the "Shrines and Temples of Nikko", a UNESCO World Heritage Site....
 in Nikko, and principal temple is at Kan'ei-ji
Kan'ei-ji

is a Tendai Buddhism temple in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1625 by Tenkai. The main object of worship is . Because it was one of the two Tokugawa clan funeral temples and because it was destroyed in the closing days of the war that put an end to the Tokugawa shogunate, its name is inextricably linked to that of the Tokugawa shoguns....
 in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
.

Tokugawa's clan crest, known in Japanese as a "mon
Mon (badge)

File:Imperial Seal of Japan.svgFile:Mitsubaaoi2.svg', also ', ', and ', are Japanese heraldry symbols. Mon may refer to any symbol, while kamon and mondokoro refer specifically to family symbols....
", the "triple hollyhock
Hollyhock

The hollyhocks comprise about 60 species of flowering plants in the genus Alcea in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to southwest and central Asia....
" (although commonly, but mistakenly identified as "hollyhock, the "aoi" actually belongs to the birthwort family and translates as "wild ginger
Wild ginger

Wild ginger may refer to any of a variety of plants, often with a similar appearance, odour or taste to cultivated ginger. Species involved include:...
" - Asarum), has been a readily recognized icon in Japan, symbolizing in equal parts the Tokugawa clan and the last shogunate. Their family emblem derives from mythical clan, Kamo clan, which legendarily descended from Yatagarasu
Three-legged bird

The three-legged bird is a creature found in various mythology and arts of Asia, Asia Minor, and North Africa. It is often thought to inhabit and represent the sun....
. In fact, Matsudaira village was located in Higashi-Kamo District
Higashikamo District, Aichi

Higashikamo was a districts of Japan located in Northern Nishimikawa Region in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Formed during Meiji Era by spliting Kamo District in Mikawa Province....
, Aichi Prefecture. Although Emperor Go-Yozei
Emperor Go-Yozei

Emperor Go-Yozei was the 107th Emperor of Japan of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from December 17, 1586 to May 9, 1611, corresponding to the transition between the Azuchi-Momoyama period and the Edo period....
 offered a new crest, Ieyasu continued to use the crest, which was not related to Minamoto clan
Minamoto clan

was one of the honorary surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan of the Heian Period on those of their sons and grandsons who were not considered eligible for the throne....
.

In jidaigeki
Jidaigeki

is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama", and the period is usually the Edo period of History of Japan, from 1603 to 1868....
, the crest is often shown to locate the story in the Edo period. And in works set in during the Meiji restoration
Meiji Restoration

The , also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure....
 movement, the crest is used to show the bearer's allegiance to the shogunate -- as opposed to the royalists, whose cause is symbolized by the Imperial throne's chrysanthemum crest.

Family Members

  • 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....
  • Tokugawa Hidetada
    Tokugawa Hidetada

    was the second shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623. He was the third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa bakufu....
  • Tokugawa Nobuyasu
    Tokugawa Nobuyasu

    was the eldest son of Tokugawa Ieyasu. His tsusho was . He was called also , because he had become the lord of in 1570. Because he was a son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, he is often referred to, retroactively, as ....
  • Yuki Hideyasu
    Yuki Hideyasu

    was a Japanese daimyo who lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama period and early Edo periods. Born the second son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, he established the Echizen Province Fukui Domain....
  • Matsudaira Ietada
    Matsudaira Ietada

    Matsudaira Ietada was the name of three roughly contemporary men in Japanese history.*Matsudaira Ietada , who lived 1555-1600.*Matsudaira Ietada , who died in 1581....
  • Matsudaira Tadaaki
    Matsudaira Tadaaki

    was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period through early Edo period. He was a retainer and relative of the Tokugawa clan, and became a daimyo in 1602....
  • Matsudaira Tadanao
    Matsudaira Tadanao

    was a Japanese daimyo who ruled the Fukui Domain in the early Edo period. Tadanao was born 'Matsudaira Senchiyo', the eldest son of Yuki Hideyasu, by his concubine Lady Nakagawa....
  • Matsudaira Tadatsune
  • Tokugawa Mitsukuni
    Tokugawa Mitsukuni

    was a prominent daimyo who was known for his influence in the politics of the early Edo period. He was the third son of Tokugawa Yorifusa and succeeded him, becoming the second daimyo of the Mito domain....


Retainers


Clans

  • Abe clan of Mikawa
  • Gosankyo
    Gosankyo

    The were three branches of the Tokugawa clan of Japan. They were descended from the eighth of the fifteen Tokugawa shoguns, Tokugawa Yoshimune ....
  • Baba clan
    Baba clan

    The Baba clan refers to two differing families that were both respectively present within the 16th century Sengoku Period:*Baba clan *Baba clan ...
  • Honda clan
    Honda clan

    The is a Japanese family claiming descent from the medieval court noble Fujiwara no Kanemichi. The family settled in Mikawa Province and served the Matsudaira clan as retainers; later, when the main Matsudaira family became the Tokugawa clan, the Honda had a rise in prestige....
  • Ii clan
    Ii clan

    The is a Japanese clan which originates in Totomi Province. It was a retainer clan of the Imagawa family, and then switched sides to the Matsudaira clan of Mikawa Province....
  • Ishikawa clan
    Ishikawa clan

    The was a Japanese family which claimed descent from Minamoto no Yoshiie. They took their name from the Ishikawa district of Kawachi Province. In the Sengoku Period, the family had two major branches; one of them, which had settled in Mikawa Province in the 15th century, was a family of retainers serving what became the Tokugawa clan....
  • Sakai clan
    Sakai clan

    The was a Japanese clan that claimed descent from the Nitta clan branch of the Minamoto clan, who were in turn descendants of Emperor Seiwa. Serata Arichika, a samurai of the 14th century, was the common ancestor of both the Sakai clan and the Matsudaira clan, which the Sakai later served....


Important Retainers

  • Abe Masakatsu
    Abe Masakatsu

    was a Japanese samurai of the Abe clan of Mikawa who served Tokugawa Ieyasu. The son of Abe Masanobu, Masakatsu served Ieyasu from a young age, first accompanying him to Sunpu as a hostage....
  • Akamatsu Norifusa
    Akamatsu Norifusa

    was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. Norifusa served as the shugo of Harima Province, but was defeated during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Chugoku Offensive....
  • Akaza Naoyasu
    Akaza Naoyasu

    was a Japanese daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was also known as and , and held the title of . His father, , was a retainer of Oda Nobunaga....
  • Amano Yasukage
    Amano Yasukage

    was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa clan throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As Yasukage had established for himself a firm reputation beneath the Matsudaira clan by means of serving under Tokugawa Ieyasu even during the latter's years of childhood, he went on to become one of Mikawa Province's San-Bugyo--literally...
  • Ando Naotsugu
  • Ando Shigenobu
  • Aoyama Tadanari
    Aoyama Tadanari

    was a Tokugawa clan general and chief retainer at the end of the Sengoku period and start of the Edo period. He was the father of Aoyama Tadatoshi, and the Aoyama, Tokyo region of Shibuya, Tokyo is named after him....
  • Ariyama Toyouji
  • Asano Nagaakira
    Asano Nagaakira

    was a Japanese samurai of the early Edo period who served as daimyo of the Wakayama domain, and was later transferred to the Hiroshima Domain....
  • Baba Nobushige
    Baba Nobushige

    Baba Nobushige was a retainer beneath the clan of Takeda clan throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As Nobushige was the grandson to the reputed Baba Nobufusa's younger brother, Nobuyori, it can be relatively speculated that Nobushige supported the Takeda initially at the time at which he was eligible for service as vassal, a...
  • Fukushima Masanori
    Fukushima Masanori

    was a samurai of the late Sengoku Period to early Edo Period. A retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he fought in the battle of Shizugatake in 1583, and soon became known as one of Seven Spears of Shizugatake which also included Kato Kiyomasa and others....
  • Fukushima Masayori
  • Furuta Shigekatsu
    Furuta Shigekatsu

    was a Japanese samurai who survived the Battle of Sekigahara but died later the same year. He received Matsuzaka in Ise Province from Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu awarded him someplace worth 60,000 koku....
  • Hattori Hanzo
    Hattori Hanzo

    , also known as , the son of Hattori Yasunaga, was a famous Samurai.Hanzo was born a vassal of the Matsudaira clan, and served Tokugawa Ieyasu; he would later earn the nickname because of the fearless tactics he displayed in his operations....
  • Hattori Masanari
    Hattori Masanari

    was a retainer under the Tokugawa clan during the late Sengoku period of Japanese history. He was the eldest son of Hattori Hanzo....
  • Hiraiwa Chikayoshi
    Hiraiwa Chikayoshi

    was a senior retainer to Tokugawa Ieyasu throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As the time at which Chikayoshi began his service beneath the Tokugawa clan remains relatively unknown, it can be easily surmised that he supported his master, Ieyasu, within many variable campaigns before initially being regarded as senior to hi...
  • Hirose Kagefusa
    Hirose Kagefusa

    Hirose Kagefusa was a senior retainer to Tokugawa Ieyasu throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. With the speculation that Kagefusa supported the Takeda clan at the time at which he was eligible for vassalship, he became a supporting vassal to Senior Retainer Yamagata Masakage initially around such a time, where he supported th...
  • Hisamitsu Sadakatsu
  • Honda Hirotaka
    Honda Hirotaka

    was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through Azuchi-Momoyama period, who served the Tokugawa clan....
  • Honda Masanobu
    Honda Masanobu

    was a commander and daimyo in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama period and Edo periods.In 1563, when an uprising against Ieyasu occurred in Mikawa Province, Masanobu took the side of the peasants against Ieyasu....
  • Honda Masazumi
    Honda Masazumi

    was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan. He later became a daimyo, and one of the first roju of the Tokugawa Shogunate....
  • Honda Narishige
    Honda Narishige

    was a Japanese samurai of the late Sengoku period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan; he later became a daimyo. Narishige was born at Hamamatsu Castle, the son of Tokugawa retainer Honda Shigetsugu....
  • Honda Shigetsugu
    Honda Shigetsugu

    , also known as , was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through Azuchi-Momoyama Period, who served the Tokugawa clan. He fought in many of the Tokugawa clan's major battles, and was known as for his ferocity....
  • Honda Tadakatsu
    Honda Tadakatsu

    , also called 'Honda Heihachiro' , was a Japanese general of the late Sengoku Period through early Edo period, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu....
  • Honda Tadamasa
    Honda Tadamasa

    was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period, who ruled the Kuwana Domain and then the Himeji Domain. He was the son of Honda Tadakatsu.Tadamasa's first battle was during the Siege of Odawara, in 1590; he also fought at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600....
  • Honda Tadatoki
    Honda Tadatoki

    was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period.Tadatoki was born as the eldest son of Honda Tadamasa. His mother Kumahime was a granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga....
  • Honda Tadatsugu
    Honda Tadatsugu

    Honda Tadatsugu was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa clan throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Tadatsugu was the husband to one of Suganuma Sadamura's daughters and more than likely possessed a very firm relation with the former's family in result to this....
  • Honda Tadazumi
  • Honda Yasushige
    Honda Yasushige

    was a Japanese samurai of the late Sengoku period through early Edo period. The first lord of 'Okazaki han' in Mikawa Province, he held the title of 'Bungo no Kami' ....
  • Honda Yasutoshi
    Honda Yasutoshi

    was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan; he later became a daimyo. Yasutoshi was the second son of Sakai Tadatsugu; after a time as a hostage to the Oda clan; he was adopted by Honda Tadatsugu in 1580....
  • Hoshina Masamitsu
    Hoshina Masamitsu

    was a Japanese daimyo of the Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan. Masamitsu was the son of Hoshino Masanao, and after having lent his support to Tokugawa Ieyasu at the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, he was given the Takato Domain fief in 1600.With his father's death the following year in Takato, Masamitsu became the new head of the Hoshina...
  • Hoshina Masanao
    Hoshina Masanao

    was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period, who served the Takeda clan. He was the successor of his father Masatoshi in the ranks of the senior Takeda retainers, and was given command of 250 cavalry....
  • Hoshina Masatoshi
    Hoshina Masatoshi

    was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period who served the Takeda clan. The son of Hoshina Masanori, he ruled Takato Castle in Shinano Province....
  • Ii Naomasa
    Ii Naomasa

    was a general under the Sengoku period Daimyo, and later Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu. His family, like Tokugawa's, had originally been retainers of the once-powerful Imagawa clan, and Naomasa, then a very small child, was personally lucky to escape death in the confusion and general chaos which followed the death of the clan's leader, Imagawa Y...
  • Ii Naotaka
    Ii Naotaka

    was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period who served under the Tokugawa shogunate. He was the son of the famous Tokugawa general Ii Naomasa....
  • Ii Naotsugu
  • Ina Tadatsugu
    Ina Tadatsugu

    was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa clan throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Serving under the right arm of Takeda Katsuyori as a civil officer of moderate ability, it is highly speculated that Tadatsugu lent his service to the reputed Tokugawa Ieyasu by the 1582 Invasion of Kai Province, at which he would s...
  • Ishikawa Kazumasa
    Ishikawa Kazumasa

    Ishikawa Kazumasa, a very notable retainer under Tokugawa Ieyasu, even serving him since his childhood, since they were both hostages under the Imagawa at that time....
  • Ishin Suden
    Ishin Suden

    Ishin Suden , also known as Konchiin Suden, was a Zen Rinzai monk and advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and later to Tokugawa Hidetada and Tokugawa Iemitsu on religious matters and foreign affairs....
  • Kikkawa Hiroie
    Kikkawa Hiroie

    was a Japanese daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period.Hiroie's father was Kikkawa Motoharu and his mother was a daughter of Kumagai Nobunao....
  • Kobayakawa Hideaki
    Kobayakawa Hideaki

    Kobayakawa Hideaki was fifth son of Kinoshita Iesada and the nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.He was adopted by Hideyoshi and called himself Hashiba Hidetoshi and Shusen ....
  • Koriki Kiyonaga
    Koriki Kiyonaga

    was a Japanese daimyo during the Azuchi-Momoyama period and Edo periods. A native of Mikawa Province, Kiyonaga served the Tokugawa clan during its battles, until 1600....
  • Kutsuki Mototsuna
    Kutsuki Mototsuna

    was a samurai commander in Azuchi-Momoyama period and Edo period.His father was Kutsuki Harutsuna . The Kutsuki were a powerful clan at Kutsuki-tani , Takasima-gori, Omi Province....
  • Mizuno Nobutomo
  • Naito Ienaga
    Naito Ienaga

    was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku Period through Azuchi-Momoyama Period, who served the Tokugawa clan. He was the son of Naito Kiyonaga. Ienaga served Tokugawa Ieyasu from a young age, and was famed for his skill with the bow....
  • Naito Nobunari
    Naito Nobunari

    was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan; he later became a daimyo.Nobunari is believed to have been the illegitimate son of Matsudaira Hirotada ....
  • Natsume Yoshinobu
    Natsume Yoshinobu

    was relatively a senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa clan throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As Yoshinobu began service as vassal to the Matsudaira clan before initially supporting Tokugawa Ieyasu's rise to power during the late 16th century, he would become holder of Hamamatsu castle, a strategic position essent...
  • Ogasawara Ujisuke
  • Ogawa Suketada
    Ogawa Suketada

    Ogawa Suketada was a daimyo in Azuchi-Momoyama period and Edo period.First, Suketada served Akechi Mitsuhide, and secondly, served Shibata Katsutoyo....
  • 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....
  • Okubo Tadasuke
    Okubo Tadasuke

    was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period through early Edo period. Being the younger brother to Senior Retainer Okubo Tadayo, it can be speculated that Tadasuke initially began to serve under Tokugawa Ieyasu at the time at which he came of age for vassalship, following in support to his respective lord throughout many variable conflicts....
  • Okubo Tadachika
    Okubo Tadachika

    was a Japanese daimyo and samurai general of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through Edo period. He was the second head of Odawara Domain.Tadachika was a senior vassal of the Tokugawa clan, and fought in many of its major conflicts of the Sengoku period....
  • Okubo Nagayasu
    Okubo Nagayasu

    'Okubo Nagayasu' was a retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa clan throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As Nagayasu was the son of a certain sarugaku player to the Takeda clan, it is speculated that he initially became a retainer to his father's respective lord around the time at which he was eligible for service, forth...
  • Okudaira Sadamasa
    Okudaira Sadamasa

    was a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period and early Edo period periods. Nobumasa's family considered their origins to have been associated with Mikawa province....
  • Sakai Tadatsugu
    Sakai Tadatsugu

    was one of the most favored and most and successful military commanders serving Tokugawa Ieyasu in the late-Sengoku period. As a token of respect and appreciation, Ieyasu conferred a special, honorific title, naming him as one of the Four Guardians of the Tokugawa clan ....
  • Sakakibara Yasumasa
    Sakakibara Yasumasa

    was a Japanese daimyo of the late Sengoku period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan. As one of the Tokugawa family's foremost military commanders, he was considered one of its Shitenno ....
  • Suganuma Sadamitsu
    Suganuma Sadamitsu

    was a samurai commander of the Suganuma clan during Japan's Sengoku period. Originally serving under the Imagawa clan, until the year of 1560, Sadamitsu then entered the service of the Tokugawa clan....
  • Torii Tadayoshi
    Torii Tadayoshi

    Japanese samurai of the mid-Sengoku period. Longtime retainer of Matsudaira Hirotada and later, his son Tokugawa Ieyasu. When Ieyasu was sent to Sunpu to be a hostage to the Imagawa clan, Tadayoshi served alongside Matsudaira Shigeyoshi as castle warden of Okazaki Castle....
  • Torii Mototada
    Torii Mototada

    was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through late Azuchi-Momoyama Period, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu. Torii died at the siege of Fushimi where his garrison was greatly outnumbered and destroyed by the army of Ishida Mitsunari....
  • Uemura Masakatsu
    Uemura Masakatsu

    was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period who served as one of three magistrates for the Tokugawa clan. Masakatsu served Tokugawa Ieyasu from a young age, though he would side with a rioting monto group within the province of Mikawa province in 1565....
  • Wakisaka Yasuharu
    Wakisaka Yasuharu

    , sometimes referred to as 'Wakizaka Yasuharu', was a daimyo of Awaji Island who fought under a number of warlords over the course of Japan's Sengoku period....
  • Watanabe Moritsuna
    Watanabe Moritsuna

    was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan....


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