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(March 1, 1574–June 2, 1607) was a Japanese 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....
 who lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama
Azuchi-Momoyama period

The came at the end of the Sengoku period in Japan, when the political unification that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate took place....
 and early 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....
s. Born the second son of 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....
, he established the Echizen
Echizen Province

was an Old provinces of Japan of Japan, which is today the northern part of Fukui prefecture.Echizen is famous for washi . A text dated AD 774 mentions the washi made in this area....
 Fukui Domain
Fukui Domain

The was a feudal domain in Echizen Province of Japan during the Edo period. It is also sometimes called . The family name of the heads of the domain is "Matsudaira"....
.

Birth
Hideyasu was born Tokugawa Ogimaru in 1574, the 2nd son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, by Ieyasu's concubine, Lady Oman. Oman is said to have given birth to twins, and that Ogimaru's brother succeeded Oman's father as priest of Chiryu Shrine in Mikawa Province
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....
.






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(March 1, 1574–June 2, 1607) was a Japanese 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....
 who lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama
Azuchi-Momoyama period

The came at the end of the Sengoku period in Japan, when the political unification that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate took place....
 and early 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....
s. Born the second son of 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....
, he established the Echizen
Echizen Province

was an Old provinces of Japan of Japan, which is today the northern part of Fukui prefecture.Echizen is famous for washi . A text dated AD 774 mentions the washi made in this area....
 Fukui Domain
Fukui Domain

The was a feudal domain in Echizen Province of Japan during the Edo period. It is also sometimes called . The family name of the heads of the domain is "Matsudaira"....
.

Birth


Hideyasu was born Tokugawa Ogimaru in 1574, the 2nd son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, by Ieyasu's concubine, Lady Oman. Oman is said to have given birth to twins, and that Ogimaru's brother succeeded Oman's father as priest of Chiryu Shrine in Mikawa Province
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....
. He was born near Hamamatsu Castle
Hamamatsu Castle

is a reconstructed castle in the middle of down town Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture ....
, in Ofumi Village.

Oman was a servant to Lady Tsukiyama, Ieyasu's first wife. After Ieyasu impregnated her, he feared Tsukiyama's wrath, and so he sheltered her in the home of his retainer 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....
. Ogimaru was born there.

Indifference from Ieyasu


The young Ogimaru was, for some reason, disliked by his father Ieyasu. It was not until age three that he met Ieyasu, and even that meeting, cold as it was, was not arranged by the father, but instead by Ogimaru's half-brother, Matsudaira Nobuyasu. After Nobuyasu's execution by order of Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga

was a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of History of Japan. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy shugo with land holdings in Owari province....
, Ogimaru would have been the next in line to inherit the Tokugawa headship; however, as part of the peace negotiations following the Battle of Komaki-Nagakute, he was given in adoption (in reality as a hostage) to Hashiba Hideyoshi. Coming of age while living with Hideyoshi, Ogimaru then took the name Hashiba Hideyasu, which combined the names of his adoptive father and biological father.

Young Adulthood and Battles


Hideyasu took part in his first campaign during the subjugation of Kyushu in 1587, leading the assault on Buzen-Iwaishi Castle. He also received honors for his distinction in the pacification of Hyuga Province
Hyuga Province

Hyuga was an old provinces of Japan of Japan on the east coast of Kyushu, corresponding to the modern Miyazaki prefecture. Hyuga bordered on Bungo Province, Higo Province, Osumi Province, and Satsuma Provinces....
. Hideyasu also took part in the Siege of Odawara (1590) and the Korean Campaign (1592). His successes in these campaigns earned him respect as an able field commander, despite his young age.

In 1589, a son was born to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and so Hideyasu was given in adoption the following year to Yuki Harutomo of Shimosa Province. Marrying Harutomo's niece, Hideyasu succeeded to the Yuki headship and its 111,000 koku
Koku

The is a unit of volume in Japan, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres....
 landholding.

Later Years


Following the Battle of Sekigahara
Battle of Sekigahara

The , popularly known as the , was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 which cleared the path to the Shogunate for Tokugawa Ieyasu. Though it would take three more years for Ieyasu to consolidate his position of power over the Toyotomi clan and the daimyo, Sekigahara is widely considered to be the unofficial beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate,...
, he received a transfer from the fief the Yuki family held in Shimosa Province (assessed at 101,000 koku
Koku

The is a unit of volume in Japan, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres....
) to one in Fukui (670,000 koku). In 1604, he took the surname 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 ....
. When he died in 1607, his first son 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....
 succeeded him.

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