Tadasuke Okubo - Ookubo Tadasuke

Japanese: 大久保忠佐 - おおくぼ・ただすけ

Year of death: September 27, 1613 (November 9, 1613)
Year of birth: Tenbun 6 (1537)
A feudal lord in the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods. The second son of Okubo Tadakane, a long-time retainer of the Matsudaira clan. His mother was the daughter of Sanjonishi Kimijo, the Minister of the Right. He was commonly known as Yahachiro, and later called himself Jiemon. He served Tokugawa Ieyasu from an early age, and participated in almost all of Ieyasu's major battles, including the Battle of Owari Kanie Castle in 1555 and the battle against the Mikawa Ikko Ikki in 1563. When Ieyasu was transferred to the Kanto region in 1590, he was given 5,000 koku in Mobara, Takashi, and Kizaki in Kazusa Province. He served in Tokugawa Hidetada's army in the Battle of Sekigahara, and in 1601 became the feudal lord of Numazu Castle in Suruga with 20,000 koku. He had no children, and tried to adopt his younger brother, Hikozaemon Tadanori, but was refused, and was stripped of his title.

(Tetsuo Owada)

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Japanese:

没年：慶長18.9.27(1613.11.9)
生年：天文6(1537)
安土桃山・江戸前期の大名。松平家譜代の家臣大久保忠員の次男。母は右大臣三条西公条の娘。通称弥八郎,のち治右衛門を称した。幼時から徳川家康に仕え,弘治1(1555)年の尾張蟹江城の戦,永禄6(1563)年の三河一向一揆との戦をはじめ,家康の主な戦闘にはほとんど従軍している。天正18(1590)年の家康関東移封にともない,上総国茂原・高師・木崎で5000石を与えられている。関ケ原の戦では徳川秀忠軍に属し,慶長6(1601)年,駿河沼津城2万石の大名となった。子どもがなく,弟の彦左衛門忠教を養子にしようとしたが断わられ,改易となった。

(小和田哲男)

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