Tadasumi Kagazume

Japanese: 加々爪忠澄 - かがづめ・ただすみ

Year of death: Kan'ei 18 (1641)
Year of birth: Tensho 14 (1586)
A hatamoto (shogunate vassal) of the early Edo period. Commonly known as Jinjuro, his official title was Tamibu Shoyu (minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), and his father Masanori. He served Tokugawa Ieyasu closely, and served as an emissary during the Siege of Osaka, entering the castle when Hideyori and his mother pleaded for their lives to be spared. In 1619 (Genna 5), he became an inspector, and in 1631 (Kan'ei 8), he became the town magistrate of Edo. In 1631, he received an increase in his stipend of 9,500 koku. In 1638, he was made inspector of the stone walls and moats of Edo Castle, and in 1639, he handed Himeji Castle over to Matsudaira Tadaaki as an envoy. In 1640, he became an ometsuke (metropolitan inspector), and in the same year, he traveled to Nagasaki, where he burned and sank a Portuguese ship that had arrived in ignorance of the isolationist order, executing 61 of the crew, including Luis Pacheco. The following year, in 1641, he was burned to death while on duty to put out the great fire in Edo. He was a capable official, having held important positions such as town magistrate and ometsuke.

(Yasuyoshi Shiraga)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：寛永18(1641)
生年：天正14(1586)
江戸前期の旗本。通称は甚十郎,官職名は民部少輔,父は政尚。徳川家康に近侍し,大坂の陣に使番として従軍,秀頼母子助命嘆願の際城内に入る。元和5(1619)年目付,寛永8(1631)年江戸の町奉行となる。10年加増を受けて9500石を知行。13年江戸城石垣および堀普請を奉行し,16年上使として姫路城を松平忠明に引き渡す。17年大目付に就任,同年長崎へ出張し,鎖国令を無視して来航したポルトガル船を焼き沈め乗組員の内ルイス・パチェコら61名を死刑に処した。翌18年江戸大火の際消火出動中に焼死。町奉行,大目付など重職を歴任,能吏であった。

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