Amano Yasukage

Japanese: 天野康景 - あまの・やすかげ

Year of death: February 24, 1613 (April 14, 1613)
Year of birth: Tenbun 6 (1537)
A military commander in the Sengoku and early Edo periods. He was commonly known as Matagoro and Saburobei, and was originally named Kageyoshi. He started out as a page to Tokugawa Ieyasu, but in 1565, he was selected as one of the three Mikawa magistrates along with Takachika Kiyonaga and Honda Shigetsugu, in recognition of his contributions to the pacification of Mikawa. After Ieyasu entered Edo Castle, he was briefly appointed Edo town magistrate, and in 1601 he became a hereditary daimyo and was in charge of the 10,000 koku Suruga Kokokuji domain. In 1609, Yasukage's foot soldiers killed a peasant from the Tenryo domain who was trying to steal materials for the castle, and shortly after a "decree" was issued stating, "The peasants are to be stopped from committing acts of mischief," Yasukage fled while shielding him, and was stripped of his title.

(Tetsuo Owada)

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Japanese:

没年：慶長18.2.24(1613.4.14)
生年：天文6(1537)
戦国・江戸時代前期の武将。通称は又五郎および三郎兵衛といい,名ははじめ景能といった。徳川家康の小姓から,永禄8(1565)年には,三河平定の功を買われ高力清長,本多重次と共に三河三奉行に抜擢された。家康の江戸入城後,一時江戸町奉行に任命され,慶長6(1601)年には譜代大名となって駿河興国寺藩1万石の支配に当たった。同12年,築城資材を盗もうとした天領の農民を康景の足軽が斬り,折から「百姓むざところし候事御停止也」という「定書」が出されて間もなくのことで,康景はこれをかばって逐電したために,改易された。

(小和田哲男)

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