Tadanari Aoyama

Japanese: 青山忠成 - あおやま・ただなり

Year of death: February 28, 1613 (April 18, 1613)
Year of birth: Tenbun 20 (1551)
A feudal lord in the early Edo period. Governor of Harima. He served Tokugawa Ieyasu as a page from a young age, but from 1580 (Tensho 8), the year after Tokugawa Hidetada was born, he was attached to Hidetada as a supervisor. When the Tokugawa clan entered the Kanto region in 1580, he was ordered to go ahead and settle all matters, and worked day and night to allocate the fiefs of his vassals. In 1601 (Keicho 6), he became a feudal lord with 18,000 koku of rice, and that same year he was appointed as the Kanto Magistrate along with Honda Masanobu and Naito Kiyonari, and demonstrated his skills in managing the Kanto domain. However, when Ieyasu released his falcon in 1618, the rope used for catching the bird was found abandoned, which upset Ieyasu. This reached Hidetada's ears and he investigated, and it is said that Tadanari and Kiyonari were forgiven. Although the two should have been charged with serious crimes, Masanobu mediated and they only received house arrest.

(Koike Susumu)

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Japanese:

没年：慶長18.2.28(1613.4.18)
生年：天文20(1551)
江戸初期の大名。播磨守。幼少から徳川家康に小姓として仕えたが,徳川秀忠が誕生した翌年天正8(1580)年からは秀忠に補導役として付属。18年の徳川氏関東入国の際には,先発して諸事沙汰すべきを命じられ,昼夜兼行で家臣団の知行割に当たった。慶長6(1601)年1万8000石の大名となり,この年本多正信,内藤清成と共に関東総奉行に任命され,関東領国経営に当たり手腕を発揮した。ところが,11年家康の放鷹の際,取鳥用の縄が打ち捨てられており,家康の機嫌を損じた。これが秀忠の耳に入りせんさくしたところ忠成,清成の許すところであったという。両名は重罪となるべきところを,正信の取り成しにより蟄居ですんだとされる。

(小池進)

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