Nagai Naokatsu - Long and yet

Japanese: 永井直勝 - ながい・なおかつ

Year of death: 29 December 1626 (27 January 1626)
Year of birth: 1563
Lord of the Koga Domain in Shimousa Province (Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture) in the early Edo period. Born in Mikawa Province (Aichi Prefecture). Nicknamed Denhachiro, he was appointed Ukyo no Daibu. His father was Nagata Shigemoto (Naokichi). He initially served Tokugawa Ieyasu's son Nobuyasu, but after his death he served Ieyasu and changed his family name to Nagai. He took the head of Ikeda Tsuneoki in the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute. After the Battle of Sekigahara, he was ordered by Ieyasu to study yusoku (ancient precedents) under Hosokawa Yusai, who was knowledgeable about the ceremonies of the Muromachi Shogunate. Ieyasu had great confidence in him, and wanted him to become his son's attendant elder, but he firmly refused. In 1622 (Genna 8), when he was transferred to Koga with a fief of 72,000 koku, he sat in the council and from then on lived in Edo. <References> Suzuki Shigemoto, Nagai Naokatsu

(Ryosuke Koshiba)

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Japanese:

没年：寛永2.12.29(1626.1.27)
生年：永禄6(1563)
江戸時代前期の下総国古河藩(茨城県古河市)藩主。三河国(愛知県)生まれ。通称は伝八郎,右京大夫に任ぜられる。父は長田重元(直吉)。はじめ徳川家康の子信康に仕えたが,その死後家康に仕え家号を永井に改めた。小牧・長久手の戦では池田恒興の首をとった。関ケ原の戦後,家康の命で室町幕府の典礼にくわしい細川幽斎に有職(古式先例)を学ぶ。家康の信任は厚く,息子の付家老にと望まれたが固辞している。元和8(1622)年古河7万2000石に転封の際には評定の席に列し,これより江戸に定府した。<参考文献>鈴木成元『永井直勝』

(小柴良介)

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