Masanari Naruse

Japanese: 成瀬正成 - なるせ・まさなり

Year of death: 17 January 1625 (23 February 1625)
Year of birth: Around 1568 (Eiroku 11)
Lord of Inuyama Castle in Owari Province (Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture) in the early Edo period. Attached chief retainer of the Owari Tokugawa family. Born in Mikawa Province (Aichi Prefecture). Nicknamed Koyoshi, he was appointed Hayatomasa. His father was Shoichi. He served Tokugawa Ieyasu from an early age and became a page. Toyotomi Hideyoshi asked him to return to the Tokugawa family, but he refused. After the Battle of Sekigahara, he became the magistrate of Sakai. He then became a close aide to Ieyasu in Sunpu and participated in the Shogunate government as a Toshiyori. In 1607, he became the guardian of Ieyasu's ninth son, Yoshinao, but continued to serve as a Toshiyori. In 1617, he became an attached chief retainer, and in 1617, he moved to Owari and was given a fief of 30,000 koku. It is said that upon his death, music in Edo was suspended for three days by special order of the Shogunate. <References> Naruse Yoshio, ed., "The Public Biography of Naruse Masanari" (Inuyama City Documents, Vol. 1)

(Ryosuke Koshiba)

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Japanese:

没年：寛永2.1.17(1625.2.23)
生年：永禄11頃(1568)
江戸時代前期の尾張国犬山城(愛知県犬山市)城主。尾張徳川家の付家老。三河国(愛知県)生まれ。通称は小吉,隼人正に任ぜられる。父は正一。幼少より徳川家康に近侍し小姓となる。豊臣秀吉から帰参を請われたが断った。関ケ原の戦後堺奉行。その後駿府の家康の側近となり年寄衆として幕政に参与した。慶長12(1607)年家康の9男義直の守役となるが,なおも年寄衆であった。同17年付家老となり,元和3(1617)年,尾張に移り3万石を領した。その死に際しては幕府の特旨により3日間江戸の音楽が停止されたという。<参考文献>成瀬美雄編「成瀬正成公伝」(『犬山市資料』1巻)

(小柴良介)

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