Norihide Matsuda

Japanese: 松田憲秀 - まつだ・のりひで

Year of death: Tensho 18.7 (1590)
Year of birth: Unknown. Senior vassal of the Sengoku daimyo Hojo clan. Samanosuke, Owari no Kami. He is believed to be the son of sisters Morihide and Hojo Tsunanari. At the end of the Tenbun era (1532-1555), he inherited the family headship and took the title Samanosuke, becoming the head of the Odawara clan. In the Odawara clan land and service register created in 1559, he is recorded as having a stipend of 2,798 kanmon, the highest among the vassals. Around 1577 (Tensho 5), he seems to have handed the family headship over to his son Naohide, and took the title Owari no Kami. In the same year, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked Odawara, he is said to have argued for the theory that the castle was besieged, but in June while he was besieged, he tried to collude with Hideyoshi, and after the battle, Hideyoshi ordered him to commit seppuku instead. His attempt to get through backfired. <References> Minamiashigara City History, Special Volume 1

(Sawaki Eiichi)

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Japanese:

没年：天正18.7(1590)
生年：生年不詳
戦国大名北条氏の重臣。左馬助,尾張守。盛秀と北条綱成の姉妹の子とみられる。天文年間(1532～55)末には家督を継いで左馬助を称し,小田原衆の筆頭となっている。永禄2(1559)年作成の『小田原衆所領役帳』には貫高2798貫文余と記載されるが,これは家臣中最高であった。天正5(1577)年ごろには家督を子の直秀に譲ったらしく,尾張守を称している。同18年,豊臣秀吉の小田原来攻に当たっては籠城説を主張したといわれるが,籠城中の6月秀吉方に内応しようとし,戦後秀吉より逆に切腹を命じられている。款を通じようとしたのが裏目に出たのである。<参考文献>『南足柄市史』別冊1

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