Japanese samurai
Y?ki Hideyasu
(
結城 秀康
, 1 March 1574 – 2 June 1607)
was a Japanese
samurai
who lived during the
Azuchi?Momoyama
and early
Edo periods
. He was the
daimy?
of
Fukui Domain
in
Echizen
.
[1]
Early life
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Hideyasu was born as
Tokugawa Ogimaru
(
?川於義丸
)
in 1574, the second son of
Tokugawa Ieyasu
, by Lady Oman (also known as Lady Kog?), a handmaiden to his wife,
Lady Tsukiyama
. When Oman became pregnant, Ieyasu feared his wife's wrath, so he sheltered the girl in the home of his retainer
Honda Shigetsugu
, in Ofumi Village near
Hamamatsu Castle
, and it was there that Ogimaru and his brother were born.
[
citation needed
]
Oman is said to have given birth to twins, and that Ogimaru's brother succeeded Oman's father as priest of Chiry? Shrine in
Mikawa Province
.
[
citation needed
]
The young Ogimaru was, for some reason, disliked by his father Ieyasu. It was not until age three that he met Ieyasu, and even that meeting, cold as it was, was not arranged by the father, but instead by Ogimaru's elder half-brother,
Matsudaira Nobuyasu
. After
Oda Nobunaga
demanded that Ieyasu order Nobuyasu's
seppuku
, Ogimaru would have been the next in line to inherit the Tokugawa headship by birth; however, as part of the peace negotiations following the
Battle of Komaki-Nagakute
, he was given in adoption (in reality as a hostage) to the childless
Hashiba Hideyoshi
in 1584.
[2]
Coming of age while living with Hideyoshi, Ogimaru was given the name
Hashiba Hideyasu
, which combined the names of his adoptive father and biological father. He was also granted
courtesy title
of
Mikawa-no-kami
, and his
Court rank
was Senior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade, raised to
Ukonoue-gon-sh?sh?
and Senior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade in 1585
Mature years
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Hideyasu took part in his first campaign during the
Ky?sh? Campaign
of 1587, leading the assault on Buzen-Iwaishi Castle. He also received honors for his distinction in the pacification of
Hy?ga Province
. Hideyasu also took part in the
Siege of Odawara (1590)
and the
Japanese invasions of Korea (1592?98)
. His successes in these campaigns earned him respect as an able field commander, despite his youth.
[
citation needed
]
However, in 1589, a natural son was born to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Hideyoshi had adopted several promising candidates as heir over the years, and began to give these men in adoption to other great houses to avoid a potential conflict over the succession. Hideyasu was given in adoption in 1590 to
Y?ki Harutomo
of
Shim?sa Province
, and married Harutomo's niece, becoming
Y?ki Hideyasu
and succeeded to the Y?ki headship and its 101,000
koku
holding.
[2]
Later years
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During the
Battle of Sekigahara
, Y?ki Hideyasu was ordered by Ieyasu to remain in his holdings in Shim?sa, possibly because of his pro-Toyotomi sympathies, and possibility because his emergence as a strong military leader might threaten the prestige and position of his younger half-brother,
Tokugawa Hidetada
. Following the Battle of Sekigahara and the establishment of the
Tokugawa shogunate
, he was given all of
Echizen Province
(670,000
koku
) as his fief. In 1604, he was allowed to take the surname
Matsudaira
.
[3]
In 1605, his court rank was elevated to Senior Third Rank, and his courtesy title to
Gon-Ch?nagon
. Professor Sunao Kawaguchi suspected the reason Hideyasu was not appointed as successor of Ieyasu as Shogun was because he spent most of his life close to the house of
Toyotomi clan
.
[4]
Hideyasu died in 1607 at the age of 34, possibly from
syphilis
. His death came seven years after the Battle of Sekigahara and eight years before Tokugawa Ieyasu completed the destruction of the Toyotomi clan at the
Siege of Osaka
. He left a will to his heir urging support for
Toyotomi Hideyori
even if the Tokugawa decided to attack. His son and heir,
Matsudaira Tadanao
ignored his father's will and thus the Echizen-Matsudaira clan survived to the
Meiji restoration
of 1868.
[2]
Family
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- Father:
Tokugawa Ieyasu
(1543-1616)
- Mother: Lady Oman (1548?1620) later Ch?sh?-in
- Wife, concubines, children:
- Wife: Tsuruhime, daughter of Y?ki Harutomo
- Concubine: Nakagawa no Tsubone later Seiry?-in
- Concubine: ???
- Concubine: Gessho?in
- Concubine: Shinry?-in
- Concubine: Nao no Tsubone later Nagaju-in
- Matsudaira Naoyoshi (1605?1678) inherited
?no Domain
References
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- ^
Nussbaum, Louis-Frederic
. (2005).
"Matsudaira Hideyasu"
in
Japan Encyclopedia
, p. 616.
- ^
a
b
c
Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph
. (1906).
Dictionnaire d’histoire et de geographie du Japon
; Papinot, (2003).
"Matsudaira" at
Nobiliare du Japon
, p. 30
; retrieved 2013-4-9.
- ^
Appert, Georges
. (1888).
"Matsudaira" in
Ancien Japon
, p. 70
;
compare
Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph
. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de geographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003).
Nobiliare du Japon
, pp. 29?30
; retrieved 2013-3-26.
- ^
Sunao Kawaguchi (川口素生) (2010).
お江と?川秀忠101の謎
(in Japanese) (Unabridged ed.). PHP?究所. p. 29.
ISBN
4569675638
. Retrieved
5 June
2024
.
External links
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Media related to
Yuki Hideyasu
at Wikimedia Commons