(1548 – September 19, 1603) was a Japanese samurai of the

Sengoku The was a period in Japanese history of near-constant civil war and social upheaval from 1467 to 1615. The Sengoku period was initiated by the Ōnin War in 1467 which collapsed the feudal system of Japan under the Ashikaga shogunate. Various ...

through early

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...

. He is believed to have been the illegitimate son of

Matsudaira Hirotada was the lord of Okazaki Castle in Mikawa province, Japan during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. He is best known for being the father of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Biography Hirotada was the son of Matsudaira ...

of Okazaki, and therefore the half-brother of

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fello ...

. He known as Matsudaira Saburo Goro Iemoto.

Family

* Father:

* Half-siblings: **

** Naito Nobunari ** Matsudaira Tadamasa (1544-1591) ** Shooko Eike ** Matsudaira Chikayoshi * Natural Siblings: **Ichibahime (d.1593) married Arakawa Yoshihiro ** Yadahime married Matsudaira Yasutada 1548 births 1603 deaths Samurai {{samurai-stub