was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama 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 characteriz ...

s. He was the family head of the Matsui-Matsudaira, a family which received the Matsudaira name as an honorific following his father's service to

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 fellow ...

. Yasushige ended his life as daimyō of Kishiwada han. There is rumour said that he is Ieyasu's illegitimate son.

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Kishiwada han on "Edo 300 HTML"
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Matsudaira Yasushige was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama through early Edo periods. He was the family head of the Matsui-Matsudaira, a family which received the Matsudaira name as an honorific following his father's service to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yasushige e ...

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(in Japanese) , - , - , - , - , - 1568 births 1640 deaths Daimyo Matsui-Matsudaira clan {{daimyo-stub