was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan; he later became a '' daimyō''. Nobunari is believed to have been the illegitimate son of Matsudaira Hirotada (which would make him the half-brother of Tokugawa Ieyasu). He was later adopted by

Naitō Kiyonaga (1501 – September 17, 1564) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, who served the Matsudaira clan of Mikawa Province was an old province in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. ...

. As the years passed on with his brother's succession to headship and the birth of the Tokugawa, Nobunari primarily acted as the former's page, but ascended to a greater means of ranking after supporting in the 1565 assault against Mikawa monk rioters. After distinguishing himself in battle during a certain assault upon Kuroma castle at a later time, Nobunari went on to respectively support the Tokugawa within the

Battle of Mikatagahara The was a battle of the Sengoku period of Japan fought between Takeda Shingen and Tokugawa Ieyasu in Mikatagahara, Tōtōmi Province on 25 January 1573. Shingen attacked Ieyasu at the plain of Mikatagahara north of Hamamatsu during his cam ...

in 1573, and Nagashino of 1575, where he showed at least moderate ability on both battlefields. By the year of 1590, Nobunari would be awarded

Nirayama Castle is a hilltop castle, now largely ruins, built by Hōjō Sōun in the Izu Province in 1493. Originally, Sōun had his main castle at Kōkokuji Castle. After building Nirayama Castle, Sōun made it his main castle and kept on living in the castle ...

of Izu Province—respectively holding 10,000

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to its name—and would enter into the Edo period with a 50,000 koku fief at Nagahama within Ōmi Province, where he remained as '' daimyō'' until he died in 1612.

Family

* Father: Matsudaira Hirotada * Mother: Naito no Tsubone * Wife: Awao Nagakatsu's daughter * Children: ** Naito Nobumasa (1568-1626) ** Naito Nobuhiro (d.1619) ** Naito Nobusuke

References

"Naitō" on ''Murakami daijiten''
(22 February 2008)

(22 February 2008) Naitō clan Samurai 1545 births 1612 deaths Japanese pages Daimyo {{daimyo-stub