was a Japanese ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and no ...

'' of the

Sengoku period The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...

and early

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

. He was the head of Numazu Domain in

Suruga Province was an Provinces of Japan, old province in the area that is today the central part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Suruga bordered on Izu Province, Izu, Kai Province, Kai, Sagami Province, Sagami, Shinano Province, Shinano, and Tōtōmi Province, Tōtōm ...

. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)
"Ōkubo" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 46
retrieved 2013-4-10. In 1572, He participate in the battle of Hitokotosaka along with

Honda Tadakatsu , also called Honda Heihachirō (本多平八郎) was a Japanese samurai, general, and daimyo of the late Sengoku through early Edo periods, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu. Honda Tadakatsu was one of the Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings (Shitennō) a ...

against

Takeda clan The was a Japanese samurai clan active from the late Heian period until the late 16th century. The clan was historically based in Kai Province in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture. The clan reached its greatest influence under the rule of Taked ...

forces. Tadasuke participated in many Ieyasu's important battles including the conquest of Takeda clan,

battle of Komaki and Nagakute The , also known as the Komaki Campaign (小牧の役 ''Komaki no Eki''), was a series of battles in 1584 between the forces of Hashiba Hideyoshi (who would become Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1586) and the forces of Oda Nobukatsu and Tokugawa Ieyasu ...

, and the decisive

battle of Sekigahara The Battle of Sekigahara (Shinjitai: ; Kyūjitai: , Hepburn romanization: ''Sekigahara no Tatakai'') was an important battle in Japan which occurred on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month) in what is now Gifu Prefecture, ...

. He eventually became a feudal lord with 20,000 koku of land at Numazu, Suruga Province. Tadasuke passed away on September 27, 1613 (Keicho 18) without an heir, and his 20,000 koku of Numazu was confiscated. References from: * "Kansei Chosu Shokafu Volume 4" National Diet Library Digital Collection * "Japanese War History Materials Volume 2 Mikawa Monogatari Complete" National Diet Library Digital Collection * Katsuhiro Taniguchi "Nobunaga and Ieyasu: The Reality of the Kiyosu Alliance" Gakken Plus, January 2012 * Yu Ogawa et al. (eds.) "Illustrated Tokugawa Ieyasu and His Vassals" Ebisu Kosho Publishing, October 2022 It was recorded that despite participated in many battles, Tadasuke never received single wounds during his career. Jōzan Yuasa, a samurai retainer of Okayama clan and confucian scholar who authored many anecdotes during Edo period, has recorded that Tadasuke once boasted he only ever received 13 wounds in battle during his lifetime as soldier. When he died in 1613, he left no heir; and the domain reverted to the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars ...

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"Numazu" at Edo 300
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