Honda Tadamasa

• Birth: 1575
• Death: 1638
• Title: Mino no kami
• Distinction: Tokugawa retainer

Tadamasa was the eldest son of Honda Tadakatsu. He accompanied Tokugawa Hidetada during the Sekigahara Campaign (1600) and fought at the Osaka castle sieges (1614, 1615). In 1617 he received a 250,000-koku fief at Himeji in Harima province. He was married to a daughter of the by-then late Tokugawa Nobuyasu, Ieyasu's eldest son. Sons: Honda Tadatoki (1596-1626), Honda Tadayoshi (1602-1676), Honda Masatoki

• Initial text from Samurai-Archives.com FWSeal & CEWest, 2005