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*''Born: [[1611]]''

*''Born: [[1611]]''

*''Died: [[1672]]''

*''Died: [[1672]]''

*''Japanese'': [[保科]]正之 ''(Hoshina Masayuki)''

*''Japanese'': [[保科]]正之 ''(Hoshina Masayuki)''

Hoshina Masayuki was a shogunal advisor and regent to the young [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]], who succeeded his father [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] at the age of ten. Hoshina was a son of [[Tokugawa Hidetada]], half-brother to [[Tofukumon-in|Tôfukumon-in]], and uncle to the young shogun Ietsuna.

Hoshina Masayuki was a shogunal advisor and regent to the young [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]], who in [[1651]] succeeded his father [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]], becoming shogun at the age of ten. Hoshina was the third son of [[Tokugawa Hidetada]], half-brother to [[Tofukumon-in|Tôfukumon-in]], and uncle to the young shogun Ietsuna.

Though a son of a shogun, Masayuki was not born to Hidetada's primary wife, [[Tokugawa Eyo-no-kata]], who forbade him, therefore, from staying within the household, and arranged to have him adopted by the [[Hoshina clan]]. He rose within the family to become ''daimyô'' of [[Aizu han]], before returning to [[Edo]] to serve as shogunal regent for his young nephew.

Though a son of a shogun, Masayuki was born to a concubine; as a result, Hidetada's primary wife, [[Oeyo]], forbade him from staying within the household, and arranged to have him adopted by the [[Hoshina clan]]. His adoptive father was [[Hoshina Masamitsu]], lord of the 30,000 ''[[koku]]'' [[han|domain]] of [[Takato han|Takatô]] in [[Shinano province]]. Masayuki succeeded Masamitsu as lord of Takatô in [[1631]], but was then transferred to [[Yamagata han]] (200,000 ''koku'') in [[1636]], before being transferred once again in [[1644]], this time to [[Aizu han]] (Wakamatsu, 230,000 ''koku'').

 

Masayuki later returned to [[Edo]] to serve as shogunal regent for his young nephew, at which time he was granted use of the name [[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]].

In [[1664]], Hoshina helped resolve a domainal succession issue, when his son-in-law [[Uesugi Tsunakatsu]], lord of [[Yonezawa han]], died without a direct heir. Hoshina advised that the domain be split, and given to [[Uesugi Tsunanori]]. While this decision led to great financial difficulties for the domain, in the end, the [[Uesugi clan]], continuing to feel indebted to Hoshina, and by extension to the [[Tokugawa clan]], sided with the pro-shogunate [[Oetsu Reppan Domei|Ôetsu Reppan Dômei]] in the [[Boshin War]] of [[1868]].

In [[1664]], Hoshina helped resolve a domainal succession issue, when his son-in-law [[Uesugi Tsunakatsu]], lord of [[Yonezawa han]], died without a direct heir. Hoshina advised that the domain be split, and given to [[Uesugi Tsunanori]]. While this decision led to great financial difficulties for the domain, in the end, the [[Uesugi clan]], continuing to feel indebted to Hoshina, and by extension to the [[Tokugawa clan]], sided with the pro-shogunate [[Oetsu Reppan Domei|Ôetsu Reppan Dômei]] in the [[Boshin War]] of [[1868]].

==References==

==References==

*Lillehoj, Elizabeth. "A Gift for the Retired Empress." in Lillehoj (ed.). ''Acquisition: Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan''. Floating World Editions, 2007. p103.

*Elizabeth Lillehoj. "A Gift for the Retired Empress." in Lillehoj (ed.). ''Acquisition: Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan''. Floating World Editions, 2007. p103.

*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 288n11.

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