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In [[1583]], the year following the destruction of the [[Takeda clan]] and the death of [[Oda Nobunaga]], Nobuyuki's father Masayuki built [[Ueda castle]] and gained control of the Chiisagata District. When [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] attacked Ueda in [[1585]] in an argument about [[Noda castle]], Nobuyuki was active in the defense.  Later he served Ieyasu and married [[Sanada Komatsu|Komatsu]], the daughter of  [[Honda Tadakatsu]], who had been adopted by Ieyasu.  Therefore he was officially Ieyasu's son-in-law.

In [[1583]], the year following the destruction of the [[Takeda clan]] and the death of [[Oda Nobunaga]], Nobuyuki's father Masayuki built [[Ueda castle]] and gained control of the Chiisagata District. When [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] attacked Ueda in [[1585]] in an argument about [[Noda castle]], Nobuyuki was active in the defense.  Later he served Ieyasu and married [[Sanada Komatsu|Komatsu]], the daughter of  [[Honda Tadakatsu]], who had been adopted by Ieyasu.  Therefore he was officially Ieyasu's son-in-law.

At some point he was given charge of the Sanada castle of [[Numata castel|Numata]] in northwest [[Kozuke province|Kôzuke Province]], apparently in his own right,<ref> In 1600 Ieyasu promised him his father's lands "in the Chiisagata District," but as he said nothing about Numata it was presumably already legally his. </ref>  and he and his family were living there in 1600.

At some point he was given charge of the Sanada castle of [[Numata castle|Numata]] in northwest [[Kozuke province|Kôzuke Province]], apparently in his own right,<ref> In 1600 Ieyasu promised him his father's lands "in the Chiisagata District," but as he said nothing about Numata it was presumably already legally his. </ref>  and he and his family were living there in 1600.

In [[1600]] on the eve of the [[Battle of Sekigahara]] Nobuyuki was ordered by Ieyasu to participate in the attack on [[Uesugi Kagekatsu]] of [[Aizu]], as were his father and brother Nobushige. They got as far as Inuyama in [[Shimotsuke province]] when they received a summons (dated 7/17) from the group allied with [[Ishida Mitsunari]] inviting them to join  against Ieyasu. Masayuki immediately withdrew from Ieyasu's army taking Nobushige with him and returned to Ueda via Numata, where Komatsu refused him admittance, but Nobuyuki stayed with Ieyasu, it is said at his father's direction, presumably so that which ever side won the family would be preserved. On 7/ 24 Ieyasu wrote Nobuyuki a letter thanking him for not going with his father and followed it up three days later by a formal letter giving him his father's possessions in the Chiisagata District (the Ueda area).  

In [[1600]] on the eve of the [[Battle of Sekigahara]] Nobuyuki was ordered by Ieyasu to participate in the attack on [[Uesugi Kagekatsu]] of [[Aizu]], as were his father and brother Nobushige. They got as far as Inuyama in [[Shimotsuke province]] when they received a summons (dated 7/17) from the group allied with [[Ishida Mitsunari]] inviting them to join  against Ieyasu. Masayuki immediately withdrew from Ieyasu's army taking Nobushige with him and returned to Ueda via Numata, where Komatsu refused him admittance, but Nobuyuki stayed with Ieyasu, it is said at his father's direction, presumably so that which ever side won the family would be preserved. On 7/ 24 Ieyasu wrote Nobuyuki a letter thanking him for not going with his father and followed it up three days later by a formal letter giving him his father's possessions in the Chiisagata District (the Ueda area).