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*''Born: [[1610]]''
*''Died: [[1673]]''<ref>Luke Roberts gives [[1662]] as the date of Sadamasa's death, while encyclopedias such as the ''Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten'', ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'', and ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'' give either [[1672]] or 1673 as the year. The ''Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten'' gives the date of his death as 1673/1/11, though the ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'' gives the date as 11/24.</ref>
*''Japanese'': [[松平]]定政 ''(Matsudaira Sadamasa)''
Matsudaira Sadamasa was a half-brother of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], ''[[Noto province|Noto]] no kami'', and lord of [[Kariya han]] in [[Mikawa province]].
He was born in [[Fushimi castle]], the sixth son of [[Matsudaira Sadakatsu]]. In [[1633]], he became a [[page]] (''koshô''<!--小性-->) under [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]]; the following year he was granted a 5,000 ''[[koku]]'' fief, and was made head of the pages. He was then granted the 7,000 ''koku'' domain of [[Nagashima han]] in [[Ise province]] the following year ([[1635]]), and the year after that, continued as an attendant to the shogun.
Sadamasa was made lord of Kariya han, a 20,000 ''koku'' domain, in [[1649]].
When Shogun Iemitsu died in [[1651]]/4 and was succeeded by his ten-year-old son, [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]], a group of [[roju|Elders]] led by [[Hoshina Masayuki]] took on the responsibility of overseeing shogunate affairs and policy until the young shogun came of age. In the seventh month of that year, Sadamasa sent a missive to the shogunate formally protesting their policies. He asserted his loyalty to the shogun but declared that he could not serve under a ruling council that governed in such a way, and that he had taken the tonsure. Sadamasa offered to return his lands - Kariya domain - to the shogunate, and suggested that the wealth he was thus returning could be spent to help bolster the income of poor ''[[hatamoto]]''.
The ruling council declared Sadamasa insane, [[attainder]]ed him (took back his domain so that another ''daimyô'' could be enfeoffed in those lands), and placed him into the care of his older brother, [[Matsudaira Sadayuki]], lord of [[Matsuyama han]] on [[Shikoku]], where he lived out the rest of his life in forced retirement.
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9D%BE%E5%B9%B3%E5%AE%9A%E6%94%BF Matsudaira Sadamasa]." ''Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten'' 朝日日本歴史人物事典. Asahi Shinbun shuppan.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9D%BE%E5%B9%B3%E5%AE%9A%E6%94%BF Matsudaira Sadamasa]." ''Digital-ban Nihon jinmei daijiten'' デジタル版 日本人名大辞典. Kodansha, 2009.
*[[Luke Roberts|Roberts, Luke]]. ''Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan''. University of Hawaii Press, 2012. p77.
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*''Died: [[1673]]''<ref>Luke Roberts gives [[1662]] as the date of Sadamasa's death, while encyclopedias such as the ''Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten'', ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'', and ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'' give either [[1672]] or 1673 as the year. The ''Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten'' gives the date of his death as 1673/1/11, though the ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'' gives the date as 11/24.</ref>
*''Japanese'': [[松平]]定政 ''(Matsudaira Sadamasa)''
Matsudaira Sadamasa was a half-brother of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], ''[[Noto province|Noto]] no kami'', and lord of [[Kariya han]] in [[Mikawa province]].
He was born in [[Fushimi castle]], the sixth son of [[Matsudaira Sadakatsu]]. In [[1633]], he became a [[page]] (''koshô''<!--小性-->) under [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]]; the following year he was granted a 5,000 ''[[koku]]'' fief, and was made head of the pages. He was then granted the 7,000 ''koku'' domain of [[Nagashima han]] in [[Ise province]] the following year ([[1635]]), and the year after that, continued as an attendant to the shogun.
Sadamasa was made lord of Kariya han, a 20,000 ''koku'' domain, in [[1649]].
When Shogun Iemitsu died in [[1651]]/4 and was succeeded by his ten-year-old son, [[Tokugawa Ietsuna]], a group of [[roju|Elders]] led by [[Hoshina Masayuki]] took on the responsibility of overseeing shogunate affairs and policy until the young shogun came of age. In the seventh month of that year, Sadamasa sent a missive to the shogunate formally protesting their policies. He asserted his loyalty to the shogun but declared that he could not serve under a ruling council that governed in such a way, and that he had taken the tonsure. Sadamasa offered to return his lands - Kariya domain - to the shogunate, and suggested that the wealth he was thus returning could be spent to help bolster the income of poor ''[[hatamoto]]''.
The ruling council declared Sadamasa insane, [[attainder]]ed him (took back his domain so that another ''daimyô'' could be enfeoffed in those lands), and placed him into the care of his older brother, [[Matsudaira Sadayuki]], lord of [[Matsuyama han]] on [[Shikoku]], where he lived out the rest of his life in forced retirement.
==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9D%BE%E5%B9%B3%E5%AE%9A%E6%94%BF Matsudaira Sadamasa]." ''Asahi Nihon rekishi jinbutsu jiten'' 朝日日本歴史人物事典. Asahi Shinbun shuppan.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9D%BE%E5%B9%B3%E5%AE%9A%E6%94%BF Matsudaira Sadamasa]." ''Digital-ban Nihon jinmei daijiten'' デジタル版 日本人名大辞典. Kodansha, 2009.
*[[Luke Roberts|Roberts, Luke]]. ''Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan''. University of Hawaii Press, 2012. p77.
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[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
