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*''Died: [[1610]]''
 
*''Died: [[1610]]''
 
*''Distinction: [[Shimazu clan]] [[karo|karô]], assistant general<!--副大将-->''
 
*''Distinction: [[Shimazu clan]] [[karo|karô]], assistant general<!--副大将-->''
*''Japanese'': 平田太郎左衛門尉僧宗 ''(Hirata Tarousaemonjou Masamune)''
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*''Japanese'': [[平田]] 太郎左衛門尉 僧宗 ''(Hirata Tarousaemonjou Masamune)''
  
 
Masamune was a senior councilor to [[Shimazu Tadatsune]], who played a role in the [[1609]] [[invasion of Ryukyu]].  
 
Masamune was a senior councilor to [[Shimazu Tadatsune]], who played a role in the [[1609]] [[invasion of Ryukyu]].  

Latest revision as of 18:29, 21 January 2019

Masamune was a senior councilor to Shimazu Tadatsune, who played a role in the 1609 invasion of Ryukyu.

Despite the support of a number of key Shimazu retainers, the younger Kabayama Hisataka was chosen over Masamune, at a meeting of the senior retainers of the clan on 1609/2/6, to lead the invasion; Masamune served as his second-in-command.

He was assassinated on Tadatsune's orders on suspicion of treason.

He is known in some records as 他魯済 (pinyin: Taluji), a Chinese approximation of the pronunciation of Tarôsae, the middle part of his name.

References

  • Initial text from Sengoku Biographical Dictionary (Samurai-Archives.com) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005
  • Rekidai Hôan. Item 1-18-03.
  • Turnbull, Stephen. The Samurai Capture a King: Okinawa 1609. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2009.