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*''Born: [[1545]]''
*''Died: [[1596]]''
*''Japanese:'' 茶屋四郎次郎清信 (''Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyonobu'')
Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyonobu, likely the first of the line, was a [[ronin]] of the [[Nakajima family]], crippled in the wars of the [[Sengoku Period]], who was adopted into the [[Chaya family]], and established a humble business in [[Kyoto]] making drapes. He developed a strong business relationship with one of his clients, [[Matsudaira Hirotada]], and later sent his son [[Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyotada]] (1584-1603) to [[Mikawa province]] to serve as a squire to Hirotada's son, now known as [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]].
Kiyonobu thus became one of the primary suppliers of the Tokugawa family, and quickly came into great wealth and influence in Kyoto. He accompanied Ieyasu in battle, at [[battle of Mikata ga Hara|Mikata ga Hara]] (1572), and served him in other ways, as an intelligence agent in Kyoto and in secretly transporting messages and goods for Ieyasu during the time when [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] held power. Chaya was supposedly the one who informed Ieyasu of [[Oda Nobunaga]]'s [[Incident at Honnoji|death]] in 1582, and thus allowed him to escape the forces of [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] and Hideyoshi, who seized power in the aftermath.
He is said to have helped design the layout of the city of [[Edo]], and for his last year or so of life, did not leave Ieyasu's side. He repeatedly refused formal posts as governor of various Tokugawa lands, insisting that he was not a soldier.
==References==
*''Chaya Shirōjirō'' in [[Louis Frederic|Frederic, Louis]] (2002). <u>Japan Encyclopedia</u>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
*[[George Sansom|Sansom, George]] (1963). "A History of Japan: 1615-1867." Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
[[Category:Merchants]]
*''Died: [[1596]]''
*''Japanese:'' 茶屋四郎次郎清信 (''Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyonobu'')
Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyonobu, likely the first of the line, was a [[ronin]] of the [[Nakajima family]], crippled in the wars of the [[Sengoku Period]], who was adopted into the [[Chaya family]], and established a humble business in [[Kyoto]] making drapes. He developed a strong business relationship with one of his clients, [[Matsudaira Hirotada]], and later sent his son [[Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyotada]] (1584-1603) to [[Mikawa province]] to serve as a squire to Hirotada's son, now known as [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]].
Kiyonobu thus became one of the primary suppliers of the Tokugawa family, and quickly came into great wealth and influence in Kyoto. He accompanied Ieyasu in battle, at [[battle of Mikata ga Hara|Mikata ga Hara]] (1572), and served him in other ways, as an intelligence agent in Kyoto and in secretly transporting messages and goods for Ieyasu during the time when [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] held power. Chaya was supposedly the one who informed Ieyasu of [[Oda Nobunaga]]'s [[Incident at Honnoji|death]] in 1582, and thus allowed him to escape the forces of [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] and Hideyoshi, who seized power in the aftermath.
He is said to have helped design the layout of the city of [[Edo]], and for his last year or so of life, did not leave Ieyasu's side. He repeatedly refused formal posts as governor of various Tokugawa lands, insisting that he was not a soldier.
==References==
*''Chaya Shirōjirō'' in [[Louis Frederic|Frederic, Louis]] (2002). <u>Japan Encyclopedia</u>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
*[[George Sansom|Sansom, George]] (1963). "A History of Japan: 1615-1867." Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
[[Category:Merchants]]