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*''Japanese:'' 茶屋四郎次郎清信 (''Chaya Shirôjirô Kiyonobu'')

*''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]].

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 Shirojiro Kiyotada|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.

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.