| + | Tokugawa Tadateru, also known as Matsudaira Tadateru, was the seventh son of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. His mother was [[Ocha no Tsubone]]. Despite being only a child, he was married to the daughter of [[Date Masamune]] in [[1599]]. He was later adopted by [[Matsudaira Yasutada]] and received a 180,000 ''[[koku]]'' fief in [[Shinano province|Shinano]] (Sakura). |
− | Tadateru’s mother was [[Ocha no Tsubone]]. Despite being an infant, he was married to the daughter of [[Date Masamune]] in [[1599]. He was later adopted by [[Matsudaira Yasutada]] and received a 180,000 [[koku]] fief in [[Shinano province|Shinano]] (Sakura). In [[1610]] he received the fief of [[Takada clan|Takada]] in [[Echigo province|Echigo]], worth 620,000 koku. Following a scandal during the [[Siege of Osaka Castle]], to which Tadateru had come only tardily, he was accused of plotting against Hidetada and lost his lands. He eventually settled in [[Suo province]], where he lived in obscurity to an advanced age, the last of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Ieyasu’s]] sons to pass away.
| + | In [[1605]], he was sent to meet with [[Toyotomi Hideyori]], as part of formal social audiences surrounding the appointment of [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] to the position of Shogun. Since Hideyori could not pay a formal visit to Hidetada, for fear of it being seen as an admission of inferior status, and for fear of perhaps even being captured, Tadateru instead went to him, in [[Osaka castle]].<ref>Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 93.</ref> |
| + | In [[1610]] Tadateru received the fief of [[Takada han|Takada]] in [[Echigo province]], worth 620,000 ''koku''. Following a scandal during the [[Siege of Osaka Castle]], to which Tadateru had come only tardily, he was accused of plotting against Hidetada and lost his lands. In [[1616]], he was exiled to [[Ise province]]. He eventually settled in [[Suo province]], where he lived in obscurity to an advanced age, the last of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Ieyasu’s]] sons to pass away. |