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* ''Born: [[1555]]''
* ''Died: [[1620]]''
* ''Titles: Keizaikikakuchôkan, Ôkura Daijin''
* ''Son: [[Suzuki Shichiemon|Shichiemon]]''
* ''Distinction: [[Date clan|Date]] retainer''
Motonobu, whose origins are unclear (one opinion is that he was from the [[Hozumi clan|Hozumi]] family of the Aizu district of [[Mutsu Province]]), served [[Date Masamune]]. He was skilled in administrative matters and so was named Masamune's Minister of Finance (Ôkura Daijin) and the Director of the Economic Planning Agency (Keizaikikakuchôkan). He was also well-versed in the tea ceremony. He is best known for actually composing what amounted to a constitution for a dreamed-of Date shôgunate. When he was on his deathbed, and knowing that his cherished hopes for Masamune would never become reality, he had the documents burned in a bamboo basket lest they be discovered by the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] (and be used against Masamune). As his eldest son had predeceased him, he was succeeded by his second son, known, like his father, as Shichiemon.
==References==
{{biodict}}
[[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
* ''Died: [[1620]]''
* ''Titles: Keizaikikakuchôkan, Ôkura Daijin''
* ''Son: [[Suzuki Shichiemon|Shichiemon]]''
* ''Distinction: [[Date clan|Date]] retainer''
Motonobu, whose origins are unclear (one opinion is that he was from the [[Hozumi clan|Hozumi]] family of the Aizu district of [[Mutsu Province]]), served [[Date Masamune]]. He was skilled in administrative matters and so was named Masamune's Minister of Finance (Ôkura Daijin) and the Director of the Economic Planning Agency (Keizaikikakuchôkan). He was also well-versed in the tea ceremony. He is best known for actually composing what amounted to a constitution for a dreamed-of Date shôgunate. When he was on his deathbed, and knowing that his cherished hopes for Masamune would never become reality, he had the documents burned in a bamboo basket lest they be discovered by the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] (and be used against Masamune). As his eldest son had predeceased him, he was succeeded by his second son, known, like his father, as Shichiemon.
==References==
{{biodict}}
[[Category:Samurai]][[Category:Sengoku Period]]
