Honda Masazumi was a prominent minister in the service of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Tokugawa Hidetada]].
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Masazumi's activities were largely confined to civil affairs and, like his father, he has been accused of being an inveterate schemer. At the end of the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]] ([[1614]]), it was Masazumi whose men filled in the outer and second moats of the castle, in violation of the peace treaty. He was dispossessed in [[1622]] and died in [[Dewa province]].
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Honda claimed descent from the [[Fujiwara clan]]. As ''shitsuji'' to Ieyasu and Hidetada, his activities were largely confined to civil affairs and, like his father, he has been accused of being an inveterate schemer. At the end of the [[Osaka Winter Campaign]] ([[1614]]), it was Masazumi whose men filled in the outer and second moats of the castle, in violation of the peace treaty. He was dispossessed of his lands in [[1622]] and died in [[Dewa province]].
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*Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 14.