Torii Tadayoshi (Sengoku)

• Died: 1572
• Japanese: 鳥居忠義 (Torii Tadayoshi)

Tadayoshi served Matsudaira Hirotada and then Tokugawa Ieyasu as a councilor and an administrator of finances at Okazaki castle. He is best remembered for hoarding supplies secretly in Okazaki castle in the expectation of Ieyasu's return from Sumpu and was described as the model of the Mikawa samurai. He was the father of Torii Mototada.

References

• Initial text from Samurai-Archives.com FWSeal & CEWest, 2005