Ōkubo Tadasuke

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Memorial of Okubo Tadasuke

Ōkubo Tadasuke (大久保 忠佐, 1537 – 9 November 1613) was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period and early Edo period. He was the head of Numazu Domain in Suruga Province.[1]

In 1572, He participate in the battle of Hitokotosaka along with Honda Tadakatsu against Takeda clan forces.[2]

Tadasuke was established at Numazu in 1601.

Jōzan Yuasa, a samurai retainer of Okayama clan and confucian scholar who authored many anecdotes during Edo period, has recorded that Tadasuke once boasted he only ever received 13 wounds in battle during his lifetime as soldier.[3]

When he died in 1613, he left no heir; and the domain reverted to the Tokugawa shogunate.[1]

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Emblem (mon) of the Ōkubo clan
  1. ^ a b Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Ōkubo" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 46; retrieved 2013-4-10.
  2. ^ Mitsutoshi Takayanagi (1958). 戰國戰記 (in Japanese). 春秋社. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  3. ^ Jōzan Yuasa; Tōzō Suzuki (1965). 常山紀談 Volume 2. 角川書店. p. 101. Retrieved 8 May 2024.

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Preceded by
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Daimyō of Numazu
1601–1613
Succeeded by