Honda Masanobu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Military commander and daimyo in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Place of Birth: Mikawa Province, Japan
About Honda Masanobu
- Honda Masanobu (?? ??, 1538 – July 20, 1616) was a commander and daimyo in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods.In 1563, when an uprising against Ieyasu occurred in Mikawa Province, Masanobu took the side of the peasants against Ieyasu.
- He fled from the Tokugawa, rejoining them in the 1570s or 1580s at the behest of Okubo Tadayo, and accompanied Ieyasu as he crossed Iga Province following the assassination of Oda Nobunaga at Honno-ji.
- In 1600, Masanobu joined Tokugawa Hidetada's army for the march along the Nakasendo.
- En route, however, Hidetada attacked Sanada Masayuki at Ueda Castle against Masanobu's advice, and together they arrived late for the Battle of Sekigahara.
- Masanobu was a member of the Tokugawa shogunate and ruled a Han in Sagami Province assessed at 22,000 koku.
- He was present at the Siege of Osaka in 1614.
- Masanobu died several weeks after Ieyasu in 1616.
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