- Honda Masanobu
Infobox_Officeholder | name= Honda Masanobu
nationality=Japanese
order=Lord of Tamanawa
term_start=1590
term_end=1616
predecessor=none
successor=Matsudaira Masatsuna
birth_date= 1538
birth_place=Mikawa Province ,Japan
death_date=July 20 ,1616
death_place=Edo ,Japan
spouse=nihongo|Honda Masanobu|本多正信 (1538 –
July 20 ,1616 ) was a commander anddaimyo in the service ofTokugawa Ieyasu inJapan during the Azuchi-Momoyama andEdo period s. [citebook|title=The Cambridge History of Japan|author=John Whitney Hall|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1999|pages=494|id=ISBN 0521223547]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 ofOkubo Tadayo , and accompanied Ieyasu as he crossedIga Province following the assassination of Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji.Masanobu joined
Tokugawa Hidetada 's army for the march along theNakasendō . En route, however, Hidetada attackedSanada Masayuki atUeda Castle against Masanobu's advice, and together they arrived late for theBattle of Sekigahara .Masanobu was a member of the
Tokugawa shogunate and ruled a Han inSagami Province assessed at 20,000 "koku ". He was present at theSiege of Osaka in 1614. Masanobu died several weeks after Ieyasu in 1616.References
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