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 and daimyo in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods. [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 of Okubo Tadayo, and accompanied Ieyasu as he crossed Iga Province following the assassination of Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji.

Masanobu joined Tokugawa Hidetada's army for the march along the Nakasendō. 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 20,000 "koku". He was present at the Siege of Osaka in 1614. Masanobu died several weeks after Ieyasu in 1616.

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