Ogasawara Nagatada

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Ogasawara".

Ogasawara Nagatada (小笠原 長忠^?) (?-1590?), also known as Ogasawara Ujisuke (小笠原 氏助^?), was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, who served the Imagawa, Tokugawa, and Takeda clans. Nagatada, the son of Ogasawara Ujioki, first served the Imagawa clan together with his father. However, after the death of Imagawa Yoshimoto, he became a Tokugawa retainer, and succeeded to family headship in 1569. He served at the battles of Kanegasaki and Anegawa with distinction, and later defended Takatenjin Castle against the attack led by Takeda Katsuyori. Nagatada surrendered to the Takeda clan, and became a Takeda retainer, receiving the Omosu District of Suruga Province as a fief, where he would relatively remain neutral within up until the Invasion of Kai Province during 1582. After the fall of the Takeda he sought refuge with the Hojo clan of Odawara. His precise date of death is unknown, but he is believed by some to have been captured by Ieyasu following the fall of Odawara, and executed.

Nagatada held the court title Danjō no chū (弾正忠^?).

Ogasawara clan genealogy

The mon of the Ogasawara clan

Nagatada was part of the senior branch of the Ogasawara.^[1]

The Ogasawara clan originated in 12th century Shinano province.^[1] They claim descent from Takeda Yoshikiyo and as part of the Seiwa-Genji.^[2] The great grand-son of Yoshikiyo, Nagakiyo, was the first to take the name Ogasawara. The area controlled by the senior branch of his descendants grew to encompass the entire province of Shinano.^[3] Nagakiyo's grandson, Ogawawara Hidemasa (1569–1615), served Ieyasu; and in 1590, Hidemasa received Koga Domain (20,000 koku) in Shimōsa province. In 1601, Ieyasu transferred Hidemasa to Iida Domain (50,000 koku) in Shinano ; then, in 1613, he was able to return to the home of his forebears, Fukashi Castle (80,000 koku),^[2] now known as Matsumoto Castle.^[4]

This senior branch of the fudai Ogasawara from the beginning were daimyō at Fukashi; then, in 1617, the daimyō was transferred to Akashi Domain (120,000 koku) in Harima province. In the years spanning 1632 through 1868, the descendants of this branch of the Ogasawara were daimyō at Kokura Domain (150,000 koku)^[5] in Buzen province;^[1] and Nagatada's descendants would be part of this line.

The Ogasawara would prosper during the years of Tokugawa shogunate. During the Edo period, the Ogasawara were identified as one of the fudai or insider daimyō clans which were hereditary vassels or allies of the Tokdugawa,^[1] in contrast with the tozama or outsider clans.

The heads of fudai Ogasawara clan branches would be ennobled in the Meiji period.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Alpert, Georges. (1888). Ancien Japon, p.75.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Papinot, Jacques. (2003). Nobiliare du Japon -- Ogasawara, pp. 44-45; Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon. (in French/German).
3. ^ Papinot, p. 44.
4. ^ Rowthorn, Chris. (2005). Japan, p. 245; Wa-pedia web site
5. ^ Papinot, p. 45; "Kokura Castle," Kitakyushu Bridges, p. 2; Kokura Castle.

References

• Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888). Ancien Japon. Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha.
• Papinot, Jacques Edmund Joseph. (1906) Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha...Click link for digitized 1906 Nobiliaire du japon (2003)

External links

• (Japanese) Takatenjin-jōshi rekishi nenpyō (17 Feb. 2008)
• (Japanese) "Fuchū Ogasawara-shi" on Harimaya.com (17 Feb. 2008)

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