The Four Tokugawa Kings refer to the four retainers of the Tokugawa family, namely Tadashi Sakai, Tadakatsu Honda, Yasumasa Sakakihara, and Naomasa Ii. [Edit this paragraph] Sakai Tadashi, a famous general in the middle and late Warring States Period, the leader of the Four Tokugawa Kings, and Ishikawa Sumasa were called "the most important ministers of the Tokugawa II" and "the veteran heroes of the Tokugawa world" by people at the time. Born in Mikawa in the seventh year of Dayei (1527), the second son of Tadachika Sakai, his childhood name was Kogoro, commonly known as Koheiji. [Edit this paragraph] Honda Tadakatsu Honda Tadakatsu, a famous general in the middle and late Warring States Period, known as "the most powerful general of the Warring States Period" and "Oni's Heihachi", the Four Tokugawa Kings (Tadaji Sakai, Naomasa Ii and Yasumasa Kanbara), Tokugawa One of the Three Heroes of Sichuan (Naomasa Ii and Yasumasa Kanbara). Born in Mikawa on February 8, the 17th year of Tenmon (1548), Honda was the eldest son of Tadaka. His childhood name was Nanosuke, and he was commonly known as Heihachiro. [Edit this paragraph] Sakakihara Yasumasa (1548-June 19, 1606) was a military commander in Japan's Warring States Period and Azuchi-Momoyama Period, a daimyo in the Edo Period, and a retainer of the Tokugawa clan. His father is Sakakihara Nagamasa, his youngest name is Yu Kame, commonly known as Koheita, and his wife is a child of the Osuga clan. One of the Four Tokugawa Kings and the Sixteen Tokugawa Gods. (The Sixteen Tokugawa Gods include: Naomasa Ii, Kasei Uemura, Tadayo Okubo, Tadashi Okubo, Tadashi Sakai, Yasumasa Sakakibara, Kiyohide Takagi, Motoda Torii, Motonobu Torii, Masashige Naito, Masashige Hattori, and Oikayoshi Hiraiwa , Honda Tadakatsu, Matsudaira Yasutada, Yonezu Fujizo, Watanabe Moritsuna) In Chinese, because Sakaki is a Japanese national character, it is not a large five-size font, and it is influenced by the Nobunaga's Ambition series. Affected by it, it is generally represented by Kanhara Yasumasa.
Born in Uenogo, Mikawa Province, the Sakakihara clan was originally a retainer of Sakai Tadashi. Yasumasa was followed by Matsudaira Motoyasu (Tokugawa Ieyasu) as a minor surname since he was a child. In 1566, he took the Yuan Dynasty. Tadakatsu Honda, who was the same age as him, became Hatamoto shoujo and commanded fifty mounted troops.
Later, in the Battle of Komaki 6-1 Nagakute, he defeated the corrupted Miyoshi Hideji (Toyotomi Hideji), and Mori Nagako and Ikeda Kanko died under his troops. . In 1590, it was entrusted to Ueno Kokukan Forest with 100,000 stones. In the Battle of Sekigahara, he followed Tokugawa Hidetada to attack Ueda Castle. After the war, he became the lord of Tatebayashi Domain.
Died of illness in 1606 at the age of 59. . The name of the Dharma is in front of the main hall of Yanglinyuan. The tomb is located at Zendaoji Temple in Kusu-cho, Tatebayashi City, or at Mount Koya in Koya-cho, Wakayama Prefecture. [Edit this paragraph] Ii Naomasa Ii Naomasa from March 4, 1561 to March 24, 1602, was a military commander in Japan's Warring States Period and a retainer of the Tokugawa family. His father was Ii Naomasa, a member of the Toe Country, and he was the vassal ancestor of the Hikone Domain. . One of the Four Heavenly Kings of Tokugawa and the Sixteen Divine Generals of Tokugawa.
Career
He was born in Toe Country, but when he was two years old, his father's immediate relative was executed by Uzuma for being suspected of assassinating Imagawa Uzuma, and he lost the territory of Iigani. Since then he has been on the run. It was not until 1575 that he was finally appreciated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, who once again owned Ii Valley and was rewarded with two thousand stones.
After that, he began to be active on the stage of the Tokugawa family, and even served as the pioneer of Hatamoto. He was on par with the famous Tokugawa generals Honda Tadakatsu and Kanbaru Yasumasa at that time. In 1582, the Takeda clan was destroyed, and Naomasa was among the remaining ministers who surrendered to Tokugawa. Then the red troops of Yamagata Masakai of the Takeda family were reunited. But because Ii was too strict with his subordinates and very warlike, some people called him Ii's red ghost. In the Battle of Nagakute in Komaki 6-1, he performed well for the first time as an Akabi team, and Hideyoshi once spoke highly of him. After the reconciliation between Ieyasu and Hideyoshi, he took up the official position of Servant of the Fifth Rank - 6th - 1st Military Ministry Shaofu.
Minawa, who was entrusted to the Ueno Kingdom in 1590 with a fortune of 120,000 koku, was the first among the retainers of the Tokugawa family. During his period, Minulu Castle was abandoned and Gaoqi Castle was rebuilt in nearby areas.
The Battle of Sekigahara broke out in 1600. In addition to being responsible for lobbying the Daimyo Eastern Army, Matsudaira Tadayoshi, the fourth son who mainly assisted Ieyasu, fought fiercely with Konishi Yukinaga. When he finally pursued the Shimadzu team, he was shot by an iron cannon. As a result, he was injured and fell off his horse.
Later, Ieyasu was entrusted to Ishida Mitsunari's old territory. Sawayama Castle was abolished and rebuilt on the plains into Hikone Castle. Two years later, he died of tetanus at an early age and his legal name was Shojuinden. The great layman of Qingliang Tai'an. The tomb is at Shojuzan Seiryouji Temple in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture.
He has two sons. The eldest son, Naokatsu, was assigned to the Anzhong Domain due to his illness and frailty, while the second son, Naotaka, succeeded the family governor. Over the past two hundred years, there have been five elders in the Jingyi clan. He is one of the important ministers in the shogunate's governance.