Honda Masanobu

Honda Masanobu
本多 正信
Daimyō of Tamanawa
In office 1590–1616
Succeeded by	Matsudaira Masatsuna
Personal details
Born	1538 Mikawa Province, Japan
Died	July 20, 1616 Edo, Japan
Resting place	Nishi Hongan-ji, Kyoto, Japan
Military service
Allegiance	Tokugawa clan Tokugawa shogunate
Battles/wars	Battle of Azukizaka (1564) Battle of Komaki-Nagakute (1584) Siege of Ueda (1600) Siege of Osaka (1614)

Honda Masanobu (本多 正信, 1538 – July 20, 1616) was a commander and daimyō in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Japan during the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods.^[1]

In 1563, when an uprising against Ieyasu occurred in Mikawa Province, Masanobu took the side of the peasants against Ieyasu at Battle of Batogahara. He fled from the Tokugawa, rejoining them in the 1570s or 1580s at the behest of Ōkubo Tadayo, and accompanied Ieyasu as he crossed Iga Province following the assassination of Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji.

In 1600, 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 22,000 koku. He was present at the siege of Osaka in 1614. Masanobu died several weeks after Ieyasu in 1616.

It is said that other Tokugawa retainers disliked Masanobu, such as Sakakibara Yasumasa who regarded him as "corrupt", and Honda Tadakatsu though Masanobu a coward.^[2]

Preceded by none

Daimyō of Tamanawa 1590–1616

Succeeded by Matsudaira Masatsuna

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