Letter by Honda Tadakatsu
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作者本多忠勝（平八郎）
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ホンダタダカツヒツショジョウ
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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- AW-CEN-001650-0002
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- CC BY Images license
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
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Honda Tadakatsu (1548-1610) was an army general who lived from the end of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period to the early Edo Period. He was born in Mikawa Province (Aichi Prefecture) and was known by his common name of Heihachiro. Since his father, Tadataka, was killed in a battle, Tadakatsu was enlisted into the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu at a very young age. He was only 13 when he went to war in 1560, but thereafter, he won victories in many battles--Anegawa (1570), Nagashino (1575), and Komaki and Nagakute (1584), to cite a few examples. After the Battle of Sekigahara, he was given as fief Kuwana Castle in Ise Province (Mie Prefecture). In the infancy of the Tokugawa Bakufu (a military government with shogun as the supreme commander), Tadakatsu was among the “Four Deva Kings” of the government, along with other generals, such as Sakai Tadatsugu, Sakakibara Yasumasa, and Iyu Naomasa. Nevertheless, after Ieyasu (the founder of the Tokugawa Bakufu) retired from the supreme commander’s post, Tadakatsu was removed from the center of politics; subsequently, he died in Kuwana in 1610 at age 63.In this letter, Tadakatsu sends instructions to the supervisor Koyanagi Yasukebe (perhaps one of his vassals) to prepare a document listing the names of land lots allocated to both newcomers and old veterans serving on the estate, as well as the harvest estimations for the newcomers. Perhaps this letter was written about the time Tadakatsu was given the new fief in Kuwana. He signed it “Chusho,” which is a Chinese name for Director General; he had been appointed to this post in the Ministry of Central Affairs when he was 41.
古参之衆新参衆へはや出候知行所付之帳又新参衆へ知行未出シ候ハぬ米計出知行高積り書立て早可給候恐々謹言中書「封」小柳弥助兵衛殿まいる
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