Matsudaira Tadateru

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Matsudaira.

Matsudaira Tadateru

Matsudaira Tadateru (松平 忠輝, February 16, 1592 – August 24, 1683) was a daimyō during the Edo
period of Japan. He was the sixth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was born in Edo Castle during the year
of the dragon (tatsu), and as a child his name was Tatsuchiyo (辰千代). His mother was Lady Chaa (
茶阿局 Chaa no Tsubone), a concubine of Ieyasu. Ieyasu sent the boy to live with a vassal, Minagawa
Hiroteru, daimyō of the Minagawa Domain in Shimotsuke Province.

Matsudaira Tadateru's grave, at Teishoin in Suwa, Nagano

In 1599, Ieyasu granted him a fief in Musashi Province, and increased his holdings in 1602 and 1603
with transfers first to Shimōsa and then to Shinano Provinces. Tadateru married Irohahime, the first
daughter of Date Masamune, in 1606. In 1610, Tadateru became daimyo of Takada in Echigo
Province. He had interests in martial arts, tea, and foreign intercourse. It is said that he was baptized
a Christian.

Tadateru was assigned to remain in Edo during the Winter Campaign of the Siege of Osaka (1614).
He participated in the Summer Campaign (1615), but his older brother, the then shōgun Tokugawa
Hidetada, relieved him of command and exiled him to Ise, then Hida, and finally Shinano Province,
where he remained until his death.

A 1987 television show starring Ken Matsudaira dramatized the life of Matsudaira Tadateru.

Tadateru was posthumously pardoned in 1984 by Tokugawa Tsunenari, the head of the former
shogunal house.

Family

Father: Tokugawa Ieyasu

Mother: Lady Chaa

Adopted Father: Matsudaira Yasutada (1546–1618)

Wife: Irohahime

Concubine: Otake no Kata

Children:

Tokumatsu (1614-1632) by Otake

Gotakehime by Otake