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Sakai Tadatsugu (酒井 忠次, 1527 – 17 December 1596) was one of the most favored and most successful military commanders serving Tokugawa Ieyasu in the late Sengoku period.
Sep 17, 2023 · Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings: Sakai Tadatsugu, the oldest and most loyal retainer of the family, skilled in diplomacy. He gained the trust of Ieyasu by defeating Shibata Katsuie in the vanguard. He was also a retainer of Ieyasu’s father, Hirotada, and was the oldest general among Ieyasu’s close associates. Illustration/Tadashi Sato.
Sep 29, 2013 · 1. Sakai Tadatsugu (酒井忠次, 1527-1596) Let´s start with the eldest of the four, Sakai Tadatsugu. Tadatsugu war born in the seventh year of Daiei (大永, 1527) as second son of the Matsudaira-retainer Sakai Tadachika (酒井忠親) in Ida Castle (井田城) in Mikawa province.
Tadatsugu Sakai was 15 years older than Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was the oldest of the four so-called Tokugawa Four Heavenly Kings (in addition to Tadatsugu, Tadakatsu Honda, Yasumasa Sakakibara, and Naomasa Ii), but he often took the lead in battles and attacked the enemy with his favorite spear.
Jun 5, 2017 · Sakai Tadatsugu was a daimyo during the Sengoku period who belonged to the senior branch of the Sakai family, which had been divided four generations prior. He was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s most distinguished samurai and belonged to an elite group known as the “Four Guardians of the Tokugawa”.
Japanese: 酒井 忠次 (Sakai Tadatsugu) Tadatsugu was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's most notable commanders. After Ieyasu split from the Imagawa clan after 1560, Tadatsugu (a vocal supporter of the break) was given command of Yoshida castle, which guarded the coastal road way into Mikawa from Tôtômi.
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Tadatsugu SAKAI was a Japanese military commander in Mikawa Province who was active from the Sengoku period (Japan) to the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He was a vassal of the Tokugawa Clan , and the first head of the Sakai family in the position of Saemon no jo (third-ranked officer of the Left Division of the Outer Palace Guards) of the Sakai Clan.
