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HONDA Heihachiro Tadakatsu was born in Mikawa in 1548 as the eldest son of his father Tadataka. He was brought up by his uncle Tadazane after his father's death and became to serve TOKUGAWA Ieyasu, MATSUDAIRA Motonobu at that time.
He participated in fifty-seven battles in his life and was never injured himself in them. He distinguished in many of them includes the Battle of Sekigahara. When ODA Nobunaga was killed in the Honnoji Incident, he advises Ieyasu who was heading to Kyoto to return to Mikawa by way of Iga, so-called Iga goe (*). After the Battle of Sekigahara, he became the lord of Kuwana Castle in Ise, current Mie.
He had two sons and five daughters. One of his daughters was called Ina (Komatsu hime) and married SANADA Nobuyuki. And his spear called Tonbokiri is one of the Three Great Spears of Japan.
In this series. he is described as a man who is loyal to Ieyasu and supports him together with other vassals as SAKAI Tadatsugu and ISHIKAWA Kazumasa.
(*) Because Iga is mountainous and the it's hard to capture or kill them
there. And local samurais in the province assumed an attitude to
protect Ieyasu.
The image shows Masahiro Takashima as Honda Tadakatsu (From the official website of "Onna Joshu Naotora")
