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Sanada Nobuyuki
真田信之(信幸)
“The Lion of Shinano”
1566–1658 (aged 93)
- Rank / office
- Governor of Izu
- Domain / base
- Numata, Kōzuke → Ueda, Shinano → Matsushiro, Shinano
- Banner / crest
- Six coins
- Battles in 3D
- 1 battle
Portrait · Source: Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
This world, where all things change as they pass: I never thought that it was only a dream.
Death poem of Sanada Nobuyuki
Eldest son of Sanada Masayuki and elder brother of Nobushige (Yukimura). At the first battle of Ueda in Tenshō 13, while his father met the Tokugawa army at Ueda Castle, he held Toishi Castle and fell on the flank of the routed enemy, sealing the victory. He later married Komatsu-hime, daughter of the great Tokugawa retainer Honda Tadakatsu, and became a daimyo on the Tokugawa side. At the time of Sekigahara he parted from his father and brother at Inubushi in Shimotsuke and joined the Eastern Army (the "parting at Inubushi"); after the war he begged for their lives in place of any reward for his own service, and saved them from death. Granted his father's old domain of Ueda, he kept the reading of his name but changed the character for "yuki" that he had shared with his father. In Genna 8 he was moved to Matsushiro in Shinano and laid the foundations of the Matsushiro domain. In old age he asked again and again to retire, but is said to have been kept on by the shogunate as "an ornament of the realm." He died in Manji 1, at the age of 93.
Life and battlesGold dots mark battles you can watch in 3D
- 1585Tenshō 13
First Battle of Ueda
Sallied from Toishi Castle and struck the flank of the routed Tokugawa army.
First Battle of Ueda 800 troops Watch in 3D › Masayuki's eldest son. Posted at Toishi Castle on the ridge to the northeast, he swept down on the flank of the Tokugawa as they broke in the castle town and turned their defeat into a rout. Later known as Sanada Nobuyuki (信之). - 1600Keichō 5
The Parting at Inubushi
Parted from his father and brother to join the Eastern Army, and after the war worked to save their lives.
- 1622Genna 8
To Matsushiro
Moved from Ueda to Matsushiro in Shinano and laid the foundations of the Matsushiro domain.
- 1658Manji 1
Death at 93
One of the last who had known the Sengoku age, he ended his long life at Matsushiro.
