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Portrait of Torii Mototada

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Torii Mototada

鳥居元忠

“Mirror of the Mikawa Samurai”

1539–1600 (aged 62)

Rank / office
Hikoemon-no-jō
Domain / base
Gunnai, Kai → Yahagi, Shimōsa
Banner / crest
Torii bamboo
Battles in 3D
1 battle

Portrait · Source: Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Son of Torii Tadayoshi of Mikawa. At 13 he became an attendant to the boy Takechiyo (Ieyasu), then a hostage of the Imagawa, and served him for half a century as the most senior of his hereditary retainers. In the Tenshō Jingo War he beat the Hōjō at Kurokoma in Kai and was granted the Gunnai district. At the first battle of Ueda in Tenshō 13 he attacked Ueda Castle with 7,000 men alongside Ōkubo Tadayo, Hiraiwa Chikayoshi and others, but Sanada Masayuki's stratagem lured them into the castle town, and they fell back after losing many men in the Kangawa River. After the move to the Kantō he held Yahagi in Shimōsa with 40,000 koku. In Keichō 5, when Ieyasu set out against Aizu, Mototada was left in charge of Fushimi Castle. On the eve of Ieyasu's departure the two are said to have drunk together and parted knowing they would never meet again in this life. He withstood the assault of 40,000 Western troops for thirteen days and was killed. The blood-stained floorboards of the castle survive as "blood ceilings" in temples across Kyoto, and his loyalty was praised as the "mirror of the Mikawa samurai."

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  1. 1551Tenbun 20

    Attendant to Takechiyo

    At 13 he began serving Takechiyo (Ieyasu), then a hostage of the Imagawa.

  2. 1582Tenshō 10

    Battle of Kurokoma

    Beat the Hōjō at Kurokoma in Kai during the Tenshō Jingo War and was granted Gunnai.

  3. 1585Tenshō 13

    First Battle of Ueda

    Attacked Ueda Castle with Ōkubo Tadayo and others, but fell into Sanada Masayuki's trap and was heavily defeated.

    First Battle of Ueda Commander-in-chief 3,000 troops Watch in 3D › Ieyasu's companion since childhood and the core of the Tokugawa force sent against Ueda. Having pushed too deep into the castle town, he was caught between the castle and the ambush and broke toward the Kangawa.
  4. 1590Tenshō 18

    Yahagi, 40,000 Koku

    Following Ieyasu's move to the Kantō, he was granted 40,000 koku at Yahagi in Shimōsa.

  5. 1600Keichō 5

    Death at Fushimi Castle

    Held the castle for thirteen days against a great Western army and was killed, aged 62.

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