Matsudaira

MR. JOYCE: We are glad to welcome as our speaker today His Excellency the Honourable Dr. Koto Matsudaira, the Ambassador of Japan to Canada, who will speak to us on "Japan's Position in the Far East."

Japan's Position in the Far East 1955

The generosity of Matsudaira Ko [u] passes measure.

Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

Thus, in the year of Ieyasu's decease, his sixth son, Matsudaira

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

This mercenary custom was strictly interdicted by the Matsudaira regent, who justly saw in it a danger to the solidity of the military class.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Matsudaira, origin of family; of Aizu, etc. -- Hideyasu (1574-1607), son of Ieyasu

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Echigo, barrier settlement (645) against Yemishi; and Matsudaira

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

After a few generations, Chikauji, the then representative of the family, had to fly to the village of Matsudaira in Mikawa province, taking the name of Matsudaira.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Yoshimoto, the Matsudaira chieftain retired at once to his own castle of Okazaki, in the province of Mikawa.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Tsunayoshi, giving an ideograph from his name to Yasuaki, called him Yoshiyasu, and authorized him to assume the family name of Matsudaira, conferring upon him at the same time a new domain in the province of Kai yielding 150,000 koku.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

The Matsudaira of Aizu, Takamatsu, and Matsuyama; the Ii of Hikone, and the Sakai of Himeji -- these were the families which performed the functions of tamarizume as a hereditary right.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886