Yūki Hideyasu
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Yūki Hideyasu (結城秀康?) (March 1, 1574–June 2, 1607) was a daimyo in Japan who lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods. Born the second son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, he established the Echizen Fukui Han.
As part of an agreement with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ieyasu gave his son to Hideyoshi for adoption (in reality, as a hostage). At his coming-of-age ceremony, the son received one kanji from his natural father and one from his adoptive father and took the name Hideyasu. In 1589, a son was born to Hideyoshi, who then arranged a marriage between Hideyasu and a niece of the daimyo Yūki Harutomo; Hideyasu took the surname Yūki at that time, and became the head of the Yūki family.
Following the Battle of Sekigahara, he received a transfer from the fief the Yūki family held in Shimosa Province (assessed at 101,000 koku) to one in Fukui (670,000 koku). In 1604, he took the surname Matsudaira. When he died in 1607, his first son Matsudaira Tadanao succeeded him.
[edit] External links
- Fukui City Museum (in Japanese)
