Matsudaira Ietada (Katanohara)

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Matsudaira.

Matsudaira Ietada (松平家忠, Matsudaira Ietada^? 1547-September 8, 1600) was relatively a senior retainer to the clan of Tokugawa throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As Ietada was a direct relative to the reputed Tokugawa Ieyasu, he was naturally obligated to support his fellow clansmen by the time at which he was eligible for service as vassal; and by the year of 1570, Ietada had supported the cause of Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga during the Battle of Anegawa that same year. Following with the crucially wounding Mikatagahara of 1573, Ietada was directly appointed to command the majority of Ieyasu's leftern wing, whereat in 1575, he took the field as a supporting general initially during the Battle of Nagashino. After additionally supporting the aspirations of his lord during the 1584 Komaki Campaign, Ietada would be ordered by Ieyasu at some initial time to become a primary defender of Torii Mototada's Fushimi castle; and by the prelude to the Sekigahara Campaign in 1600, such a defense proved as being entirely crucial to the castle's survival. As the enemy generals--the majority being in a position at which they were forced by their hostage lord to heed Ishida Mitsunari's demand--assaulted Fushimi by the 27th of August, the entire garrison defense, including Ietada, were entirely shredded apart by September 8th, ending with Mototada's ritual suicide, and thus a deppressing course of circumstance for Ieyasu. It is also recorded that Ietada had been regularly called by the surname 'Katanohara', giving rise to the relatively blatant speculation that he was a contributing factor--either through headship or vassalship--to the Katanohara before initially supporting his respective relative, Ieyasu.