Hidenaga Matsudaira (1514-1545) was a general of the Tokugawa clan of Mikawa Province during the Sengoku Period.
Biography[]
Hidenaga Matsudaira was born in 1514 in Mikawa Prefecture in present-day Japan, and was a vassal of the Tokugawa/Matsudaira clan. Hidenaga was made the Commissioner for Warfare under Hirotada Tokugawa, and he accompanied his older master on an invasion of Owari Prefecture in 1545. Hidenaga's leadership skills aided him in commanding the main army of the Tokugawa clan, who were a de facto army of the Imagawa daimyo Yoshimoto Imagawa, who was the lord of all of southern Japan's Kanto region.
In command of the army in conjunction with his daimyo Hirotada, Hidenaga invaded southern Owari Province and angered the Oda lord Nobuhide Oda, who personally took command of an army and headed south to meet the Tokugawa invaders in a final encounter. Hidenaga and Hirotada both took part in combat themselves when the Oda attacked their positions, and both of them were killed in battle.