page_title: Tada Kasuke
section_title: Family life
hierarchical_section_title: Tada Kasuke / Family life
caption_attribution_description: English: Tada homestead; designated as a cultural asset of Nagano Prefecture.
context_page_description: Tada Kasuke was a Japanese farmer who led a failed appeal for lowered taxes in Azumidaira, a part of the Matsumoto Domain under the control of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was caught and executed along with twenty-seven farmers without trial. The rebellion has been called the Jōkyō Uprising, or the Kasuke Uprising.
context_section_description: Tada Kasuke was born into a wealthy farmer’s family in the late 1630s.  The Tada family homestead was surrounded by moats and mounds, which suggests the power and position they held.  Traditionally the head of the family became the headman of Nakagaya village, and Kasuke took over the position when his father retired.  He was an educated man, who was said to have been influenced by the Wang Yangming school of Neo-Confucianism.  In around 1680, he was fired as village head when authorities decided that he was too lenient on peasants.  He had a wife named Otami, two sons, and three daughters. At the time of the uprising, the first-born son named Dempachi was twelve years old, and the second son named Sanzō was eight. (Both of them were caught and executed, though neither of them had taken part in the incident.) In addition, Kasuke had an unmarried younger brother named Hikonojō. (He took part in the uprising, and was executed. Some people believe that he was engaged to Oshyun, the sixteen-year-old girl who took part in the uprising. She was also executed.)
caption: Tada homestead, a cultural asset of Nagano
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