Tokugawa Hidetada

Tokugawa Hidetada (, Tokugawa Hidetada) is a character featured in Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan!. He is loosely based on the real-life person of the same name.
== Background ==
Hidetada was born in 1579. He was the third-born son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the daimyo who; in 1600, would re-unify the country under a single government for the first time in almost a century and a half. 
In his youth, Hidetada studied buddhist teachings under the Imperial emissary to the Tokugawa Clan, High-Monk Nankobo Tenkai, and quickly became a strict adherent to Tenkai's teachings. Hidetada's older brother and heir to the Tokugawa clan, Yuki Hideyasu, was highly-suspicious of Tenkai and warned his brother not to trust him too much. As it turned out, Yuki's suspicions were correct, as Tenkai would eventually have him assassinated so that Hidetada could inherit the Tokugawa Clan and Tenkai could use his influence over him to covertly control the country.
At the start of 1605, Hidetada's father abdicated the shogunate and allowed Hidetada to succeed him early.
==Involvement==
=== Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan! ===
Towards the end of 1605, Hidetada had started growing suspicious of Tenkai and planned to expel him from the shogunate court. Not wanting to lose his influence, Tenkai started secretly gathering allies amongst the Tokugawa Clan's rivals in order to start a rebellion and overthrow Hidetada. To facilitate his plan, he ordered his co-conspirator, Sasaki Kojiro, to kidnap Yuki's daughter, Haruka. Tenkai intended to marry her to whichever daimyo he chose as Hidetada's replacement, in order to legitimize their claim; since Haruka was the sole daughter of the former heir to the Tokugawa Clan.
After learning of this plan, Hidetada traveled to Tenkai's hidden base on Ganryu Island to confront his former mentor. Much to his surprise, when he arrived he found that Haruka's guardian, Miyamoto Musashi, had already defeated Tenkai and his personal garrison of soldiers. The shogun tried to personally execute Tenkai for his crimes, but Miyamoto halted him. The samurai insisted that, in order to reform the country and move it away from the violent days of the warring states period, Hidetada should not simply execute his enemies but rather subject them to a trial before punishment is handed out. Hidetada agreed and stayed his blade from Tenkai.
However, a fleet of Tenkai's co-conspirators appeared on the horizon; coming to Ganryu to join together for the monk's plotted revolution. Sasaki Kojiro would then kill Tenkai to prevent him from commanding the arriving forces and Miyamoto would face them head on to allow Hidetada, Sasaki and Haruka a chance to escape unharmed.
In 1615, Hidetada is still shogun and his troops are besieging Osaka to rescue his adoptive daughter (who is implied to be Haruka) from rebelling Toyotomi Clan forces.
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