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 | | However, in the time of Hoshina Masanao, the Takeda were destroyed, and the Hoshina, with their landholdings at Takato, in Shinano Province, pledged loyalty to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa shogun. |
 | | Masamitsu took part in the Osaka Campaign, and was quietly granted Yukimatsumaru (later known as Hoshina Masayuki), the illegitimate son of the aforementioned Tokugawa Hidetada, as his adopted heir. |
 | | Oshizu was the daughter of Kan'o Sakayoshi, a former retainer of the Odawara-Hojo clan (whose heirs were the ruling family of the Sayama domain in Kawachi Province), and had been taken on as the servant to Hidetada's wetnurse. |
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