Background
Hidemasa Koide was born in Owari Province (Aichi Prefecture). Also known as Jinzae-mon.
Hidemasa Koide was born in Owari Province (Aichi Prefecture). Also known as Jinzae-mon.
Hidemasa Koide entered the services of Hideyoshi Toyotomi as a child.
When Hidemasa Koide reached the age he was appointed Lord of Kishiwada with a fief of 80,000 izoku of rice in Osaka Prefecture.
Hidemasa Koide wed Hideyoshi’s sister-in-law, from whom he had two sons, one of whom, Hideie, became a follower of Ieyasu and the other, Yoshimasa, a follower of Mitsunari Ishida.