Background
Yasuhide Matsudaira was born in 1761 in Japan. He was the son of Maeda, the lord of Oki Clan.
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Yasuhide Matsudaira
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also known as
Yasuhira
Career
Yasuhide Matsudaira was appointed the 81st magistrate of Nagasaki in 1807. The following year when the English ship Phaeton entered Nagasaki flying a Dutch flag and holding members of Dutch firms as hostages he ordered the soldiers of the Hizen Clan to attack the ship, but as this was not enough to prevent the ship from escaping, he committed suicide out of shame.
