Nakamura Kazutada

Nakamura Kazutada (died 1609 at the age of twenty) was granted the province of Hōki, with 180,000 koku, at a very young age, as a reward for his father Nakamura Kazuuji's defection to Tokugawa Ieyasu's camp in 1600. Coming from Sunpu Castle, he first settled at Odaka Castle, then in 1602 at Yonago Castle, which Kikkawa Hiroie had begun. With his adviser Yokota Muraaki (Naizen), he completed the castle, raised a five-storey keep beside the four-storey turret, and organised the castle town. In 1603, however, he had this adviser assassinated, an episode known as the Yonago Castle affair. He died in 1609 without an heir, and his house became extinct.