Harada Naomasa
Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck". Harada Naomasa or Ban Naomasa (塙直政) served as a bushō and retainer of the Oda clan of Owari Province during the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Naomasa was the lord of Ōnogi Castle in the Kasugai District of Owari.
Born in the Kasugai District of Owari, Naomasa first served as an umamawari, or mounted soldier, for Oda Nobunaga. He was selected as a member of the elite group of soldiers who rode with a red horo, a cape that would inflate behind the riders to serve as protection against stones or arrows shot at them in battle. Naomasa accompanied Nobunaga during his move to Gifu Castle and resided in the castle.
After 1568, Harada Naomasa was appointed as one of the four administrators of Kyoto (along with along with Matsui Yukon, Murai Sadakatsu, and Takei Sekian) by Oda Nobunaga. He was named as one of Nobunaga's Go-umamawari-shû (bodyguards) and placed in command of matchlockmen at Battle of Nagashino (1575). That same year he helped put down residual ikko resistance in Ise Province.
In 1576 he joined Akechi Mitsuhide and Hosokawa Fujitaka in a campaign against the Ishiyama Honganji complex. En route, he was ambushewd by Honganji forces and killed. His original surname was Ban - and he received the name Harada from Nobunaga in 1575.
In addition to Naomasa, family members including, among others, his uncle (Ban Yasuhiro) and younger brother (Koshiirō), perished in the battle. Having lost many of their bushō in the conflict, Nobunaga held the Ban family responsible for the outcome and the clan was extinguished.
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