, better known as , was a Kaga samurai of the Bakumatsu who served as a "karō" to the Maeda clan. His common names were and .
Biography.
Daini was born as the second son of , a "karō" of Kaga Domain, in 1823. The Matsudaira family, as retainers to the Maeda clan, held 4,000 "koku" within Kaga. Daini watched over Komatsu Castle from 1856, and was a bugyō to Maeda Yoshiyasu, the heir to the fiefdom of Kaga, from 1860. He became a "karō" in 1863, and went to Kyoto in 1864.
As a , Daini accompanied Yoshiyasu to Kyoto in an attempt for mediation between the Chōshū samurai and the Tokugawa shogunate at the time of the Kinmon incident in 1864. The mediation failed, and in the ensuing battle, Yoshiyasu fled Kyoto. Maeda Nariyasu, Yoshiyasu's father, placed Yoshiyasu under house arrest. Daini took responsibility for Yoshiyasu's role in the Kinmon incident, and was forced to perform "seppuku" with Sagawa Yoshisuke as his "kaishakunin". Yoshisuke recounted the circumstances of Daini's "seppuku" in his diary. Daini is interred at in Makino, Shiga, while his head is enshrined at in Kanazawa.
In 1879, buildings owned by the Ishikawa Prefecture Kanazawa Hospital were built on the site where Daini's family once resided.
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