Suganuma Sadayoshi (菅沼定芳)
Sadayoshi SUGANUMA is a fudai daimyo (feudal lord in hereditary vassal to the Tokugawa family) in the early Edo period. The second lord of Nagashima Domain, Ise Province. Later, after completing the role as the lord of Zeze Domain in Omi Province, he became the first lord of the Kameyama Domain of Tanba Province.
He was born in 1587 as a sixth son of Sadamitsu SUGANUMA at the Noda Castle, Shirata District (Mikawa Province).
From 1604 he served for Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, and after Ieyasu's retirement, he served for Hidetada TOKUGAWA. Since Sadayori SUGANUMA, the first lord of the Nagashima Domain, who was an elder brother uterine, died in 1606, he succeeded as head of the family and became the second lord of Nagashima Domain.
In the Osaka no Jin (the Siege of Osaka) from 1614, he participated as the Tokugawa side, and gave a distinguished war service. In 1621, he changed the territory with additional properties of 31,000 koku to Omi Zeze Domain. In 1634, he changed the territory with additional properties of 10,000 koku, 41,000 koku total, to the Kameyama Domain of Tanba Province. He died on February 25, 1643. Died at 57. Between his lawful wife, there were only two daughters who died before him, so the eldest son, Sadaakira SUGANUMA succeeded as head of the family.