Yasukatsu Sakakibara

Yasukatsu Sakakibara is the third son of Yasumasa.

Role in Game
Yasukatsu comes late in Kessen. Like Naotaka Ii and Tadatomo Honda, he succeeds Yasumasa to fight at Osaka Castle. He wears his father's armor but fights unmasked.

Historical Information
Sakakibara Yasukatsu (榊原康勝? ) (1590-June 23, 1615) was a Japanese daimyo of the earlyEdo period who ruled the Tatebayashi Domain. His court title was Tōtōmi no kami. Yasukatsu was the third son of Sakakibara Yasumasa, who was one of the four chief generals ofTokugawa Ieyasu. As Yasumasa's eldest son Tadamasa was given in adoption to the Osuga family, and the second son Tadanaga died young, Yaskatsu inherited his father's fief and became lord of Tatebayashi, which was rated at 100,000 koku in size. He took part in the winter Siege of Osaka, assisting the hard-pressed forces of Satake Yoshinobu. In the summer siege the following year, he was defeated in Sanada Yukimura's counterattack. Soon after the siege, Yasukatsu died at 26 of a bad case of hemorrhoids. After Yasukatsu's death his son Tadatsugu succeeded him; Yasukatsu's only son Katsumasa became a hatamoto.