Yasumasa Sakakibara is a loyal officer of the Tokugawa army and the father of Yasukatsu Sakakibara. He is one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Tokugawa and is said to have been good friends with Tadakatsu. His Nobunaga's Ambition counterpart is seventy-ninth place in Gamecity's character popularity ranking for 2015. The Nobunaga no Yabou 201X poll for 3-star officers puts him in seventeenth place while his 4-star portrait is ranked eighty-seventh place.