A master-less samurai born in Aki (west of Hiroshima Prefecture), who studied in Kyoto. He was employed by the great Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa in 1598 to repair a clock that had been presented to Tokugawa Ieyasu . The clock had been presented during a visit by Korean ambassadors. He also produced a working replica of the damaged clock.
Tsuda-san later lived in Nagoya, serving the Owari clan in what is now Aichi Prefecture, and was invited to work in an official capacity as the maintainer of clocks for the Tokugawa family in Owari, beginning in Genna 9 (1623). His descendants continued to work as clockmakers and master blacksmiths.
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