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Ōta Suketoshi
was a ''daimyō'' during mid-Edo period Japan and fifth hereditary chieftain of the Kakegawa-Ōta clan. His courtesy title was ''Settsu-no-kami''. Biography Ōta Suketoshi was the son of Ōta Sukeharu, the ''daimyō'' of Tatebayashi Domain in Kōzuke Province. He inherited the leadership of the Ōta clan on his father's death in 1734, but was not confirmed in the position of ''daimyō'' of Tatebayashi Domain until 1740. He entered into the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate by serving as ''sōshaban'' at Edo Castle. On September 25, 1746 was reassigned from Tatebayashi to Kakegawa Domain in Tōtōmi Province, (modern-day Shizuoka Prefecture) replacing Ogasawara Nagayuki. He subsequently was appointed to the position of ''Jisha-bugyō''. He died at Kakegawa on January 12, 1716, leaving the domain to his son, Ōta Sukeyoshi. His grave is at the Ōta clan ''bodaiji'' of Myōhokke-ji in Mishima, Shizuoka. Ōta Suketoshi was married to an adopted daughter of Itakura Shigeha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Daimyō
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominally to the Emperor of Japan, emperor and the ''kuge'' (an aristocratic class). In the term, means 'large', and stands for , meaning 'private land'. From the ''shugo'' of the Muromachi period through the Sengoku period to the daimyo of the Edo period, the rank had a long and varied history. The backgrounds of daimyo also varied considerably; while some daimyo clans, notably the Mōri clan, Mōri, Shimazu clan, Shimazu and Hosokawa clan, Hosokawa, were cadet branches of the Imperial family or were descended from the ''kuge'', other daimyo were promoted from the ranks of the samurai, notably during the Edo period. Daimyo often hired samurai to guard their land, and paid them in land or food, as relatively few could afford to pay them i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
