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Ōta Sukeyoshi (I)
was the 2nd ''daimyō'' of Kakegawa Domain in Tōtōmi Province, (modern-day Shizuoka Prefecture) in mid-Edo period Japan, 6th hereditary chieftain of the Kakegawa-Ōta clan, and a high-level office holder within the Tokugawa shogunate.Meyer, Eva-Maria"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit". University of Tüebingen (in German). Biography Ōta Sukeyoshi was the second son of Ōta Suketoshi, the ''daimyō'' of Kakegawa Domain. Under ''Shōgun'' Tokugawa Ieharu, he was appointed as ''sōshaban'' in 1768 and ''Jisha-bugyō'' in 1755. He rose to the position of ''Wakadoshiyori'' from 1781. As ''daimyō'' of Kakegawa, he invited the noted Neo-Confucian scholar Matsuzaka Kōdō to reside in his domain. In 1789, Sukeyoshi was appointed ''Kyoto Shoshidai'', the shogunate's official representative to the Court in Kyoto. In 1793, Sukeyoshi rose to the position of ''rōjū'' to the infant ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Ienari, a position he held until 1801. Sukeyoshi died on March 17, 1805. His g ... [...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] |
