was a Japanese ''

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 no ...

'' of the

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

, who ruled the

Akō Domain was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Harima Province in what is now the southwestern portion of modern-day Hyōgo Prefecture. It was centered around Akō Castle, which is located in wh ...

. His position was given to

Asano Naganao was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Edo period, who ruled the Akō Domain. He was classified as a '' tozama'', and Akō under his rule was 53,000 ''koku The is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. One koku is equivalent to 10 or approx ...

in 1645 after Ikeda reportedly went mad, killing his wife and consorts.

References

*''This article is derived from corresponding content on the Japanese Wikipedia''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ikeda, Teruoki 1611 births 1647 deaths Daimyo Teruoki