was a Japanese ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominall ...

'' of the late

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...

, who ruled the

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. He served as a

rōjū The , usually translated as ''Elder'', was one of the highest-ranking government posts under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The term refers either to individual Elders, or to the Council of Elders as a whole; under the first two ''shō ...

in the

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, and briefly as chief rōjū (''rōjū shuza'' 老中首座).

Family

* Father: Okusa Takayoshi (d.1840) * Foster Father: Kuze Hirotaka (1799-1830) * Wife: Abe Masakiyo's daughter * Children: ** Kuze Hirofumi (1854-1899) ** Kuze Hironari (1858-1911) ** Kuze Hiromitsu ** daughter married Sakurai Tomoyoshi

References

*Totman, Conrad. ''The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868''. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1980. 1819 births 1864 deaths Rōjū Kuze clan Fudai daimyo People from Tokyo {{daimyo-stub