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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] |
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] |
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,555,818 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northeast, Nagano Prefecture to the north, and Aichi Prefecture to the west. Shizuoka (city), Shizuoka is the capital and Hamamatsu is the largest city in Shizuoka Prefecture, with other major cities including Fuji, Shizuoka, Fuji, Numazu, and Iwata, Shizuoka, Iwata. Shizuoka Prefecture is located on Japan's Pacific Ocean coast and features Suruga Bay formed by the Izu Peninsula, and Lake Hamana which is considered to be one of Japan's largest lakes. Mount Fuji, the tallest volcano in Japan and cultural icon of the country, is partially located in Shizuoka Prefecture on the border with Yamanashi Prefecture. Shizuoka Prefecture has a significant Motor vehicle, motoring heritage as the founding location of Honda, Suzuki Motor C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsudaira Takechika
The was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan. It originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province (modern-day Aichi Prefecture). During the Sengoku period, the chieftain of the main line of the Matsudaira clan, Matsudaira Motoyasu became a powerful regional daimyo under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and changed his name to Tokugawa Ieyasu. He subsequently seized power as the first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan during the Edo period until the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, many cadet branches of the clan retained the Matsudaira surname, and numerous new branches were formed in the decades after Ieyasu. Some of those branches were also of ''daimyō'' status. After the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the ''han'' system, the Tokugawa and Matsudaira clans became part of the new ''kazoku'' nobility. Origins The Matsudaira clan originated in Mikawa Province. Its origins ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Papinot
Jacques Edmond-Joseph Papinot (1860–1942) was a French Roman Catholic priest and missionary who was also known in Japan as . He was an architect, academic, historian, editor, Japanologist. Papinot is best known for creating an ''Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan'' which was first published in French in 1899. The work was published in English in 1906. Early life Papinot was born in 1860 in Châlons-sur-Saône in France.Pouillon, François. (2008)''Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française,'' p. 736 He was ordained as a Catholic priest in September 1886, and three months later, he was sent to Japan. Career Papinot first arrived in Japan in 1886. He taught at the Tokyo Theological Seminary for 15 years while working on his ''Dictionnaire japonais-français des noms principaux de l'histoire et de la géographie de Japon''.Rogala, Jozef. (2012)''A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English,'' p. 187 In 1911, he left Japan for China. He returned to Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ise-Kameyama Domain
was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Ise Province in what is part of now modern-day Kameyama, Mie. It was centered around Kameyama Castle (Mie), Ise-Kameyama Castle. Ise-Kameyama Domain was controlled by ''fudai daimyō'' clans throughout most its history. History The Ise-Kamayama area of northern Ise Province was controlled in the Sengoku period by Seki Morinobu. Under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, his son Seki Kazumasa was relocated to Mino Province and replaced by Hideyoshi's general Okamoto Yoshikatsu as part of a 22,000 ''koku'' fief. Okamoto Yoshikatsu rebuilt Kameyama Castle and laid out the foundations for the jōkamachi, castle town. However, he sided with the pro-Toyotomi Western Army at the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara and was dispossessed by the victorious Tokugawa Ieyasu, who restored Seki Kazumasa to his former domains with an increase in ''kokudaka'' to 30,000 ''koku''. Under Seki Kazumasa, Kameyama-juku, the shukuba, pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itakura Shigeharu
is a town located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 14,323 in 5717 households and a population density of 340 persons per km2. The total area of the town is . Itakura's animal mascot is the catfish. It is represented in a bronze statue at Raiden Shrine, as a ''mikoshi'' in Itakura's summer festival, and also is emblazoned on the town's manhole covers. Itakura is one of the few places in Japan where catfish dishes are a local delicacy. Geography Itakura is located in the northern Kantō Plains in the extreme southern corner of Gunma prefecture, bordered by Saitama Prefecture to the south and Tochigi Prefecture to the north. The Tone River flows through the town, and the Watarase River forms its northern border. Surrounding municipalities Gunma Prefecture * Meiwa * Tatebayashi Saitama Prefecture * Hanyu * Kazo Tochigi Prefecture * Sano * Tochigi Climate Itakura has a Humid continental climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by hot summers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishima, Shizuoka
file:Mishima-city-office.JPG, Mishima City Hall is a Cities of Japan, city located in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 109,803 in 49,323 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city is . Geography Mishima is located in far eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, at the northern end of Izu Peninsula and in the foothills of Mount Fuji. Surrounding municipalities *Kanagawa Prefecture **Hakone, Kanagawa, Hakone *Shizuoka Prefecture **Kannami, Shizuoka, Kannami **Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Nagaizumi **Numazu, Shizuoka, Numazu **Shimizu, Shizuoka, Shimizu **Susono, Shizuoka, Susono Demographics Per Japanese census data, the population of Mishima has remained stable over the past 25 years. Climate Mishima has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa'') with hot summers and cool winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, but is heaviest from June to September. The average annual temperatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodaiji
A in Japanese Buddhism is a temple which, generation after generation, takes care of a family's dead, giving them burial and performing ceremonies in their soul's favor.Iwanami kojien The name is derived from the term , which originally meant just Buddhist enlightenment (satori), but which in Japan has also come to mean either the care of one's dead to ensure their welfare after death or happiness in the beyond itself. Several samurai families including the Tokugawa had their ''bodaiji'' built to order, while others followed the example of commoners and simply adopted an existing temple as family temple. Families may have more than one ''bodaiji''. The Tokugawa clan, for example, had two, while the Ashikaga clan had several, both in the Kantō and the Kansai areas. Some famous ''bodaiji'' *The Hōjō clan's Tōshō-ji in Kamakura (Kamakura period) (destroyed in 1333) *The Hōjō clan's Hōkai-ji in Kamakura (Muromachi period) *The Ashikaga's Tōji-in in Kyoto (Muromachi pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Jisha-bugyō
was a position within the system for the administration of religion that existed from the Muromachi period to the Edo period in Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were always ''fudai daimyōs'', the lowest-ranking of the shogunate offices to be so restricted.Beasley, William G. (1955). ''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868'', p. 323. This Shogun, shogunate title assigns an official the responsibility of suspervising shrines and temples. This was considered a high-ranking office, ranked only slightly below that of ''wakadoshiyori'' but above all other ''bugyō.'' List of ''jisha-bugyō'' : * Tsuda Masatoshi (?-1650) * Ōoka Tadasuke (1736–1751) * Kuze Hirochika (1843–1848) * Naitō Nobuchika (1844–1848) * Matsudaira Tadakata (1845) * Matsudaira Nobuatsu (1848–1885)Beasley, p. 336. * Andō Nobumasa (1852–1858) * Itakura Katsukiyo (1857–1859, 1861–1862) * Honjō Munehide (1858–1861) * Mizuno Tadakiyo (1858–1861) * Inoue Masanao (1861 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogasawara Nagayuki
Ogasawara (written: 小笠原) is a Japanese surname. It may also refer to: Locations * Ogasawara Islands, also known as the Bonin Islands, an archipelago of over 30 islands about 1000 km south of Tokyo, Japan * Ogasawara National Park, an island national park located on that archipelago * Ogasawara Subprefecture, a subprefecture of Tokyo, Japan * Ogasawara, Tokyo, a village in Ogasawara Subprefecture, Tokyo, Japan, that governs the Bonin Islands People with the surname *, a Japanese voice actress *, a Japanese anime director from Chiba, Japan *, a Japanese Olympic Curler *, a Japanese baseball player *, Japanese speed skater *, a Japanese football (soccer) player *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese rower Fictional *, a fictional main character in the ''Maria-sama ga Miteru'' media series *, a character from ''Hibike! Euphonium'' Historical *, a Japanese samurai clan *, a Japanese retainer of the Minamoto clan during the Heian period *, the 6th and final daimyō of Karat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
