, son of regent Masamichi, was a ''

kugyō is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. The term generally referred to the and court officials and denoted a court rank between First Rank and Third Rank un ...

'' or Japanese court noble of the

late Tokugawa shogunate were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended. Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunat ...

and early

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s. He held a regent position kampaku in 1863. After his biological son Sukemasa died young, he adopted a son of

Kujō Hisatada , son of Nijō Harutaka, was a ''kuge'' or Japanese court noble of the Edo period (1603–1868). He was adopted by his brother Kujō Suketsugu, Suketsugu as his son. He held a regent position kampaku from 1856 to 1862, and retired in 1863, becomi ...

, Hiromichi. In August 1872 he retired, and in November 1878 he died at age 70.

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1807 births 1878 deaths Sesshō and Kampaku Sukehiro 19th-century Japanese people {{Japan-noble-stub