Toda Ujitaka
Count was the 11th and final ''daimyō'' of Ōgaki Domain under the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan. He was the 12th hereditary chieftain of the Toda clan. During the Meiji period, he was a diplomat and served as ambassador of Japan to Switzerland and Austria-Hungary. Biography Toda Ujitaka was the fifth son of the 9th ''daimyō'' of Ōgaki Domain, Toda Ujimasa. He was posthumously adopted to succeed his elder brother, Toda Ujiakira, the 10th ''daimyō'' in 1865. The following year he was awarded the courtesy titles of ''Uneme-no-kami'' and Lower Fourth court rank. In 1868, following the defeat of shogunal forces at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, he was branded an "enemy of the crown"; however, due to an eloquent petition by the domain ''karō'' and an apology, he was pardoned and ordered to serve as messenger of the court to other domains along the Tōsandō to urge them to submit to the imperial government. In 1869, with the abolition of the title of ''daimyō'', he ...
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