was the 4th Ōta ''
daimyō'' of
Kakegawa Domain in
Tōtōmi Province, (modern-day
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...
) in mid-
Edo period Japan
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.
Biography
Ōta Suketoki was the fourth son of
Ōta Sukeyoshi, the 2nd Ōta daimyō of Kakegawa Domain, by a
concubine. As his elder brother
Ōta Sukenobu
was the 3rd '' daimyō'' of Kakegawa Domain in Tōtōmi Province, (modern-day Shizuoka Prefecture) in mid- Edo period Japan and seventh hereditary chieftain of the Kakegawa-Ōta clan.
Biography
Ōta Sukenobu was the second son of Ōta Sukeyos ...
died in 1808 without a male heir, he inherited the leadership of the
Ōta clan
The was samurai kin group which rose to prominence in Sengoku and Edo period Japan.Papinot, Jacques. (2003)''Nobiliare du Japon'' -- Ōta, pp. 48 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon.'' ( ...
and position of daimyō of Kakegawa.
However, Ōta Suketoki died only two years later at the relatively young age of 42. Although he was married to a daughter of
Makino Tadakiyo
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the late Edo period.Meyer, Eva-Maria"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit". University of Tübingen (in German).
The Makino were identified as one of the '' fudai'' or insider ''daimyō'' clans which were h ...
, daimyō of
Nagaoka Domain in
Echigo Province
was an old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan. It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kōzuke, Shinano, and Etchū Provinces. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Echigo''" in . It corresponds today to Niigata ...
, he had only one daughter, and the domain passed to his son-in-law on his death.
His grave is at the Ōta clan temple of Myōhokke-ji in
Mishima, Shizuoka.
References
* Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888)
''Ancien Japon.''Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha.
*
Papinot, Edmond. (1906) ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon.'' Tokyo: Librarie Sansaish
..Click link for digitized 1906 ''Nobiliaire du japon'' (2003)* ''The content of much of this article was derived from that of the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia.''
Fudai daimyo
Suketoki
1769 births
1810 deaths
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