was a Japanese

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...

in the

Sengoku period The was a period in History of Japan, Japanese history of near-constant civil war and social upheaval from 1467 to 1615. The Sengoku period was initiated by the Ōnin War in 1467 which collapsed the Feudalism, feudal system of Japan under the ...

.細川立孝 at Reichsarchiv.jp
Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)
"Hosokawa" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 12
retrieved 2013-5-30.

Early life

Tatsutaka was the fourth son of Hosokawa Tadaoki (1563–1646). In 1634, he married Tsuru, the daughter of Gojo Tameyuku. They had two sons,

Hosokawa Yukitaka was a Japanese samurai in the Sengoku period. 細川行孝
at ''Nihon jinmei daijiten''
Hosokawa Kamematsu, and one daughter. He had one concubine. Tatsutaka participated in the suppression of the

Shimabara Rebellion The , also known as the or , was an uprising that occurred in the Shimabara Domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan from 17 December 1637 to 15 April 1638. Matsukura Katsuie, the ''daimyō'' of the Shimabara Domain, enforced unpopular polic ...

in 1638. The next year, he was granted an audience with the ''

shōgun , officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamakur ...

''.

Daimyo

The

Uto Domain , also known as Udo Domain, was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Higo Province in modern-day Kumamoto Prefecture.koku The is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. 1 koku is equivalent to 10 or approximately , or about . It converts, in turn, to 100 shō and 1000 gō. One ''gō'' is the volume of the "rice cup", the plastic measuring cup that is supplied ...

'') was created in Higo Province when Tadaoki abdicated, so that Tatsutaka would have a fief to inherit upon his father's death. However, Tatsutaka died the same year, and rights of inheritance were transferred to his first son Yukitaka (1637–1690), so that he and his young siblings would be not be left impoverished. The child Yukitaka thus became the first lord of the newly created

Uto Domain , also known as Udo Domain, was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Higo Province in modern-day Kumamoto Prefecture.Hosokawa clan.

References

External links

"Uto" at Edo 330

1615 births 1645 deaths Daimyo Higo-Hosokawa clan {{daimyo-stub