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'', and later a ''

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'', during mid-

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Biography

Matsudaira Suketoshi was the second son of Honjō Munesuke, the daimyō of

Kasama Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Hitachi Province (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Kasama Castle in what is now the city of Kasama, Ibaraki. It was ruled by a number o ...

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. On October 10, 1684, he joined the ranks of the ''

'' in direct service to the ''

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'' and at the end of 1691 was allowed to assume the courtesy title of ''Aki-no-kami'' and Lower 5th Court Rank. On the death of his father in 1699, he became daimyō of Kasama Domain and head of the

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. Receiving Lower 4h Court Rank at the end of 1701, he was granted an additional 20,000 ''

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'' of territory in ( Bitchu Province), bringing his total revenues to 70,000 ''koku''. He was transferred to

Hamamatsu Domain was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Tōtōmi Province. It was centered on what is now Hamamatsu Castle in what is now the city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture. Hamamatsu was the residence of Tokugawa Ieyasu for much of his ...

(

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) in September 1702. On March 23, 1705, ''Shōgun''

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permitted him to take the surname of

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, with the reward extended posthumously to cover his father as well. His courtesy title also changed to ''Bungō-no-kami'', and later to ''Hōki-no-kami''. Although Suketoshi was married and had several concubines, by whom he had numerous sons, on his death, he was succeeded by his wife's brother, whom he had adopted as his heir. His grave is at the temple of Tōkai-ji in

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References

* Papinot, Edmund. (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 Hatamoto Tokugawa clan 1660 births 1723 deaths {{daimyo-stub