was the 10th ''daimyō'' of Obama Domain in mid- to late
Edo period
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Japan.
[Meyer, Eva-Mari]
"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".
University of Tübingen
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(in German).
Biography
Tadayuki was the seventh son of
Sakai Tadaka
was a '' fudai'' feudal domain of Edo period Japan. It is located in Echizen Province, in the Hokuriku region of Honshū. The domain was centered at Tsuruga ''jin'ya'', located in the center of what is now the city of Tsuruga in Fukui Prefectur ...
of
Tsuruga Domain
was a '' fudai'' feudal domain of Edo period Japan. It is located in Echizen Province, in the Hokuriku region of Honshū. The domain was centered at Tsuruga ''jin'ya'', located in the center of what is now the city of Tsuruga in Fukui Prefectur ...
and was posthumously adopted as heir to Obama on the death of
Sakai Tadatsura in 1806. His wife was a daughter of
Okudaira Masashika of
Nakatsu Domain
was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Buzen Province in modern-day Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. The domain was centered at Nakatsu Castle in what is now Nakatsu, Ōita.
In the han system, Nakatsu was a po ...
. In 1808, he became''
jisha-bugyō
was a "commissioner" or an "overseer" of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were always ''fudai daimyōs'', the lowest-ranking of the shogunate offices to be so restricted.Beasley, William G. (1955) ...
'' and from 1808 to 1815 served as the 37th ''
Kyoto Shoshidai
The was an important administrative and political office in the Tokugawa shogunate. The office was the personal representative of the military dictators Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Kyoto, the seat of the Japanese Emperor, and was adop ...
''
In 1815, he was ordered to oversee the reconstruction of the 5-story
pagoda
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at
Nikkō Tōshō-gū
is a Tōshō-gū Shinto shrine located in Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
Together with Futarasan Shrine and Rinnō-ji, it forms the Shrines and Temples of Nikkō UNESCO World Heritage Site, with 42 structures of the shrine included in the n ...
, which had been destroyed by a fire. Later that year, he was promoted to ''
rōjū
The , usually translated as '' Elder'', was one of the highest-ranking government posts under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The term refers either to individual Elders, or to the Council of Elders as a whole; under the first two ''sh ...
'', holding that post until his death in 1828.
References
Further reading
* Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888)
''Ancien Japon''.Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha.
* Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999)
''Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867''.Münster: Tagenbuch.
* Papinot, Jacques Edmund Joseph. (1906) ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon''. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaish
..Click link for digitized 1906 ''Nobiliaire du japon'' (2003)
External links
* Nikko pagod
* Toshogu pagoda in Nikko
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1770 births
1828 deaths