was a Japanese court noble of the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

(1603–1868). He held the regent position of kampaku from 1787-1791.

Biography

Sukehira was the adopted son of

Takatsukasa Mototeru , son of Ichijō Kaneka and adopted son of Takatsukasa Fusahiro , was a ''Kugyō'' or Japanese court noble of the Edo period (1603–1868). Sukehira was his adopted son. Family Parents *Biological Father: Takatsukasa Fusahiro (鷹司房熙, ...

. He was a grandson of

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and thus a paternal uncle of

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. Due to the frequent adoption between families of

Fujiwara clan was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend held, through them their ancestral god Ame-no-Koyane. The Fujiwara prospered since the ancient times and dominated the imperial court until th ...

, Sukehira had modern agnatic descendants under the family names Tokudaiji, Kikutei (菊亭), Hanazono (華園), Kajino (梶野), Takachiho (高千穗), Nakanoin (中院), Sumitomo (住友), Muromachi (室町), Yamamoto (山本), Kitakawara (北河原), Senshū (千秋). He served as kampaku from 1787-1791. He had a son, Masahiro, with the daughter of the eighth head of

Chōshū Domain The , also known as the , was a domain (''han'') of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871.Deal, William E. (2005) ''Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan,'' p. 81 The Chōshū Domain was base ...

Mori Shigetaka. He died in 1813, aged 74

References

* 1738 births 1813 deaths Ichijō family Takatsukasa family {{japan-noble-stub