was a Japanese ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and n ...

'' of the early

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 ...

. He was the 4th ''daimyō'' from the

Tōdō clan The was a Japanese samurai clan of humble origins from the Inukami District of Ōmi Province. Under Hideyoshi, Tōdō ruled Uwajima at Iyo province. During the Edo period, the Tōdō ruled most of Ise Province and all of Iga Province as ''daimy ...

to rule Tsu Domain in

Ise Ise may refer to: Places *Ise, Mie, a city in Japan **Ise Grand Shrine, a Shinto shrine located in Ise, Mie *Ise Ekiti, a city in Nigeria *Ise, Norway, a village in Norway *Ise Province, an ancient province of Japan *River Ise, a tributary of the R ...

and

Iga Province was a province of Japan located in what is today part of western Mie Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Iga" in . Its abbreviated name was . Iga is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō. Under the ''Engishiki'' cl ...

Biography

Takachika was the younger brother of

Tōdō Takahisa was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the early Edo period. He was the 3rd ''daimyō'' from the Tōdō clan to rule Tsu Domain in Ise and Iga Provinces. Biography Takahisa was the eldest son of Tōdō Takatsugu, the 2nd daimyo of Tsu Domain. In 1669 ...

, the 3rd ''

'' of Tsu Domain. In 1703, he became daimyo upon the death of his elder brother. During his short reign, the domain suffered greatly from damaged caused by the

1703 Genroku earthquake The occurred at 02:00 local time on December 31 (17:00 December 30 UTC). The epicenter was near Edo, the forerunner of present-day Tokyo, in the southern part of the Kantō region, Japan. An estimated 2,300 people were killed by the shaking and ...

, during which the clan's Edo residence was destroyed. The subsequent

1707 Hōei earthquake The struck south-central Japan at 14:00 local time on 28 October. It was the largest earthquake in Japanese history until it was surpassed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. It caused moderate to severe damage throughout southwestern Honshu, Sh ...

also caused massive damage in the clan's territories in Ise Province. Takachika had two sons and one daughter, all of his children predeceased him. On his death in 1708,

Tōdō Takatoshi Todo may refer to: * Todo Bichig, Kalmyk ‘Clear Script’ * To-do list, a time management implementation * TODO (tag), a computer programming comment tag * ''Todo'' (album) Tōdō may refer to: * Tōkyūjutsu () or Tōdō (), a Japanese divina ...

, from the branch line of the clan at

Hisai Domain was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Ise Province in former Hisai, Mie, Hisai town (now part of the modern-day city of Tsu, Mie, Tsu, Mie Prefecture). It was centered around Hisai ''jin'ya ...

was adopted as his heir and successor.

External links

Tōdō family information

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Todo, Takachika Daimyo 1667 births 1708 deaths