was a ''

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'' in mid-

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. His courtesy title was '' Tango-no-kami.''

Biography

Yonekura Tadasuke was the sixth son of

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, a favorite of ''

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'' Tokugawa Tsunayoshi who served in a number of important posts within the administration of the

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. In 1710, he was adopted by Yonekura Masateru, the ''daimyō'' of Minagawa Domain in Shimotsuke Province, and succeeded to the head of the

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and daimyo of Minagawa two years later. On September 1, 1716, he was received in a formal audience by Shogun

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. On July 27, 1722, he transferred the seat of the Yonekura clan to Mutsuura Domain in southern

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, (modern-day Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama,

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), where his descendants continued to reside until the

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. Yonelura Tadasuke died of illness at the young age of 30, leaving behind Yonekura Satonori, his two-year-old heir. This resulted in an '' O-Ie Sōdō'', in which some of his retainers misrepresented the young heir's age to the shogunate. Yonekura Tadasuke was married to a daughter of Honda Tadanao, the ''daimyō'' of Koriyama Domain in

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References

"Mutsuura-han" on ''Edo 300 HTML''
(17 February 2008) * '' The content of much of this article was derived from that of the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia''. Fudai daimyo Tadasuke 1706 births 1736 deaths {{Samurai-stub