was the 5th ''

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

'' of

Kakegawa Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The domain was centered at Kakegawa Castle in Tōtōmi Province, in what is now the city of Kakegawa, Shizuoka.

in Tōtōmi Province, (modern-day

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) in late-

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and

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and a high-level office holder within the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Tokugawa-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia ...

, Meyer, Eva-Maria
"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".
University of Tüebingen (in German) and ninth hereditary chieftain of the Kakegawa-Ōta clan. His

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was ''Dewa-no-kami''.

Biography

Ōta Sukemoto was the third son of Hotta Masazane, ''daimyō'' of Omi-Miyagawa Domain. He was selected as posthumous heir on Ōta Suketoki's sudden death in 1810 and married to one of Suketoki's daughters. At the time, he was only eleven years old. He was received in formal audience by ''

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'' Tokugawa Ienari in 1812 and was appointed a '' sōshaban'' in 1818. Sukemoto was appointed '' Jisha-bugyō'' on July 17, 1822, and ''

Osaka jōdai were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Those appointmented to this prominent office were exclusively ''fudai daimyōs''.Beasley, William G. (1955). ''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868'', p. 326. Conven ...

'' on November 22, 1828, followed by the post of ''

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 ...

'' from July 4, 1831, through May 19, 1834. On May 6, 1837 he became a '' rōjū'', in which position he often clashed with senior ''rōjū'' Mizuno Tadakuni over the provisions of the unpopular Tenpō Reforms, especially the ''Agechi-rei'' which was to have ''daimyō'' in the vicinity of

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and Ōsaka surrender their holdings for equal amounts of land elsewhere, thereby consolidating Tokugawa control over these strategically vital areas. After Mizuno was deposed from office, Sukemoto promoted the interests of Tokugawa Nariaki. However, one of Nariaki's first actions was to replace Sukemoto, who was asked to retire on July 20, 1841. On his forced retirement, Sukemoto turned Kakegawa domain over to his eldest son Ōta Sukekatsu. However upon Ienari's death, he returned to serve as ''rōjū'' again from June 23, 1858, through July 23, 1859, together with Matsudaira Noriyasu and

Manabe Akikatsu was the 7th '' daimyō'' of Sabae Domain in Echizen Province under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan.Meyer, Eva Maria. (1999) ''Japans Kaiserhof in der Edo-Zeit'', p. 146 His courtesy title was ''Shimōsa-no-kami'', and his Court r ...

.GeoRulersAtlas web site, rōjū.
/ref> He returned again for a brief third term from April 27 – May 14, 1863. Suekmoto later remarried to a daughter of Uesugi Narisada of Yonezawa Domain. He died on June 20, 1867 and his grave is at the Ōta clan '' bodaiji'' of Myōhokke-ji in Mishima, Shizuoka.

Notes

References

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Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha. * Jansen, Marius B. (1995)
''The Emergence of Meiji Japan.''
Cambridge:

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. * Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999)
''Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867.''
Münster: Tagenbuch. * Papinot, Edmond. (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.'' , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Ota, Sukemoto Fudai daimyo Sukemoto Rōjū Kyoto Shoshidai Osaka jōdai 1799 births 1867 deaths