was the 2nd ''
daimyō'' of
Kakegawa Domain in
Tōtōmi Province, (modern-day
Shizuoka Prefecture
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) in mid-
Edo period Japan
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, 6th hereditary chieftain of the Kakegawa-Ōta clan, and a high-level office holder within the
Tokugawa shogunate.
[Meyer, Eva-Maria]
"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".
University of Tüebingen (in German).
Biography
Ōta Sukeyoshi was the second son of
Ōta Suketoshi, the ''daimyō'' of Kakegawa Domain. Under ''
Shōgun''
Tokugawa Ieharu, he was appointed as ''
sōshaban'' in 1768 and ''
Jisha-bugyō'' in 1755. He rose to the position of ''
Wakadoshiyori'' from 1781. As ''daimyō'' of Kakegawa, he invited the noted
Neo-Confucian scholar Matsuzaka Kōdō to reside in his domain. In 1789, Sukeyoshi was appointed ''
Kyoto Shoshidai'', the shogunate's official representative to the Court in
Kyoto. In 1793, Sukeyoshi rose to the position of ''
rōjū'' to the infant ''shōgun''
Tokugawa Ienari, a position he held until 1801.
Sukeyoshi died on March 17, 1805. His grave is at the Ōta clan ''
bodaiji'' of Myōhokke-ji in
Mishima, Shizuoka.
References
* Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888)
''Ancien Japon''.Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha.
*
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.''
Notes
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Fudai daimyo
Sukeyoshi
Rōjū
Wakadoshiyori
Kyoto Shoshidai
1739 births
1805 deaths
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