{{family name hatnote, Matsudaira, lang=Japanese {{nihongo, Matsudaira Yorihiro, 松平頼恕, , 1798–1842 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 late

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 ...

, who ruled as the ninth lord of the

Takamatsu Domain 270px, Matsudaira Yoritoshi. pre-1903 270px, Takamatsu Castle Tsukimi Yagura was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. It was centered around Takamatsu Ca ...

. Yorihiro ordered Mifuyu Tomoyasu, a scholar of ''

Kokugaku ''Kokugaku'' ( ja, 國學, label=Kyūjitai, ja, 国学, label=Shinjitai; literally "national study") was an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Tokugawa period. Kokugaku scholars worked to refo ...

'' (National Learning), to compile a book called '' Rekicho Yoki'', and he presented it to the Imperial court.{{cite web , url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6sj5pk8 , title=Matsudaira, Yorihiro, 1703-1763 - Social Networks and Archival Context One of Yorihiro's sons was Ōkubo Tadanori. His descendant Yorihiro Matsudaira, named after him, was a notable figure of Japanese Scouting and recipient of the Bronze Wolf.

References

{{Reflist *https://web.archive.org/web/20120212202052/http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/kyouiku/bunkabu/rekisi/NAIYOU/yuisyo/kakukou/matu.htm *http://www.kcn-net.org/bunjo/eishoji/okatsu.htm *http://omugio.exblog.jp/page/54/ samurai jp *http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/search.php?cndbn=%95%BD%96%EC+%8C%BA%8A%B2 {{s-start {{succession box , title=1st ''Daimyō'' of Takamatsu
(Mito-Matsudaira), before= Matsudaira Yorinori , after= Matsudaira Yoritane , years=1642–1673 {{s-end {{Authority control {{DEFAULTSORT:Matsudaira, Yorihiro Daimyo Matsudaira clan Mito-Tokugawa family 1842 deaths 1798 births {{daimyo-stub