was the 10th ''daimyō'' of Obama Domain in mid- to 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 characte ...

Japan.Meyer, Eva-Mari
"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".

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(in German).

Biography

Tadayuki was the seventh son of Sakai Tadaka of

Tsuruga Domain was a '' fudai'' feudal domain of Edo period Japan. It is located in Echizen Province, in the Hokuriku region of Honshū. The domain was centered at Tsuruga '' jin'ya'', located in the center of what is now the city of Tsuruga in Fukui Prefec ...

and was posthumously adopted as heir to Obama on the death of Sakai Tadatsura in 1806. His wife was a daughter of Okudaira Masashika of

Nakatsu Domain was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Buzen Province in modern-day Ōita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. The domain was centered at Nakatsu Castle in what is now Nakatsu, Ōita. In the han system, Nakatsu was a po ...

. In 1808, he became''

jisha-bugyō was a "commissioner" or an "overseer" of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were always ''fudai daimyōs'', the lowest-ranking of the shogunate offices to be so restricted.Beasley, William G. (1955) ...

'' and from 1808 to 1815 served as the 37th '' Kyoto Shoshidai'' In 1815, he was ordered to oversee the reconstruction of the 5-story

pagoda A pagoda is an Asian tiered tower with multiple eaves common to Nepal, India, China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most often Buddhist but sometimes Taoist, ...

Nikkō Tōshō-gū is a Tōshō-gū Shinto shrine located in Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Together with Futarasan Shrine and Rinnō-ji, it forms the Shrines and Temples of Nikkō UNESCO World Heritage Site, with 42 structures of the shrine included in t ...

, which had been destroyed by a fire. Later that year, he was promoted to ''

rōjū The , usually translated as ''Elder'', was one of the highest-ranking government posts under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The term refers either to individual Elders, or to the Council of Elders as a whole; under the first two ''shō ...

'', holding that post until his death in 1828.

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* Nikko pagod

* Toshogu pagoda in Nikko --exterior_view,_Nagasaki_University_Library_Collection
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--exterior view, Nagasaki University Library Collection
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