was a Japanese

samurai The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...

bureaucrat and ''

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 no ...

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Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)
"Matsudaira Ietada"
in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 747. He was in charge of silver mines at Sagami after 1601, at Sado after 1603 and at Izu after 1606. He expanded production at each mine. Murdoch, James. (1903)
''A History of Japan,'' pp. 492-493 n.24
After his death, evidence of misconduct was found. His fief was confiscated and his sons were ordered to commit suicide.

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Daimyo Hatamoto 1545 births 1613 deaths Ōkubo clan {{Daimyo-stub