was the 5th ''

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) in late-

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and Bakumatsu period

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and a high-level office holder within the

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"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-jō dai'' on November 22, 1828, followed by the post of '' Kyoto Shoshidai'' 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 Edo 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.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

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of Yonezawa Domain. He died on June 20, 1867, and his grave is at the Ōta clan '' bodaiji'' of Myōhokke-ji in

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References

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''Ancien Japon.''
Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha. * Jansen, Marius B. (1995)
''The Emergence of Meiji Japan.''
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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 1799 births 1867 deaths