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was a Japanese senior councillor of the late
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 ...
. The seventh lord of the Hamada Domain, he was also the governor of Suō. He served in a variety of positions in the
Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars ...
, including magistrate of temples and shrines, Osaka Castle warden and '' Kyoto Shoshidai''. In 1826, he was made a ''
rōjū The , usually translated as ''Elder (administrative title), 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 wh ...
''; from 1834 to 35, he was chief ''rōjū'' (''rōjū shusseki''). He resigned as senior councillor after being held responsible for the Sengoku incident, which brought him in conflict with Mizuno Tadakuni and his faction in the shogunate. In 1836, he was placed under permanent house arrest after he was implicated for smuggling in the Takeshima incident, and died the following year.


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, - 1779 births 1841 deaths Rōjū Kyoto Shoshidai Daimyo Matsui-Matsudaira clan {{daimyo-stub