Sakai Tadaaki

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Sakai Tadaaki
酒井 忠義
Born(1813-08-04)August 4, 1813
DiedDecember 5, 1873(1873-12-05) (aged 60)
Burial place
Sakai Tadauji

Sakai Tadaaki (酒井 忠義, August 4, 1813 – December 5, 1873),

daimyō of the Edo period, and he was a prominent shogunal official. He was also known as by his courtesy titles of Shūri-daibu (1834; and again in 1850); as Wakasa-no-kami (1841); and Ukyō-daibu (1862).[3]
He was Obama's last daimyō, holding this position until the feudal domains were abolished in 1871.

Biography

Tadaaki was fifth son of

shōgun, he angered the political faction within the government which supported Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu. This was one of the causes of Ii Naosuke's Ansei Purge, and Tadaaki was forced to resign as Kyoto Shoshidai in 1850.[4]

Tadaaki was reappointed as the 52nd Kyoto Shoshidai from August 5, 1858, through July 26, 1862.

He resigned again in 1862, this time also from the position of daimyō, adopting

Meiji government
. He died in 1873.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Keene, Donald. (2002). Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912, p. 43.
  2. ^ a b Meyer, Eva-Maria."Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit". Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine Universität Tübingen (in German); Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868, p. 339.
  3. ^ Beasley, p. 339.
  4. ^ Keene, p. 44.
  5. ^ Keene, pp.52–62.

References

Preceded by
Sakai Tadayori
_12th Daimyō of Obama
1834–1862
Succeeded by
Sakai Tadauji
Preceded by
Sakai Tadauji
_14th Daimyō of Obama
1868–1871
Succeeded by
none
Preceded by _48th Kyoto Shoshidai
1843–1850
Succeeded by
Preceded by _52nd Kyoto Shoshidai
1858–1862
Succeeded by