Tōdō Takayuki
Tōdō Takayuki | |
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藤堂 高猷 | |
11th Daimyō of Tsu Domain | |
In office 1825–1869 | |
Monarchs | Shōgun |
Preceded by | Tōdō Takasawa |
Succeeded by | Tōdō Takakiyo |
Imperial Governor of Tsu Domain | |
In office 1869–1871 | |
Monarch | Emperor Meiji |
Personal details | |
Born | March 11, 1813 |
Died | February 9, 1895 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 81)
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Tōdō Takayuki (藤堂 高猷, March 11, 1813 – February 9, 1895) was the 11th
Biography
Takayuki was born in 1813 as the son of the previous daimyō of Tsu Domain,
In 1842, as concern over the increasing incursions of foreign kurofune warships into Japanese waters grew, the shogunate ordered Tsu Domain to assume guard duties over Ise Grand Shrine, which included the construction of artillery batteries. Saitō Satsudō, the head of the domain academy, incorporated rangaku technology to build modern batteries and attempted to modernize the domain’s military. Tōdō Takayuki also attempted to introduce other forms of western science, including photography, by sponsoring equipment and a laboratory for Ueno Hikoma at the domain’s residence in Edo.[1] In 1861, Tōdō Takayuki was further promoted to Sakon'e-no-chusho (左中将).
Tōdō Takayuki promoted the policy of
During the
On June 28, 1871, Takayuki officially retired, turning over his offices to his eldest son Tōdō Takakiyo. He died in Tokyo at the age of 83 in 1895. He was posthumously awarded with Second court rank, and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd class.[3]
Takayuki is believed by some historians to be the father of the Shinsengumi samurai, Tōdō Heisuke, but there is no direct documentary evidence.
References
- Himeno, Junichi. "Encounters With Foreign Photographers: The Introduction and Spread of Photography in Kyūshū". In Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2004), 18–29.
- Totman, Conrad (1980). Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press), pp. 425–429.
External links
- (in Japanese) Tōdō family information