- Sakai Tadaaki
Infobox_Officeholder | name= Sakai Tadaaki
nationality=Japanese
caption=
order=12th Lord of Obama
term_start= 1834
term_end= 1862
predecessor=Sakai Tadayori
successor=Sakai Tadauji
birth_date=birth date|1813|8|4|mf=y
birth_place=
death_date=death date and age|1873|12|5|1813|8|4|mf=y
death_place=
spouse=nihongo|Sakai Tadaaki|酒井忠義| (
August 4 ,1813 -December 5 ,1873 ),Keene, Donald. (2002). [http://books.google.com/books?id=3YQpz9v8TjQC&pg=PA52&dq=Sakai+Tadaaki&sig=vT_XFOtOcbUTkQJ8aPCHcBbz79Q#PPA43,M1 "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912," p. 43.] ] also known as Sakai Tadayoshi,Meyer, Eva-Maria. [http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/geschichte-japans/manabu/shoshidai.htm "Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit."] Universität Tübingen (in German); Beasley, William G. (1955). "Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868," p. 339.] was a Japanesedaimyo of theEdo period , and he was a prominent shogunal official. He was also known as Shūri-daibu (1834; and again in 1850); as Wakasa-no-kami (1841); and Ukyō-daibu (1862). [Beasley, p. 339.] He would become Obama's last daimyō, holding this position until the feudal domains were abolished in 1871.The Sakai were identified as one of the "
fudai " or insider "daimyō" clans which were hereditary vassels or allies of theTokugawa clan ,Appert, Georges. (1888). [http://books.google.com/books?id=CSUNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=ancien+japon+georges+appert&lr=#PPA76,M1 "Ancien Japon," pp. 76] -77.] in contrast with the "tozama " or outsider clans.akai clan genealogy
Tadaaki was part of a cadet branch of the Sakai which had been created in 1590.Appert, [http://books.google.com/books?id=CSUNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=ancien+japon+georges+appert&lr=#PPA76,M1 p. 76.] ]
The "fudai"
Sakai clan originated in 14th centuryMikawa province .Appert, [http://books.google.com/books?id=CSUNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=ancien+japon+georges+appert&lr=#PPA76,M1 p. 76.] ] The Sakai claim descent fromMinamoto Arichika . Arichika had two sons: one of them, Yasuchika, took the name Matsudaira; and the other son, Chikauji, took the name Sakai -- and this samurai ancestor is the progenitor of this clan's name.Papinot, Jacques. (2003). [http://www.unterstein.net/Toyoashihara-no-Chiaki-Nagaioaki-no-Mitsuho-no-Kuni/NobiliaireJapon.pdf "Nobiliare du Japon" -- Sakai, pp. 50-51;] Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). "Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon." (in French/German).]Sakai Hirochika , who was the son of Chikauji, had two sons, and their descendants gave rise to the two main branches of the Sakai clan. Hirochika's younger son,Sakai Masachika , served several Tokugawa clan leaders -- Nobutada, Kiyoyasu and Hirotada; and in 1561, Masachika was made master ofNishio Castle in Mikawa. [see above] ]Sakai Sigetada , who was the son of Masachika, received the fief ofKawagoe Domain inMusashi province in 1590; and then in 1601, Sigetada was transferred toUmayabashi Domain inKōzuke province .Papinot, [http://www.unterstein.net/Toyoashihara-no-Chiaki-Nagaioaki-no-Mitsuho-no-Kuni/NobiliaireJapon.pdf p. 51.] ]Sakai Tadakatsu (1587–1662), who was Sigetada's son, was transferred in 1634 toObama Domain inWakasa province where his descendants resided until theMeiji period . [see above] ] In a gesture demonstrating special favor to the Sakai, the second shogun, Hidetada, allowed the use of his personal "Tada-" in the name "Tada"katsu. [Plutschow, Herbert. (1995). [http://books.google.com/books?id=fNQjDQ-mWYgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=sakai+tadayuki&lr=&source=gbs_summary_r#PPA53,M1 "Japan's Name Culture: The Significance of Names in a Religious, Political and Social Context," p.53.] ]The head of this clan line was ennobled as a "Count" in the Meiji period. [see above] ]
Tokugawa official
Tadaaki was briefly a Magistrate of Temples and Shrines, before becoming the
Tokugawa shogunate 's forty-eighth Kyoto "shoshidai" for the period spanning December 23, 1843 through September 4, 1850. [see above] ]Owing to his support of
Tokugawa Yoshitomi (the later shogun Iemochi) for the position ofshogun , he was suppressed by the faction which supported Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu's candidacy; this, in turn, was one of the causes ofIi Naosuke 'sAnsei Purge . [Keene, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3YQpz9v8TjQC&pg=PA52&dq=Sakai+Tadaaki&sig=vT_XFOtOcbUTkQJ8aPCHcBbz79Q#PPA44,M1 p.44.] ]Tadaaki was named as the shogunate's representative in the capital as the fifty-second Kyoto "shoshidai" during the period from August 5, 1858 through July 26, 1862. [see above] ] During this period, he served as chief intermediary between the shogunate in Edo and
Emperor Komei during a period of extensive negotiations, delays, and political maneuvering which accompanied plans for the eventual marriage of Komei's sister, Princess Kazunomiya, and Iemochi in March 1862. [Keene, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3YQpz9v8TjQC&pg=PA52&dq=Sakai+Tadaaki&sig=vT_XFOtOcbUTkQJ8aPCHcBbz79Q#PPA52,M1 pp.52] -62.] In due course, he would eventually resign from his official position and from his family headship during the same year.In 1868, during the
Boshin War , Tadaaki resumed headship of the Sakai family; and he resigned upon the abolition of the domains in 1871.Notes
References
* Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888). [http://books.google.com/books?id=HYc_AAAAMAAJ&dq=ancien+japon&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 "Ancien Japon."] Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha.
* Beasley, William G. (1955). "Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868." London:Oxford University Press . [reprinted byRoutledgeCurzon , London, 2001. 10-ISBN 0-197-13508-0; 13-ISBN 978-0-197-13508-2 (cloth)]
* Bolitho, Harold. (1974). "Treasures Among Men: The Fudai Daimyō in Tokugawa Japan". New Haven:Yale University Press . 10-ISBN 0-300-01655-7; 13-ISBN 978-0-300-01655-0
* Keene, Donald. (2002). [http://books.google.com/books?id=3YQpz9v8TjQC&dq=Sakai+Tadaaki&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 "Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912."] New York:Columbia University Press . 10-ISBN 0-231-12340-X
* Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). [http://books.google.com/books?id=6wEvo4wBojcC&dq=Makino+Chikashige&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 "Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867."] Münster: Tagenbuch. ISBN 3-8258-3939-7
* Papinot, Jacques Edmund Joseph. (1906) "Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon." Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha. [http://www.unterstein.net/Toyoashihara-no-Chiaki-Nagaioaki-no-Mitsuho-no-Kuni/NobiliaireJapon.pdf ..Click link for digitized 1906 "Nobiliaire du japon" (2003)]
* Plutschow, Herbert. (1995). [http://books.google.com/books?id=fNQjDQ-mWYgC&dq=sakai+tadayuki&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 "Japan's Name Culture: The Significance of Names in a Religious, Political and Social Context."] London:Routledge . 10-ISBN 1-873-41003-4; 13-ISBN 978-1-873-41042-4 (cloth)
* Sasaki Suguru. (2002). "Boshin sensō: haisha no Meiji ishin." Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha.External links
* Nikko pagoda [http://www.nikko-jp.org/english/toshogu/gojyunotou.html -- Sakai Tadakatsu contributed to the original construction; and after it was burned in 1815, his descendants supported reconstruction in 1818]
* Toshogu pagoda in Nikko [http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/target.php?id=283 -- interior view] [http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/target.php?id=3056 --exterior view, Nagasaki University Library Collection]
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