- Itakura Katsukiyo
Infobox_Officeholder | name= Itakura Katsukiyo
nationality=Japanese
caption=Itakura Katsukiyo
order=Lord of Bitchū-Matsuyama
term_start= 1849
term_end= 1869
predecessor= Itakura Katsutsune
successor= Itakura Katsusuke
birth_date=birth date|1823|2|14|mf=y
birth_place=Edo ,Japan
death_date=death date and age|1889|4|6|1823|2|14|mf=y
death_place=Tokyo ,Japan
spouse=nihongo|Itakura Katsukiyo|板倉勝静| (
February 14 ,1823 -April 6 ,1889 ) was a Japanesedaimyo of the lateEdo period . Famed for his tenure asrōjū , Itakura later became a Shinto priest.Biography
Itakura, born to the Hisamatsu-Matsudaira of the
Kuwana Domain , was adopted byItakura Katsutsune , the lord of the Matsuyama domain. As a student of Yamada Hōkoku, Itakura worked to reform his domain's administration and finances.Itakura entered the ranks of the shogunate bureaucracy. He served as "jisha-bugyō" in 1857-1859 and again in 1861-1862. He became a
rōjū in 1862.Beasley, William G. (1955). "Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868," p. 333.]Itakura fought in the
Boshin War , and served as a staff officer of theŌuetsu Reppan Dōmei . Later going to theEzo Republic , he fought at Hakodate. After a short time in prison, he was released in the early 1870s, and later became priest of theTōshōgu Shrine inUeno .Notes
References
* Beasley, William G. (1955). [http://books.google.com/books?id=jjOCAAAAIAAJ&dq=Niigata+bugyo&pgis=1 "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)]References
*ja icon [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BF%E5%80%89%E5%8B%9D%E9%9D%99 Japanese Wikipedia article on Itakura Katsukiyo] (22 Sept. 2007)
Further reading
*Asamori Kaname 朝森要 (1975). "Bakumatsu no Kakurō Itakura Katsukiyo" 幕末の閣老板倉勝靜. Okayama: Fukutake Shoten 福武書店.
*Tamura Eitarō 田村栄太郎 (1941). "Itakura Iga no Kami" 板倉伊賀守. Tokyo: Sangensha 三元社.
*Tokunaga Shin'ichirō 德永真一郎 (1982). "Bakumatsu kakuryōden" 幕末閣僚伝. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha 每日新聞社.
*Totman, Conrad (1980). "The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu". Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
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