Infobox_Officeholder | name= Itakura Katsushige
nationality=Japanese
caption=
order=2nd Kyoto Shoshidai
term_start= 1601
term_end= 1619
predecessor= Okudaira Nobumasa
successor= Itakura Shigemune
birth_date=1545
birth_place=
death_date=June 14,1624
death_place=
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nihongo|Itakura Katsushige|板倉勝重| (1545-June 14, 1624) was a Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period to early Edo period. [Meyer, Eva-Maria. [http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/geschichte-japans/manabu/shoshidai.htm "Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit."] Universität Tübingen (in German).] Katsuhige's daimyō family claimed descent from the Shibukawa branch of the Seiwa-Genji. The Itakura identified its clan origins in Mikawa province, and Katsuhige's progency were the elder branch of the clan.[Papinot, Jacques. (2003). [http://www.unterstein.net/Toyoashihara-no-Chiaki-Nagaioaki-no-Mitsuho-no-Kuni/NobiliaireJapon.pdf "Nobiliare du Japon" -- Itakura, pp. 16-17;] Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). "Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon." (in French/German).] ]Katsuhige was sometimes identified by his title, Iga-no kami.[ [see above] ] ]He served in the Tokugawa shogunate as the second "Kyoto Shoshidai",[Murdoch, [http://books.google.com/books?id=32HnwxdP4pMC&pg=RA1-PA10&dq=Itakura+katsushige&lr=&sig=rBaStN-t4TCYYmkoaEyTpN8l6LU "A History of Japan", p. 10.] ] holding office in the period spanning the years from 1601 through 1620. [Meyer, Eva-Maria. [http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/geschichte-japans/manabu/shoshidai.htm "Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit."] University of Tüebingen (in German).] In addition to administrative duties, the "shoshidai"'s participation in ceremonial events served a function in consolidating the power and influence of the shogunate. For example, in September 1617, a Korean delegation was received by Hidetada at Fushimi Castle, and Katsuhige was summoned for two reasons (1) for the Koreans, to underscore the importance accoreded the embassy, and (2) for the "kuge" courtiers in attendance, to make sure that they were properly impressed. [Toby, Ronald. (1991). [http://books.google.com/books?id=2hK7tczn2QoC&pg=PP1&dq=Inaba+Masanobu&lr=&sig=VRkSm2YmCoRG2EIqcHPVV0If3AM#PPA69,M1 "State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu," p. 69.] ] ]Katsushige was succeeded in this role by his eldest son, Shigemune, who held the office from 1620 through 1654. [Murdoch, pp. 10, [http://books.google.com/books?id=32HnwxdP4pMC&pg=PA441&lpg=PA441&dq=shoshidai&source=web&ots=FUe126-RfI&sig=2kZewvlH6nu5Wbvnh6SD5eArksQ&hl=en#PRA1-PA134,M1 p. 134.] ]
He was unusual in that he was one of the "new men" in the close service of Tokugawa Ieyasu. [Bolitho, Harold. (1974). "Treasures among Men," p. 161.] After the Siege of Osaka, Katsushige was entrusted with enforcing the newly promulgated "Kuge Shohatto" code of conduct for court nobles. [Butler, Lee A. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0073-0548(199412)54%3A2%3C509%3ATIRFTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A "Tokugawa Ieyasu's Regulations for the Court: A Reappraisal,"] "Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies," Vol. 54, No. 2 (Dec., 1994), pp. 509-551.] He was the senior shogunate official overseeing the completion of Nijō Castle's construction in 1603. [ [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/kyoto/frames/aut_nijo.htm Nijō Castle construction,] Columbia University.]
His grave is at Chōen-ji Temple, in modern-day Nishio, Aichi.
Notes
References
*Bolitho, Harold. (1974). "Treasures Among Men; the Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan". New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-01655-7
* Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). "Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867". Münster: Tagenbuch. ISBN 3-8258-3939-7
* Murdoch, James. (1996). [http://books.google.com/books?id=32HnwxdP4pMC&dq=shoshidai&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 "A History of Japan."] London: Routledge. 10-ISBN 0-415-15417-0
* 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)]
* Sasaki Suguru. (2002). "Boshin sensō: haisha no Meiji ishin." Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha.
* Toby, Ronald P. (1991). [http://books.google.com/books?id=2hK7tczn2QoC&dq=Inaba+Masanobu&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 "State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu."] Stanford: Stanford University Press. 10-ISBN 0-804-71952-7
External links
*ja icon [http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko12/b12_0035_16_3/index.html Document from Katsushige's tenure as Kyoto Shoshidai]
