Tairō

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Tairō (Japanese : 大老, "great elder") [1] was a high-ranking official position in the Tokugawa shogunate government of Japan, roughly comparable to the office of prime minister. [2] The tairō presided over the governing rōjū council in the event of an emergency. A tairō was nominated from among the fudai daimyōs , who worked closely with the Tokugawa traditionally. [3] Generally, the office holder was the shogunate's chief policy maker, and provided Japan with a capable temporary leader in the absence of a shōgun , or in the event that the shōgun was incapacitated.

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List of tairō

NameFromToShogun
Sakai Tadayo [4] March 12, 1636March 19, 1636 Tokugawa Iemitsu
Doi Toshikatsu [4] November 7, 1638July 10, 1644Tokugawa Iemitsu
Sakai Tadakatsu [4] November 7, 1638May 26, 1656Tokugawa Iemitsu
Tokugawa Ietsuna
Sakai Tadakiyo [5] March 29, 1666December 9, 1680Tokugawa Ietsuna
Ii Naozumi November 19, 1668January 3, 1676Tokugawa Ietsuna
Hotta Masatoshi [6] November 12, 1681August 28, 1684 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Ii Naooki June 13, 1696March 2, 1700Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu [7] January 11, 1706June 3, 1709Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Ii Naooki February 13, 1711February 23, 1714 Tokugawa Ienobu
Tokugawa Ietsugu
Ii Naoyuki November 28, 1784September 1, 1787 Tokugawa Ieharu
Tokugawa Ienari
Ii Naoaki December 28, 1835May 13, 1841Tokugawa Ienari
Tokugawa Ieyoshi
Ii Naosuke [8] April 23, 1858March 24, 1860 Tokugawa Iesada
Tokugawa Iemochi
Sakai Tadashige February 1, 1865November 12, 1865Tokugawa Iemochi

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Deal, William E. (2007). Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-533126-4.
  2. ↑ Shiba, Ryotaro; Hori, Tadashi (1986). "Japanese History: From a Personal Viewpoint". Review of Japanese Culture and Society. 1 (1): 40–45. ISSN   0913-4700. JSTOR   42800063.
  3. ↑ Reiko, Tanimura (2013). "Tea of the warrior in the late Tokugawa period". In Pitelka, Morgan (ed.). Japanese Tea Culture. doi:10.4324/9781315888071. ISBN   9781134535316.
  4. 1 2 3 Sansom, George. (1963). A History of Japan: 1615–1867, p. 22. , p. 22, at Google Books
  5. ↑ Sansom, p. 63. , p. 63, at Google Books
  6. ↑ Sansom, p. 131–132. , p. 131, at Google Books
  7. ↑ Sansom, p. 137. , p. 137, at Google Books
  8. ↑ Cullen, Louis. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582–1941, p. 180–186.

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