Shigemasa Ikeda

Japanese: 池田茂政 - いけだ・もちまさ

Year of death: December 12, 1899
Year of birth: Tenpo 10.10.11 (1839.11.16)
He was the lord of Okayama Domain during the late Edo period. His father was Tokugawa Nariaki, the lord of Mito Domain. He was the younger brother of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th Shogun of the Edo Shogunate, and Matsudaira Takeaki, the lord of Hamada Domain, and the older brother of Ikeda Yoshinori, the lord of Tottori Domain. His childhood name was Kuromaro, and his pen name was Rakuzan. In 1863, he was adopted by Ikeda Yoshimasa, and was given the first part of the name of Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi and changed his name to Shigemasa. In the administration of the domain, he worked to promote lower-ranking samurai and to develop modern military equipment. In the political situation at the end of the Edo period, he took a position of revering the Emperor and expelling the barbarians, but he struggled to be caught between the Imperial Court and the Shogunate. While he requested a delay in his personal expedition to expel the barbarians, he was opposed to the Choshu Expedition. When the Battle of Toba-Fushimi broke out, he retired and adopted Ikeda Masaaki (later Akimasa), the lord of the Kamogata branch domain (Okayama Prefecture). After the Meiji Restoration, he served as the head of the Danjodai and after his retirement, he worked to revive Noh.

(Junichi Nagai)

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Japanese:

没年：明治32.12.12(1899)
生年：天保10.10.11(1839.11.16)
幕末の岡山藩主。父は水戸藩主徳川斉昭。江戸幕府第15代将軍徳川慶喜と浜田藩主松平武聡は実弟,鳥取藩主池田慶徳は実兄。幼名は九郎麿,雅号は楽山。文久3(1863)年池田慶政の養子となり,将軍徳川家茂の偏諱を賜わり茂政と改名した。藩政においては下級藩士の登用や近代的な軍備の整備に努めた。幕末の政局に際しては尊王攘夷の立場をとったが,朝幕間の板挟みとなって苦心した。攘夷親征の猶予を奏請する一方,長州征討には反対している。鳥羽・伏見の戦の勃発に際し引退して鴨方支藩(岡山県)藩主池田政詮(のち章政)を養子に迎えた。維新後,弾正台大弼を務め引退後は能楽復興に努めた。<参考文献>衣笠健雄『史談会速記録407 池田茂政公事歴』

(長井純市)

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