Konoe Tadahiro

Japanese: 近衛忠凞 - このえただひろ

1808‐98 (Bunka 5‐Meiji 31)
A nobleman in the late Edo period. In 1847 (Koka 4), he became the Minister of the Right. At the request of Shimazu Nariakira, he adopted Nariakira's adopted daughter, Sumiko, and married her to Shogun Tokugawa Iesada from the Konoe family in December 1856 (Ansei 3). This was a move to set up Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu, who was recommended by Nariakira and Matsudaira Yoshinaga, as the Shogun's successor (the Shogun's succession issue). In 1857, he became the Minister of the Left, and together with Takatsukasa Masamichi, Takatsukasa Sukehiro, and Sanjo Sanetomo, he campaigned to support Yoshinobu, and was in opposition to the regent Kujo Naotada, who had allied with Ii Naosuke. Even after Tokugawa Yoshitoku was selected as the successor in June 1858, he continued to criticize the Shogunate for signing the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan without imperial permission, and participated in the imperial surrender to the Mito domain in August of the same year.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1808‐98(文化5‐明治31)
幕末期の公卿。1847年(弘化4)右大臣となる。島津斉彬の要請をうけて，斉彬の養女敬子（すみこ）をみずからの養女とし，56年(安政3)12月，近衛家から将軍徳川家定に嫁がせた。これは，斉彬や松平慶永が推した一橋慶喜を将軍継嗣に定めるための布石であった(将軍継嗣問題)。57年左大臣となり，鷹司政通，鷹司輔熙，三条実万とともに慶喜擁立のために運動し，井伊直弼と結んだ関白九条尚忠とは対抗関係にあった。58年6月，継嗣が徳川慶福に定まった後も，勅許を得ないで日米修好通商条約に調印したことを理由として幕府を批判し続け，同年8月の水戸藩への降勅にも参画した。

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