Tadamitsu Ooka

Japanese: 大岡忠光 - おおおか・ただみつ

Year of death: April 26, 10 of the Horeki era (June 9, 1760)
Year of birth: 1709
A shogunate official and feudal lord in the mid-Edo period. Commonly known as Hyogo, Shuzen. Son of shogunate official Sukeshichiro Tadatoshi. In 1724 (Kyoho 9), he became a page to Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune's eldest son Ieshige and was given 300 bales of rice, and in 1739 he was appointed Izumo no Kami (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade). In 1745, he was given an additional 500 koku, and his rice was changed to a local fief of 800 koku. In 1739 (Genbun 4), he became an apprentice official toritsugi, and in 1745 (Enkyo 2), following Yoshimune's retirement and Ieshige's succession to the Shogun family, he was promoted to the rank of Kosei-gumi clerk. The following year, he became an attendant official toritsugi and was given an additional 1,200 koku. In 1748 (Kan'en 1), he was given an additional 3,000 koku, and in 1751 (Horeki 1), he was given an additional 5,000 koku, making him a daimyo with 10,000 koku. In the fourth year, he was promoted to young councilor of Okukane Obi with an additional stipend of 5,000 koku, and in the sixth year, he was appointed chamberlain and was promoted to Junior Fourth Rank, Lower, and became the lord of Iwatsuki Castle with a fief of 20,000 koku. It is said that Tadamitsu's rise to power was due to the fact that he was the only one who could understand the will of Ieshige, who spoke inarticulate language, but because he was a humble person, he was not very arrogant.

(Masami Fukai)

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Japanese:

没年：宝暦10.4.26(1760.6.9)
生年：宝永6(1709)
江戸中期の幕臣,大名。通称は兵庫,主膳。幕臣助七郎忠利の子。享保9(1724)年将軍徳川吉宗の長男家重付の小姓となって廩米300俵を給され,12年従五位下出雲守に叙任。18年500石加増,廩米を改めて800石の地方知行取となる。元文4(1739)年御用取次見習,延享2(1745)年吉宗の隠退,家重の将軍家相続に伴い小性組番頭格に昇進。翌3年御側御用取次となり,1200石加増。さらに寛延1(1748)年3000石,宝暦1(1751)年5000石を加増され,1万石の大名に取り立てられた。4年には奥兼帯の若年寄に昇進し,5000石加増,次いで6年には側用人に就任して従四位下に昇り,岩槻2万石の城主となった。忠光の出世は言語不明瞭な家重の意志をただひとり理解しえたためといわれるが,性格が恭謙であったため,あまり驕ることはなかったという。

(深井雅海)

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