Ota Sukemune

Japanese: 太田資宗 - おおた・すけむね

Year of death: 1680
Year of birth: 1600
A feudal lord in the early Edo period. Commonly known as Yasusuke and later Shinrokuro, his official titles were Settsu no Kami, then Saien no Masa, then Bitchu no Kami, and his father was Shigemasa. He served Tokugawa Ieyasu, and later became attached to Tokugawa Hidetada. In 1631 he became the head of the page group, and in 1639 he became its head clerk, serving closely with Tokugawa Iemitsu. In 1640 he became one of the Rokuninshu (later Wakadoshiyori) along with Matsudaira Nobutsuna and others, and in 1641 he was given an additional stipend of 10,000 koku, becoming a feudal lord. In 1642 he went down to Kyushu during the Shimabara Rebellion, and in the same year became a soshaban (a representative of the government) and was given a fief of 35,000 koku in Nishio, Mikawa (Aichi Prefecture). The following year, in 1643 he went on a business trip to Nagasaki to announce the prohibition of Portuguese ships from arriving. He later compiled the "Kan'ei Shoka Keizuden." In 1644 he moved to Hamamatsu Castle. A descendant of six generations of Ota Dokan, he adorned the finest of the Tokugawa vassals.

(Yasuyoshi Shiraga)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：延宝8(1680)
生年：慶長5(1600)
江戸前期の大名。通称は康資のち新六郎,官職名は摂津守のち采女正のち備中守,父は重正。徳川家康に出仕,のち徳川秀忠に付属される。寛永8(1631)年小姓組組頭,9年同番頭となり徳川家光に近侍する。10年松平信綱らと共に六人衆(のちの若年寄)となり,12年加増1万石を得て大名となる。15年島原の乱のとき九州へ下向,同年奏者番となり三河(愛知県)西尾で3万5000石を領知。翌16年長崎へ出張しポルトガル船来航禁止を伝える。のち『寛永諸家系図伝』の編纂に当たる。正保1(1644)年浜松城に移る。太田道灌6代の子孫,徳川家臣団の綺羅を飾る。

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