Nationality Japanese Name Okubo Tadamasa | Other names Kaga no Kami | |
Born July 28, 1692 ( 1692-07-28 ) Edo, Japan Died November 20, 1732(1732-11-20) (aged 40)
Edo, Japan Occupation Daimyo of Odawara Domain (1713-1732) Spouse(s) daughter of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu | ||
Okubo Tadamasa (大久保 忠方, June 15, 1692 – November 20, 1732) was the 4th daimyo of Odawara Domain in Sagami Province, (modern-day Kanagawa Prefecture) in mid-Edo period Japan. His courtesy title was Kaga no Kami.
Biography
Okubo Tadamasa was the sixth son of Okubo Tadamasu, the second daimyo of Odawara, and was born at the domain’s residence in Edo. He became clan leader and daimyo of Odawara on the death of his father in 1713. At the time, 6,000 koku of his revenues were transferred to his younger brother.
Tadamasa faced the daunting task of attempting to reduce the massive debt incurred by his father to the Tokugawa shogunate due to the Great Genroku earthquake and the Hoei eruption of Mount Fuji, and associated aftershocks, crop failures and floods. Although he encouraged the migration of artisans to Odawara and the opening of new rice lands, high taxation and increasingly severe inflation led to civil unrest in Odawara-juku. Tadamasa died of illness on November 20, 1732 at the domain’s Edo residence, His grave is at the clan temple of Saisho-ji in Setagaya, Tokyo.
Tadamasa was married to an adopted daughter of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the senior advisor to Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.