Nationality Japanese Name Okubo Tadaoki | Other names Dewa no Kami | |
Born January 24, 1715 ( 1715-01-24 ) Died November 22, 1764(1764-11-22) (aged 49)
Edo, Japan Occupation Daimyo of Odawara Domain (1732-1763) Spouse(s) daughter of Yanagisawa Yoshisato | ||
Okubo Tadaoki (大久保 忠興, January 24, 1715 – November 22, 1764) was the 4th daimyo of Odawara Domain in Sagami Province, (modern-day Kanagawa Prefecture) in mid-Edo period Japan. His courtesy title was Dewa no Kami.
Biography
Okubo Tadaoki was the eldest son of Okubo Tadamasa, the 3rd daimyo of Odawara, and was born at Odawara Castle. He became clan leader and daimyo of Odawara on the death of his father in 1732. He held a number of minor ceremonial posts within the Tokugawa shogunate, but his tenure was noted for a steady deterioration in the state of the domain’s finances, which were still suffering from the after effects of the Great Genroku earthquake and the Hoei eruption of Mount Fuji. Tadaoki implemented various austerity measures, cumulating in the restructuring of 80 percent of the domain’s retainers due to a state of near bankruptcy. He retired from public life in 1763 with these issues unresolved, and died of illness on November 2, 1764 at the domain’s Edo residence, His grave is at the clan temple of Saisho-ji in Setagaya, Tokyo.
Takaoki was married to a daughter of Yanagisawa Yoshisato, daimyo of Yamato-Koriyama Domain in Yamato Province.