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Nationality
  
Japanese

Occupation
  
Daimyo

Died
  
March 29, 1736

Other names
  
Tango-no-kami

Name
  
Yonekura Tadasuke

Born
  
March 15, 1706 (
1706-03-15
)

Yonekura Tadasuke (米倉忠仰, March 15, 1706 – May 29, 1736) was a daimyo in mid-Edo period Japan. His courtesy title was Tango-no-kami.

Biography

Yonekura Tadasuke was the sixth son of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, a favorite of Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi who served in a number of important posts within the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate. In 1710, he was adopted by Yonekura Masateru, the daimyo of Minagawa Domain in Shimotsuke Province, and succeeded to the head of the Yonekura clan and daimyo of Minagawa two years later. On September 1, 1716, he was received in a formal audience by Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune. On July 27, 1722, he transferred the seat of the Yonekura clan to Mutsuura Domain in southern Musashi Province, (modern-day Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture), where his descendants continued to reside until the Meiji Restoration.

Yonelura Tadasuke died of illness at the young age of 30, leaving behind Yonekura Satonori, his two-year-old heir. This resulted in an O-Ie Sodo, in which some of his retainers misrepresented the young heir’s age to the shogunate.

Yonekura Tadasuke was married to a daughter of Honda Tadanao, the daimyo of Koriyama Domain in Yamato Province.

References

Yonekura Tadasuke Wikipedia