Matsudaira Morisada

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Matsudaira.

Matsudaira Morisada (松平保定 Matsudaira Morisada?); (1926-) is a retired Japanese businessman who is active in historical preservation. The grandson of Matsudaira Katamori, he spends a fair amount of time in Aizu. Morisada was approached by the Imperial Household Agency in the late 1980s, with a request to serve as an official at the mourning ceremony for Emperor Hirohito; simultaneously, they expressed a desire to install him as chief priest of Yasukuni Shrine. Morisada declined the Yasukuni appointment, as the shrine was built to enshrine the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army who died in the Boshin War and exclude those who fought against them, including men of the Aizu, Sendai, Nihonmatsu, and Morioka domains.[1]

Morisada's heir is his son Matsudaira Morihisa.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ (Japanese) 財界21 福島の経済情報誌「財界ふくしま」
  2. ^ Kobiyama Rokurō, Matsudaira Katamori no Shōgai: Shashinshu. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 2003, p. 189
Preceded by
Matsudaira Morio		 Aizu-Matsudaira family head
1944 – present		 Incumbent
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