Matsudaira Mitsumichi

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Matsudaira".

Matsudaira Mitsumichi (松平 光通, 10 June 1636–29 April 1674) was a Japanese daimyo of the Edo period. He was the head of the Fukui Domain in Echizen Province.[1]

Early life

Mitsumichi was born Matsudaira Manchiyomaru on June 10, 1636, and was the second son of Matsudaira Tadamasa.

Mature years

With Tademasa's death in 1645, he became the clan leader and head of his father's domain.

He took the name Mitsumichi. At this time, 50,000 koku of land was given to his elder half-brother Masakatsu (childhood name Senkiku) to form the Matsuoka Domain, and 25,000 koku was given to his younger half-brother, Masachika (childhood name Tatsunosuke) to form the Yoshie Domain. For a time, because of Mitsumichi's young age, domainal affairs were overseen by the likes of senior retainers such as Honda Tomimasa, who had served the clan since the days of Hideyasu. However, as these men were all very elderly, they began dying one by one, and soon Mitsumichi commenced a policy of personal oversight in the domain's government. Mitsumuchi was famous as a wise lord, and enacted many legal codes which helped improve his domain's foundation and its economy. He was also renowned as a sponsor of Confucianism.

He was a patron of the arts.[2]

In 1658, he built Daian-zenji as a family memorial temple for the Matsudaira clan.[1]

In 1661, Fukui became the first han to issue hansatsu (domain paper money).[3]

See also

References

Emblem (mon) of the Matsudaira clan
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Foulk, T. Griffin. "The Forgotten history of Daian-zenji, a Tokugawa-period Zen Monastery," The Japan Foundation Newsletter (Kokusai Kōryū Kikin), Vol. 22-26 (1994), p. 10; excerpt, "The founding patron, Matsudaira Mitsumichi (d.1674), was the great- grandson of the first feudal lord of Echizen, Yūki Hideyasu ... Mitsumichi built Daian- zenji as a family memorial temple for the Matsudaira clan, the hereditary lords of Echizen"; retrieved 2013-4-9.
  2. ↑ Kita, Sandy. (1999). The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e, p. 238.
  3. ↑ Gow, Ian. (2004). Military Intervention in Pre-War Japanese Politics, p. 16.

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Preceded by
Matsudaira Tadamasa		 Daimyo of Fukui
1645-1674 		Succeeded by
Matsudaira Masachika