Matsudaira Daini Explained

Matsudaira Daini
Era:Bakumatsu
Other Name(S):Matsudaira Yasumasa, Tetsukichirō, Genba
Grave Place(S):, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
, Makino, Shiga
Shogunate(S):Tokugawa shogunate
Lord(S):Maeda Nariyasu
Domain(S):Kaga Domain
Clan(S):Matsudaira clan
Father, Mother:Father: Matsudaira Kyūbee

, better known as, was a Kaga samurai of the Bakumatsu who served as a karō to the Maeda clan.[1] His common names were and .[2]

Biography

Daini was born as the second son of, a karō of Kaga Domain, in 1823.[3] The Matsudaira family, as retainers to the Maeda clan, held 4,000 koku within Kaga. Daini watched over from 1856, and was a bugyō to Maeda Yoshiyasu, the heir to the fiefdom of Kaga, from 1860. He became a karō in 1863, and went to Kyoto in 1864.[4]

As a, Daini accompanied Yoshiyasu to Kyoto in an attempt for mediation between the Chōshū samurai and the Tokugawa shogunate at the time of the Kinmon incident in 1864. The mediation failed, and in the ensuing battle, Yoshiyasu fled Kyoto. Maeda Nariyasu, Yoshiyasu's father, placed Yoshiyasu under house arrest. Daini took responsibility for Yoshiyasu's role in the Kinmon incident, and was forced to perform seppuku with Sagawa Yoshisuke as his kaishakunin. Yoshisuke recounted the circumstances of Daini's seppuku in his diary.[5] [6] Daini is interred at in Makino, Shiga,[7] [8] while his head is enshrined at in Kanazawa.[9]

In 1879, buildings owned by the Ishikawa Prefecture Kanazawa Hospital were built on the site where Daini's family once resided.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Book: 2013-02-06. Japanese Biographical Index. Walter de Gruyter. 489. 9783110947984.
  2. Web site: 松平大弐. Kotobank. Japanese. Matsudaira Daini. 2019-05-05.
  3. Web site: Nodayama no bohi. The Kanazawa Hyakumangoku Rotary Club. Japanese. ja:野田山の墓碑. Tombstones of Nodayama. 2019-05-05.
  4. Web site: Kaga-han to Kyōto. 2018. Kanazawa Umimirai Library. Japanese. ja:加賀藩と京都. Kaga Domain and Kyoto. 2019-05-05.
  5. Book: Baxter, James C.. 1994. The Meiji Unification Through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture. Harvard Univ Asia Center. 42. 9780674564664.
  6. Web site: 石川県史 第二編. ADEAC. Japanese. 2019-05-05.
  7. Web site: Makinochō no ichibu mo Kaga-han no tobichidatta. 石川滋賀県人会. Japanese. ja:マキノ町の一部も加賀藩の飛地だった. Part of Makino town was also a destination for Kaga Domain. 2019-05-05.
  8. Web site: 正行院. 幕末維新 史跡観光. Japanese. Shōgyōin. 2019-05-05.
  9. Web site: Shiatoru de uketsuga reru Matsudaira-ke. Ogawa. Yuriko. 2019-12-26. The North American Post. Japanese. ja:シアトルで受け継がれる松平家. The Matsudaira Family of Seattle. 2020-06-13.
  10. Web site: Brief Chronology of Kanazawa University's 150 Years. 2017-03-15. Kanazawa University. 2019-05-15.