Kuze Hirochika

Kuze Hirochika
Lord of Sekiyado
In office 1830–1862
Preceded by	Kuze Hirotaka
Succeeded by	Kuze Hirofumi
Personal details
Born	1819 Edo, Japan
Died	July 28, 1864

Kuze Hirochika (久世 広周, 1819 – July 28, 1864) was a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period, who ruled the Sekiyado Domain. He served as a rōjū in the Tokugawa shogunate, and briefly as chief rōjū (rōjū shuza 老中首座).

References

• Totman, Conrad. The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-1868. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1980.