Tairō
Tairō (大老, lit. "great elder") was a high-ranking official position in the Tokugawa shogunate government of Japan, roughly comparable to the office of prime minister. The tairō would preside over the governing Rōjū council in the event of an emergency. A tairō would be nominated from among the fudai daimyo, who worked closely with the Tokugawa traditionally. Generally, the office holder was the shogunate's chief policy maker, and provided Japan with a capable temporary leader in the absence of a shogun, or in the event that the shogun was incapacitated.
List of tairō
| Name | Domain | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sakai Tadayo[1] | Harima | March 12, 1636 | March 19, 1636 |
| Doi Toshikatsu[1] | Shimōsa | November 7, 1638 | July 10, 1644 |
| Sakai Tadakatsu[1] | Obama | November 7, 1638 | May 26, 1656 |
| Sakai Tadakiyo[2] | Harima | March 29, 1666 | December 9, 1680 |
| Ii Naozumi | Ōmi | November 19, 1668 | January 3, 1676 |
| Hotta Masatoshi[3] | Shimousa | November 12, 1681 | August 28, 1684 |
| Ii Naooki | Ōmi | June 13, 1696 | March 2, 1700 |
| Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu[4] | Yamato | January 11, 1706 | June 3, 1709 |
| Ii Naooki | Ōmi | February 13, 1711 | February 23, 1714 |
| Ii Naoyuki | Ōmi | November 28, 1784 | September 1, 1787 |
| Ii Naoaki | Ōmi | December 28, 1835 | May 13, 1841 |
| Ii Naosuke[5] | Ōmi | April 23, 1858 | March 24, 1860 |
| Sakai Tadashige | Harima | February 1, 1865 | November 12, 1865 |
See also
- The Five Tairō
Notes
- ^ a b c Sansom, George. (1963). A History of Japan: 1615-1867, p. 22., p. 22, at Google Books
- ^ Sansom, p. 63., p. 63, at Google Books
- ^ Sansom, p. 131-132., p. 131, at Google Books
- ^ Sansom, p. 137., p. 137, at Google Books
- ^ Cullen, Louis. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582-1941, p. 180-186.
References
- Cullen, Louis M. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521821551; ISBN 9780521529181; OCLC 442929163
- Sansom, George Bailey. (1963). A History of Japan: 1615-1867. Stanford: Stanford University Press. OCLC 36820228
