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- Born: 1684/1/19
- Died: 1718/9/5
- Titles: Tsushima no kami, Lord of Tsushima han (1694-1718)
- Other Names: 次郎 (Jirou)
- Japanese: 宗義方 (Sou Yoshimichi)
Sô Yoshimichi[1] was lord of Tsushima han in the early years of the 18th century.
He was the fourth son of Sô Yoshizane, and became the fifth lord of Tsushima in 1694. On the occasion of Tokugawa Ienobu becoming shogun, Yoshimichi accompanied the 1711 Korean embassy to Edo. As lord of Tsushima, he also added the 1,560 koku territory of Tashiro in Hizen province to his domain.
References
- "Sô Yoshimichi," Nihon jinmei daijiten 日本人名大辞典, Kodansha 2009.
- ↑ Some sources refer to him as Sô Yoshikata, but this may be simply a misreading of the name. e.g. Joyce Ackroyd, Told Round a Brushwood Fire, Princeton University Press (1979), 314n72.
