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[[File:Hottamasayoshi.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Statue of Hotta Masayoshi at [[Sakura castle]].]]
[[File:Grave-hottamasayoshi.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Grave of Hotta Masayoshi at [[Jindai-ji]] in Sakura, [[Chiba prefecture|Chiba]].]]
*''Born: [[1810]]''
*''Born: [[1810]]''
*''Died: [[1864]]''
*''Died: [[1864]]/3/21''
*''Japanese'': [[堀田]]正睦 ''(Hotta Masayoshi)''
*''Japanese'': [[堀田]]正睦 ''(Hotta Masayoshi)''
Hotta Masayoshi was a ''daimyô'' of [[Sakura han]], and head of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'', famous as the chief Japanese official involved in negotiating the [[1858]] [[Harris Treaty]] (US-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce), which opened four Japanese ports to foreign commerce, and granted a degree of [[extraterritoriality]] to foreigners in Japan.
Hotta Masayoshi was a ''daimyô'' of [[Sakura han]] ([[Shimousa province]]), and head of the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'', famous as the chief Japanese official involved in negotiating the [[1858]] [[Harris Treaty]] (US-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce), which opened four Japanese ports to foreign commerce, and granted a degree of [[extraterritoriality]] to foreigners in Japan.
Masayoshi became lord of Sakura in [[1825]],
Masayoshi became lord of Sakura in [[1825]], and was later named head of the ''rôjû'' (''rôjû shuza'') in [[1855]]. He was appointed ''gaikoku-jimu-toriatsukai'' (essentially, "foreign minister") the following year, and in opposition to certain other prominent figures in the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], took a stance that Japan needed to engage more actively and openly in foreign intercourse in order to prosper. He thus negotiated the terms of a treaty with US Consul [[Townsend Harris]], resulting in the signing of the treaty on [[1858]]/7/19 (July 29).
Masayoshi returned to Sakura shortly after the signing of the treaty, and died there on [[1864]]/3/21.
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==References==
*Plaque at [[Sakura castle]].
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