Sakai Tadanori

  • Japanese: 酒井 忠学 (Sakai Tadanori)

Sakai Tadanori was the fifth Sakai clan lord of Himeji han.[1]

He married Kiyo-hime, a daughter of Shogun Tokugawa Ienari, in 1832. They had a number of children, including a daughter Kiso-hime (b. 1834), who was married to Tadanori's adopted heir, Sakai Tadatomi.[2]

Another of their daughters, Sho-hime born on 1831/8/15, was adopted by his older bother Sakai Tadamitsu, but died at only three months old, on 1831/11/27.[2]

References

  1. Nakao Yukari 中尾友香梨, "Nihon ni okeru Mingaku no juyô" 「日本における明楽の受容」, in Kojima Yasunori 小島康敬 (ed.), Reigaku bunka 礼楽文化, Tokyo: Pelican-sha (2013), 348-349.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Plaques on-site at Keifuku-ji temple, Himeji.[1][2]