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*''Born: [[1658]]''
*''Died: [[1714]]/11/2''
*''Titles: [[soba yonin|soba yônin]] (1688-?), [[Roju|Rôjû]] & [[Tairo|Tairô]] ([[1706]]/1/11-[[1709]]/6/3), Dewa-no-kami, Mino-no-kami''
*''Other Names: Fusayasu, Yasuakira, Matsudaira Yoshiyasu, Yatarô, Hozan, Shôshô Yoshiyasu''
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu was a prominent shogunal advisor, serving as [[Tairo|Tairô]] from [[1706]] to [[1709]].
Previously known as Fusayasu and Yasuakira, he was at some point granted the privilege of the use of the clan name [[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]]. The son of a samurai, he became ''[[soba yonin|soba yônin]]'' under [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] in [[1688]]. Yoshiyasu became lord of the 150,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of [[Kofu han|Kôfu]] in [[1704]], and then ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' and ''Tairô'' in 1706, serving in that position until 1709.
He had the [[Rikugien]] gardens in [[Edo]] built sometime around 1699-1706.
==References==
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n31.
*Plaques on-site at Rikugien.
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
*''Died: [[1714]]/11/2''
*''Titles: [[soba yonin|soba yônin]] (1688-?), [[Roju|Rôjû]] & [[Tairo|Tairô]] ([[1706]]/1/11-[[1709]]/6/3), Dewa-no-kami, Mino-no-kami''
*''Other Names: Fusayasu, Yasuakira, Matsudaira Yoshiyasu, Yatarô, Hozan, Shôshô Yoshiyasu''
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu was a prominent shogunal advisor, serving as [[Tairo|Tairô]] from [[1706]] to [[1709]].
Previously known as Fusayasu and Yasuakira, he was at some point granted the privilege of the use of the clan name [[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]]. The son of a samurai, he became ''[[soba yonin|soba yônin]]'' under [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] in [[1688]]. Yoshiyasu became lord of the 150,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of [[Kofu han|Kôfu]] in [[1704]], and then ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' and ''Tairô'' in 1706, serving in that position until 1709.
He had the [[Rikugien]] gardens in [[Edo]] built sometime around 1699-1706.
==References==
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n31.
*Plaques on-site at Rikugien.
<references/>
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
