He is known, like [[Sakai Tadazumi]], first Sakai clan lord of Himeji, for his patronage of [[Ming Dynasty]] music. Tadazumi had invited [[Gi Shimei]], the preeminent Ming music expert of the time, to Himeji in the late 1760s or early 1770s, to teach Ming music to himself and to others in his court. In the first decades of the 1800s, Tadahiro had Ming music performed at gatherings at his [[daimyo yashiki|Edo mansion]], and elsewhere. | He is known, like [[Sakai Tadazumi]], first Sakai clan lord of Himeji, for his patronage of [[Ming Dynasty]] music. Tadazumi had invited [[Gi Shimei]], the preeminent Ming music expert of the time, to Himeji in the late 1760s or early 1770s, to teach Ming music to himself and to others in his court. In the first decades of the 1800s, Tadahiro had Ming music performed at gatherings at his [[daimyo yashiki|Edo mansion]], and elsewhere. |