Tairō

Tairō (Japanese: 大老, "great elder") was a high-ranking official position in the Tokugawa shogunate government of Japan, roughly comparable to the office of prime minister. The tairō presided over the governing rōjū council in the event of an emergency. A tairō was nominated from among the fudai daimyōs, who worked closely with the Tokugawa traditionally. Generally, the office holder was the shogunate's chief policy maker, and provided Japan with a capable temporary leader in the absence of a shōgun, or in the event that the shōgun was incapacitated.

List of tairō
Name Domain From To Shogun
Sakai Tadayo[1] Harima March 12, 1636 March 19, 1636 Tokugawa Iemitsu
Doi Toshikatsu[1] Shimōsa November 7, 1638 July 10, 1644 Tokugawa Iemitsu
Sakai Tadakatsu[1] Obama November 7, 1638 May 26, 1656 Tokugawa Iemitsu
Tokugawa Ietsuna
Sakai Tadakiyo[2] Harima March 29, 1666 December 9, 1680 Tokugawa Ietsuna
Ii Naozumi Ōmi November 19, 1668 January 3, 1676 Tokugawa Ietsuna
Hotta Masatoshi[3] Shimousa November 12, 1681 August 28, 1684 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Ii Naooki Ōmi June 13, 1696 March 2, 1700 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu[4] Yamato January 11, 1706 June 3, 1709 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Ii Naooki Ōmi February 13, 1711 February 23, 1714 Tokugawa Ienobu
Tokugawa Ietsugu
Ii Naoyuki Ōmi November 28, 1784 September 1, 1787 Tokugawa Ieharu
Tokugawa Ienari
Ii Naoaki Ōmi December 28, 1835 May 13, 1841 Tokugawa Ienari
Tokugawa Ieyoshi
Ii Naosuke[5] Ōmi April 23, 1858 March 24, 1860 Tokugawa Iesada
Tokugawa Iemochi
Sakai Tadashige Harima February 1, 1865 November 12, 1865 Tokugawa Iemochi

See also

Notes
  1. Sansom, George. (1963). A History of Japan: 1615–1867, p. 22., p. 22, at Google Books
  2. Sansom, p. 63., p. 63, at Google Books
  3. Sansom, p. 131–132., p. 131, at Google Books
  4. Sansom, p. 137., p. 137, at Google Books
  5. Cullen, Louis. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582–1941, p. 180–186.

References
  • Cullen, Louis M. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521821551; ISBN 9780521529181; OCLC 442929163
  • Sansom, George Bailey. (1963). A History of Japan: 1615-1867. Stanford: Stanford University Press. OCLC 36820228
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