Date Munenari

Marquess Date Munenari Y đạt tông thành
Daimyo Date Munenari
Lord of Uwajima
In office 1844–1858
Preceded by	Date Munetada
Succeeded by	Date Mune'e
Personal details
Born	(1818-09-01)September 1, 1818 Edo,Japan
Died	December 20, 1892(1892-12-20)(aged 74)

In thisJapanese name,thesurnameisDate.

Date Munenari(Y đạt tông thành,September 1, 1818 – December 20, 1892)was the eighth head of theUwajima Domainduring theLate Tokugawa shogunateand apoliticianof the earlyMeiji era.

Early life

Munenari was born inEdo,the 4th son of thehatamotoYamaguchi Naokatsu.Munenari, then known as Kamesaburō quy Tam Lang, was a candidate for adoption by the heirless 7th generation Uwajima lordDate Munetadabecause Naokatsu's father was the 5th Uwajima lord,Date Muratoki.

Clan leader

Munenari succeeded to headship in 1844. ThetairōIi Naosukeordered Munenari's retirement in 1858. He was placed under house arrest.

He returned to prominence in the subsequent years of political maneuvering inKyoto,as a member of the conciliatorykōbu-gattai( công võ hợp thểunion of court and bakufu) party. Late in Bunkyū 3 (1863), as a proponent of kōbu-gattai, he was made a member of the imperial advisory council (sanyō-kaigiTham dự hội nghị ), together withMatsudaira Katamoriand other like-minded lords.

National leader

After the fall of the shogunate in 1868, Munenari took an active role in the new imperial government; Uwajima as a domain was also deeply involved in the military campaign of theBoshin War(1868–1869).

Munenari was a crucial figure inJapan's international relationsduring the early Meiji period. In 1871, representing the Japanese government, he signed theSino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty(Nisshin shukō jōki(Ngày thanh tu hảo nội quy)) withLi Hongzhang,a viceroy ofQing DynastyChina.

Also in 1871, thehan system was abolishedin Japan, and he was able to fully cut his political ties to Uwajima. In 1881, Munenari entertained KingKalākaua,of theKingdom of Hawaii,on the firststate visitto Japan of an actualhead of statein its recorded history.He was first created acountin thenew peerage system,but was later promoted tomarquess.

Munenari died atImadoinTokyoin 1892, at age 75.

Gallery

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  Sino-Japanese Friendship and Trade Treaty,13 September 1871. The treaty was signed inTientsin,by Date Munenari andLi Hongzhang
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  Tomb of Date Munenari (right) inUwajima( vũ cùng đảo chờ 覚 chùa )
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  The emblem (mon) of the Date clan
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  The Marquis Date Munenari

See also

• Ansei purge
• Date clan

Ancestry

Ancestors of Date Munenari
16.Date Muratoshi,4th Lord ofUwajima(1705-1735) 8.Date Muratoki,5th Lord ofUwajima(1725-1794) 17. Date Tomiko 4.Yamaguchi Naokiyo(1754-1793) 9. Tanaka 2.Yamaguchi Naokatsu(1777-1825) 5. Yamaguchi Yoshiko 1.Date Munenari 3. Sawagi

References

• Date Munenari y đạt tông thành.Date Munenari zaikyō nikki.Tokyo: Nihon shiseki kyōkai Nhật Bản sách sử hiệp hội, 1916.
• Nihonshi JitenNhật Bản sử từ điển. Tokyo: Ōbunsha vượng văn xã, 2000.
• Much of this article has been compiled from corresponding content on the Japanese Wikipedia.

Further reading

• Date Munenari y đạt tông thành.Date Munenari zaikyō nikki.Tokyo: Nihon shiseki kyōkai Nhật Bản sách sử hiệp hội, 1916.
• Hyōdō Ken'ichi sĩ quan hiền một.Date Munenari Kō-denY đạt tông thành công truyền. Annotated by Kondō Toshifumi nay đằng tuấn văn. Tokyo: Sōsendo shuppan sang tuyền đường xuất bản, 2005.
• Kusunoki Seiichirō nam tinh một lang.Retsuden Nihon kindaishi: Date Munenari kara Kishi Nobusuke madeLiệt vân ・ Nhật Bản cận đại sử: Y đạt tông thành から ngạn tin giới まで. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha mặt trời mới mọc tin tức xã, 2000.
• Miyoshi Masafumi tam hảo xương văn.Bakumatsu ki Uwajima-han no dōkō: Date Munenari wo chūshin ni: Dai ikkanMạc thời kì cuối vũ cùng đảo phiên の hướng đi: Y đạt tông thành を trung tâm に: Quyển thứ nhất. Uwajima: Miyoshi Masafumi tam hảo xương văn, 2001.
• Tokugawa Nariaki, Date Munenari ōfuku shokanshūĐức xuyên 斉 chiêu ・ y đạt tông thành lặp lại thư hàn tập. Edited by Kawachi Hachirō hà nội tám lang. Tokyo: Azekura Shobō giáo thương thư phòng, 1993.
• Totman, Conrad.The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-1868.Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1980.

External links

Media related toDate Munenariat Wikimedia Commons

• Date Munenari bio(in Japanese)