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Ii Naosuke (井伊 直弼, November 29, 1815 – March 24, 1860) [1] was a daimyō (feudal lord) of Hikone (1850–1860) and also Tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858, until his death, assassinated in the Sakuradamon Incident on March 24, 1860.
Ii Naosuke (born Nov. 29, 1815, Hikone, Japan—died March 24, 1860, Edo [now Tokyo]) was a Japanese feudal lord and statesman who was responsible for Japan’s signing the first treaty of commerce with the United States (1858), opening the country to Western influence, and for the last attempt at reasserting the traditional political role of the To...
- Nobutaka Ike
Jun 23, 2018 · Ii Naosuke (井伊直弼, 1815-1860) was the fourteenth daimyō of the Hikone Domain (modern-day Shiga Prefecture) and as tairō (大老, "regent") of the Tokugawa shogunate the de-facto ruler of Japan for almost two years (1858-60).
Ii Naosuke , (born Nov. 29, 1815, Hikone, Japan—died March 24, 1860, Edo [now Tokyo]), Japanese daimyo and statesman who made the last attempt to reassert the traditional political role of the shogunate (military ruler).
Ii Naosuke was a powerful and influential daimyo in the Tokugawa shogunate, who advocated for opening Japan to foreign trade and faced opposition from the emperor and the Mito clan. He was assassinated by 17 ronin in 1860, but his policies of modernization continued to shape Japan's future.
The Sakuradamon Incident (桜田門外の変, Sakuradamon-gai no Hen, or 桜田門の変 Sakuradamon no Hen) was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister ( Tairō) of the Tokugawa shogunate, on March 24, 1860 by rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain and Satsuma Domain, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle .
Aug 26, 2020 · Ii Naosuke was a prominent Tairô of the Bakumatsu period, known for his support of ending the maritime restrictions of the Edo period and "opening" the country, and for his engineering of the Ansei Purges in which he purged from the government a great many shogunate officials belonging to rival factions.
