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Hotta Masayoshi (堀田 正睦, August 30, 1810 – April 26, 1864) was the 5th Hotta daimyō of the Sakura Domain in the Japanese Edo period, who served as chief rōjū in the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa shogunate, where he played an important role in the negotiations of the Ansei Treaties with various foreign powers.
Hotta Masayoshi (born 1810, Edo [now Tokyo], Japan—died April 26, 1864, Sakura) was a Japanese statesman who negotiated the commercial treaty that established trade between the United States and Japan, thus opening that country to commerce with the outside world for the first time in two centuries.
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Hotta Masayoshi was a daimyô of Sakura han (Shimousa province), and head of the rôjû, famous as the chief Japanese official involved in negotiating the 1858 Harris Treaty (US-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce), which opened four Japanese ports to foreign commerce, and granted a degree of extraterritoriality to foreigners in Japan.
Ii recommended that only the port of Nagasaki be opened for trade with foreigners Ii, like Hotta Masayoshi, refused to remain silent while shogunal advisor Abe Masahiro appeased the anti-foreign party.
Hotta Masayoshi was the 5th Hotta daimyō of the Sakura Domain in the Japanese Edo period, who served as chief rōjū in the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa shogunate, where he played an important role in the negotiations of the Ansei Treaties with various foreign powers.
Hotta Masayoshi(堀田 正睦?) was the 5th Hotta daimyō of the Sakura Domain in the Japanese Edo period, who served as chief rōjū in the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa shogunate, where he played an important role in the negotiations of the Ansei Treaties with various foreign powers.
Hotta Masayoshi was a high official in the shogunate in the late Edo period and an advocate of the policy of opening the country to foreign trade.
