Aoyama Tadatoshi

In this Japanese name, the family name is Aoyama.

Aoyama Tadatoshi (青山 忠俊, March 18, 1578 – June 1, 1643) was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period.

Biography

Tadatoshi was the son of Aoyama Tadanari, a Tokugawa vassal of the Sengoku period who was born in Mikawa Province. Tadatoshi, like his father, was a Tokugawa vassal, and was famous for his role as the third shogun Iemitsu's teacher.

He became a daimyo in 1603, when Tokugawa Ieyasu granted him the domain of Edosaki.

Notes

Preceded by Ashina Morishige	Daimyo of Edosaki 1603–1620	Succeeded by Niwa Nagashige
Preceded by Kōriki Tadafusa	Daimyo of Iwatsuki 1620–1623	Succeeded by Abe Masatsugu
Preceded by Abe Masatsugu	Daimyo of Ōtaki 1623–1625	Succeeded by Abe Masayoshi

References

• (Japanese) Aoyama family history and biographical notes

Further reading

• Bolitho, Harold. (1974). Treasures Among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-01655-0; OCLC 185685588
• Kodama Kōta 児玉幸多, Kitajima Masamoto 北島正元 (1966). Kantō no shohan 関東の諸藩. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha.