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Ii Naosuke

1815 - 1860

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Ii Naosuke (井伊 直弼; November 29, 1815 – March 24, 1860) 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 assassination in the Sakuradamon Incident on March 24, 1860. He is most famous for signing the Harris Treaty with the United States, granting access to ports for trade to American merchants and seamen and extraterritoriality to American citizens. He was also an enthusiastic and accomplished practitioner of the Japanese tea ceremony, in the Sekishūryū style, and his writings include at least two works on the tea ceremony. Under Ii Naosuke's guidance, the Tokugawa shogunate navigated past a particularly difficult conflict over the succession to the ailing and childless Tokugawa Iesada. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ii Naosuke is the 8,484th most popular politician (down from 8,414th in 2019), the 717th most popular biography from Japan (down from 670th in 2019) and the 245th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ii Naosuke ranks 8,484 out of 19,576. Before him are Mutara III Rudahigwa, Tự Đức, Vladimir Nazor, Helena Kantakouzene, Abd al-Rahman V, and Albert, 4th duc de Broglie. After him are Dong Xian, Princess Yolanda of Savoy, Luis Echeverría, Pakalitha Mosisili, Kujula Kadphises, and Jambyn Batmönkh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Ii Naosuke ranks 32. Before him are George Meade, Anthony Trollope, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Andrew Graham, Charles Renouvier, and Wilhelm Peters. After him are Louise Rasmussen, Horace Wells, James Curtis Hepburn, Jean-Delphin Alard, Eugène Marin Labiche, and Robert Remak. Among people deceased in 1860, Ii Naosuke ranks 22. Before him are Julia Pastrana, Ang Duong, André Marie Constant Duméril, Thomas Addison, Ernst Moritz Arndt, and Ferdinand Christian Baur. After him are Aleksey Khomyakov, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Carl Ritter von Ghega, and George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ii Naosuke ranks 717 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920), Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758), Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), Takashi Murakami (1962), Mikio Naruse (1905), and Ikuo Takahara (1957). After him are Aritatsu Ogi (1942), Shō Shin (1465), Isao Tomita (1932), Emperor Shijō (1231), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), and Kenwa Mabuni (1889).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Ii Naosuke ranks 245. Before him are Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), Yuriko Koike (1952), Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), Emperor Sanjō (976), Hōjō Sōun (1432), and Nitobe Inazō (1862). After him are Shō Shin (1465), Emperor Shijō (1231), Shō Hashi (1371), Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), and Tanzan Ishibashi (1884).

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