was a Japanese samurai in the Sengoku period.

Early life

Tatsutaka was the fourth son of Hosokawa Tadaoki (1563–1646). In 1634, he married Tsuru, the daughter of Gojo Tameyuku. They had two sons, Hosokawa Yukitaka and Hosokawa Kamematsu, and one daughter. He had one concubine.

Hosokawa Tatsutaka

Tatsutaka participated in the suppression of the Shimabara Rebellion in 1638. The next year, he was granted an audience with the shōgun.

Hosokawa Tatsutaka

Daimyo

The Uto Domain (30,000 koku) was created in Higo Province when Tadaoki abdicated, so that Tatsutaka would have a fief to inherit upon his father's death. However, Tatsutaka died the same year, and rights of inheritance were transferred to his first son Yukitaka (1637–1690), so that he and his young siblings would be not be left impoverished. The child Yukitaka thus became the first lord of the newly created Uto Domain on the death of his father in 1646. He also became head of a cadet branch of the Hosokawa clan.

Hosokawa Tatsutaka

References

External links

"Uto" at Edo 330

Uto City Digital Museum

1615 births

1645 deaths

Daimyo

Higo-Hosokawa clan