Sakai Tadakiyo

In this Japanese name, the surname is Sakai.
Not to be confused with Japanese-Brazilian artist and sculptor Tadakiyo Sakai.

Sakai Tadakiyo (酒井 忠清, November 29, 1624 – July 4, 1681), also known as Uta-no-kami,[1] was a daimyō (feudal lord) in Kōzuke Province, and a high-ranking government advisor and official in the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.[2]

The Sakai were identified as one of the fudai or insider daimyō clans which were hereditary vassals or allies of the Tokugawa clan,[3] in contrast with the tozama or outsider clans.

  1. ^ Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice. (1999). Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed, p. 442.
  2. ^ Sansom, George Bailey. (1963). A History of Japan: 1615-1867, pp. 54.
  3. ^ Alpert, Georges. (1888). Ancien Japon, pp. 76-77.