Oinomikado Tsunehide (大炊御門経秀)

Tsunehide OINOMIKADO (April 18, 1711 - December 20, 1752) was Kugyo (court noble) in the middle of the Edo period. He served the Imperial Court for three reigns, Emperor Nakamikado (the 114th), Emperor Sakuramachi (the 115th) and Emperor Momozono (the 116th) and was promoted to Shonii Naidaijin (Senior Second Rank, minister of the center). His father was Tsunenari OINOMIKADO (Gon Dainagon [provisional major counselor]). His mother was an adopted daughter (a daughter of Yoshinaka KIRA) of Tsunanori UESUGI (the lord of the Yonezawa domain). He had a younger brother, 隆煕 WASHINOO (鷲尾) (Gon Dainagon). His wife was a daughter of Sadaijin (minister of the left) Fuyuhiro DAIGO. He had a son, Udaijin (minister of the right) Ietaka OINOMIKADO.

In 1712, he was conferred a peerage, and after that, he was quickly promoted as th head of the Seiga family (the second highest family status for court nobles) and took the posts of Jiju (Imperial Household Agency staff), Sakonoe no Shosho, and Sakonoe no Chujo, and then he was promoted to Jusanmi (Junior Court Rank) in 1724 and was ranked with Kugyo. After that, he served as Toka no sechie Geben (a kugyo who supervised many matters outside Jomei Gate at Toka no sechie (Imperial Court Ceremony)) and Gon Dainagon, he took the posts of Ukone no daisho (Major Captain of the Right Division of Inner Palace Guards) and Umaryo gogen (Inspector of the Right Division of Bureau of Horses) in 1747. Although he took the post of Naidaijin (minister of the center) in 1749, he resigned the post.

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