Background
Ōta Sukeyoshi was the 7th son of Ōta Sukemoto, the 5th daimyō of Kakegawa Domain.
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Career
His father, Ōta Sukemoto, although officially retired from public life, continued to control the domain until his death in June 1867. During this short period, he attempted to strength the domain’s finances through the establishment of a domain medical school and hospital, and sponsoring new industries. In May 1868, with the Meiji Restoration, Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu was forced to resign his office, and the Tokugawa clan under the leadership of Tokugawa Iesada was given the provinces of Suruga, Tōtōmi and a portion of Mikawa Province as compensation.
The Ōta clan was reassigned to a new 53,350 koku domain in Kazusa Province called Shibayama Domain in July of the same year.
In 1869, he became domainal governor under the Meiji government. After the establishment of the kazoku peerage system, he became a viscount (shishaku).
Ōta Sukeyoshi later became a student of C. Carrothers at the Keio Gijuku in Tokyo, the forerunner of Keio University. His grave is at the Ōta clan temple of Honko-ji in Nippori, Tokyo.
