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Honda Tadamoto

daimyo who ruled the Okazaki Domain (1817-1883)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ3330171 ↗
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Honda Tadamoto (本多 忠民; April 12, 1817 – January 29, 1883) was a Japanese daimyō of the late Edo period, who ruled the Okazaki Domain from 1835 during the Tenpō famine. One of his samurai retainers was the father of Shiga Shigetaka.

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The public source identifies “Honda Tadamoto” as daimyo who ruled the Okazaki Domain (1817-1883). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Honda, Tadamoto and daimyo.

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This entry incorporates text from “Honda Tadamoto” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.