Kuze Hirochika (久世 広周, 1819 – July 28, 1864) was a Japanese daimyō of the late Edo period, who ruled the Sekiyado Domain. He served as a rōjū in the Tokugawa shogunate, and briefly as chief rōjū (rōjū shuza 老中首座).

Family[edit]

• Father: Okusa Takayoshi (d.1840)
• Foster Father: Kuze Hirotaka (1799-1830)
• Wife: Abe Masakiyo's daughter
• Children:
  • Kuze Hirofumi (1854-1899)
  • Kuze Hironari (1858-1911)
  • Kuze Hiromitsu
  • daughter married Sakurai Tomoyoshi

References[edit]

• Totman, Conrad. The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1980.