Kuze Hirochika

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

• 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

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