Tokugawa Ieharu
Ōta Sukeyoshi was the second son of Ōta Suketoshi, the "daimyō" of Kakegawa Domain. Under "Shōgun" Tokugawa Ieharu, he was appointed as "sōshaban" in 1768 and "Jisha-bugyō" in 1755. He rose to the position of "Wakadoshiyori" from 1781. As "daimyō" of Kakegawa, he invited the noted Neo-Confucian scholar Matsuzaka Kōdō to reside in his domain. In 1789, Sukeyoshi was appointed "Kyoto Shoshidai", the shogunate's official representative to the Court in Kyoto. In 1793, Sukeyoshi rose to the position of "rōjū" to the infant "shōgun" Tokugawa Ienari, a position he held until 1801.