Yorihiro Matsudaira
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Count {{nihongo|Yorihiro Matsudaira|松平頼明|Matsudaira Yorihiro}} (August 13, 1909 – February 23, 1990), Riji of Hongō Gakue, who was the descendant of the feudal lord of the former Takamatsu Domain, served as the International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of Japan as well as president of the Kagawa Scout Council. He was one of the original founders of Japanese Scouting in 1922.
Career
Count Matsudaira, whose namesake was a daimyō of the late Edo period, the ninth lord of Takamatsu, was the 13th head of the Matsudaira family. He established a troop in Tokyo, now Gakushūin Group 1 in Toshima. He had an extended tour of the United States, during which he was a leader of the delegation of 22 Japanese Boy Scouts to the National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, held at Irvine Ranch in southern California in July 1953 and later spent a month at the Schiff Scout Reservation in New Jersey attending the national training school for Scout executives. He also visited Arthur A. Schuck, the Chief Scout Executive at the national office of the Boy Scouts of America in New York City. In 1955, Kingsley C. Dassanaike worked to promote Scouting for the deaf and blind to Matsudaira, who would later found the Nippon Agoonoree based on their work together.D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1
Awards and honors
In 1981, Matsudaira was awarded the 149th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, at the 28th World Scout Conference.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/List | title = List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award | publisher = WOSM | website=scout.org |access-date=2019-05-01}} His son Yoritake Matsudaira received the award in 2012. In 1989 he also received the highest distinction of the Scout Association of Japan, the Golden Pheasant Award.{{Cite web |date=2014-05-23|script-title=ja:䝪䞊䜲䝇䜹䜴䝖日本連盟 きじ章受章者 |trans-title=Recipient of the Golden Pheasant Award of the Scout Association of Japan |url=http://reinanzaka-sc.o.oo7.jp/kiroku/documents/20140523-3-kiji-list.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811030258/http://reinanzaka-sc.o.oo7.jp/kiroku/documents/20140523-3-kiji-list.pdf |archive-date=2020-08-11 |website=Reinanzaka Scout Club| language=ja}}
Ancestry
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|1= 1. Count Matsudaira Yorihiro
|2= 2. Matsudaira Yutaka (1879–1945)
|3= 3. Lady Nabeshima Toshiko (1890–1985)
|4= 4. Count Matsudaira Yoritoshi, 11th daimyō of Takamatsu (1834–1903)
|5= 5. Ii Chiyoko (1846–1927)
|6= 6. Marquess Nabeshima Naohiro, 11th daimyō of Saga (1846–1921)
|7= 7. Asa Chiyo
|8= 8. Matsudaira Yorihiro, 9th daimyō of Takamatsu (1798–1842)
|9= 9. Asada Yae
|10=10. Tairō Ii Naosuke, 15th daimyō of Hikone (1815–1860)
|11=11. Senda Shizue
|12=12. Nabeshima Naomasa, 10th daimyō of Saga (1815–1871)
|13=13. Tokugawa Tatsuko (1830–1886)
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|16= 16. Tokugawa Harutoshi, 7th daimyō of Mito (1773–1816)
|17= 17. Nakayama Yaezaki
|18= 18. Asada
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|20= 20. Ii Naonaka, 13th daimyō of Hikone (1766–1831)
|21= 21. Kimita Tomi (1785–1819)
|22= 22. Senda Takashina
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|24= 24. Nabeshima Narinao, 9th daimyō of Saga (1780–1839)
|25= 25. Ikeda Sachiko (1788–1837)
|26= 26. Tokugawa Narimasa, 3rd Tayasu-Tokugawa family head (1779–1848)
|27= 27. Seishōin (1796–1871)
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References
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- Dr. László Nagy, 250 Million Scouts, the World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985, complete list through 1981
External links
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- [http://www.shikoku-np.co.jp/feature/dreamers/161/ Matsudaira Family Biography] {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://72.9.148.189/library/Matsudaira Matsudaira Clan on World Wizzy]
- [http://www5.airnet.ne.jp/bsy87/Y87eng/eNews/08_BRZ/eY87_2008_brz_01a.html Full list of Japanese Bronze Wolf recipients]
- [http://ddr.densho.org/ddr/njpa/4/809/ Photo of Matsudaira with Hawaiian Boy Scout leaders]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=Frw1vEmyHSMC&dq=Yorihiro+Matsudaira&pg=PA114 Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900: Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection, p.114]
- [http://www.scout.or.jp/_userdata/message/matudaira_interview.pdf "Adults in Scouting" article on Matsudaira] {{in lang|ja}}
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