{{Short description|Samurai and Daimyo}} {{family name hatnote|Date|lang=Japanese}} {{No footnotes|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Junior Second Rank<br />Count | honorific_suffix = | name = Munemoto Date | native_name = {{Nobold|伊達 宗基}} | native_name_lang = ja | image = Munemoto Date.jpg | caption = Portrait of Munemoto Date | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1866|08|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Sendai, Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|1917|01|27|1866|08|24|df=y}} | death_place = Tokyo, Japan | other_names = | office1 = 20px 14th ''Daimyō'' of Sendai Domain | monarch1 = '''Shōgun''' {{plainlist| *Tokugawa Yoshinobu }} | term_start1 = 1868 | term_end1 = 1869 | predecessor1 = Date Yoshikuni | successor1 = -none- | office2 = 20px Imperial Governor of Sendai Domain | monarch2 = Emperor Meiji | term_start2 = 1869 | term_end2 = 1870 | predecessor2 = Date Muneatsu | successor2 = -none- | spouse = Matsura Miyako, daughter of Matsura Akira | partner = | children = | father = Date Yoshikuni | mother = }}
Count {{nihongo|'''Munemoto Date'''|伊達 宗基||{{Respell|DAH|tay}}; ''Date Munemoto'', 24 August 1866 – 27 January 1917}} was a Bakumatsu period Japanese samurai, and the 14th and final ''daimyō'' of Sendai Domain in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, and the 30th hereditary chieftain of the Date clan.
==Biography== Munemoto was the second son of Date Yoshikuni. His childhood name was Kamesaburō (亀三郎). In 1868, following the defeat of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei in the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration, Yoshikuni resigned his offices and went into voluntary retirement and seclusion in Tokyo. The new Meiji government permitted the two-year-old Munemoto to become ''daimyō'' of Sendai Domain, but penalized the domain severely for its participation in the rebellion by reducing its ''kokudaka'' from 620,000 to 280,000 ''koku''. The actual ''kokudaka'' of the reduced Sendai Domain was actually even less, and has been estimated at only 100,000 ''koku''.
In 1869, the office of ''daimyō'' was abolished by the new government, and Munemoto was made appointive imperial governor of Sendai. In 1870, he yielded this position to his adoptive brother Date Muneatsu, but retained the post of clan leader.
He was married to the daughter of Matsura Akira, ''daimyō'' of Hirado Domain, by whom he had one daughter.
In 1884, Munemoto was created count (''hakushaku'') in the new Japanese ''kazoku'' peerage system. He was advanced to Third Court Rank in 1911 and Second Court Rank in 1917. On his death in 1917, the post of clan chieftain went to his younger brother Date Kunimune.
==Family== * Father: Date Yoshikuni * Mother: Matsuoka Michiko (Okatsu-no-kata) * Wife: Matsura Kuniko, 3rd daughter of Matsura Akira, ''daimyō'' of Hirado Domain **1st daughter: Eiko (1894-1945), married to Count Ueno Masao, 6th son of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa
==References== *Papinot, Edmond. (1948). ''Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan''. New York: Overbeck Co.
==External links== *[http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/mutudewa/sendai.html Sendai Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607051630/http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/mutudewa/sendai.html |date=2011-06-07 }} (3 November 2007) {{in lang|ja}}
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