Atobe Yoshisuke

In this Japanese name, the surname is Atobe.

Atobe Yoshisuke (跡部 良弼; November 18, 1799 – February 1, 1869) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. A hatamoto serving the Tokugawa shōgun, Yoshisuke was the biological younger brother of the Bakufu senior councilor Mizuno Tadakuni.^[1] Atobe was not known for his good relations with daimyōs, having once angered Date Yoshikuni, the powerful lord of Sendai in Mutsu Province by throwing him out of a highway lodging.

He served as the governor of Yamashiro Province.^[2]

Atobe was appointed to the post of wakadoshiyori in 1868, and died roughly a year later.