was

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominal ...

Tateyama Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Awa Province (southern modern-day Chiba Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Tateyama Castle in what is now the city of Tateyama, Chiba. History Most of the B� ...

during late-

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...

Japan.

Biography

Inaba Masatake was the fourth son of the previous

of Tateyama Domain,

Inaba Masaaki was ''daimyō'' of Tateyama Domain during late-Edo period Japan. Biography Inaba Masaaki was the third son of the ''daimyō'' of Yodo Domain in Yamashiro Province, Inaba Masachika On his father's death, he received a 3000 ''koku'' stipend and ...

. On the death of his elder brother, Inaba Masanori, in 1788, he was appointed heir. He succeeded to the head of the Tateyama Inaba clan and the position of daimyō of Tateyama on the forced retirement of his father the following year. He is noting for having completed the Tateyama ''

Jin'ya A was a type of administrative headquarters in the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo period of Japanese history. ''Jin'ya'' served as the seat of the administration for a small domain, a province, or additional parcels of land. ''Jin'ya'' hou ...

'', a fortified residence next to the site of

Tateyama Castle is a Japanese castle are fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone. They evolved from the wooden stockades of earlier centuries, and came into their best-known form in the 16th century. Castles in Japan were built to guard important or ...

, which become the seat of the Tateyama Inaba clan until the

Meiji Restoration The , referred to at the time as the , and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Although there were ...

. Inaba Masatake was married to a daughter of

Tanuma Okitomo Tanuma (written: 田沼 lit "rice field swamp") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese rugby union player *, Japanese ''rōjū'' and ''daimyō'' *, Japanese photographer See also * Tanuma Station, a railway sta ...

, daimyō of

Sagara Domain was a Japanese feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period, located in Tōtōmi Province. The domain was centered in what is now the Sagara district of Makinohara city, Shizuoka Prefecture.

in Suruga Province. He retired from public life in 1812, turning Tateyama Domain over to his son,

Inaba Masamori was daimyō of Tateyama Domain during the late-Edo period Japan. Biography Inaba Masamori was the eldest son of the previous daimyō of Tateyama Domain, Inaba Masatake. On the retirement of his father in 1812, he succeeded to the head of the Tat ...

References

* Papinot, Edmund. (1906) ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon.'' Tokyo: Librarie Sansaish
..Click link for digitized 1906 ''Nobiliaire du japon'' (2003)
* ''The content of much of this article was derived from that of the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia.'' Fudai daimyo 1769 births 1840 deaths Masatake {{daimyo-stub