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during

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. He was adopted into the

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as heir to

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. In 1869, he was confirmed as Domain governor, and upon the

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in 1871, governor of the short-lived Tateyama Prefecture. He was subsequently made a

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to carry on the Inaba name.

References

* Papinot, Edmond. (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.'' 1848 births 1902 deaths Fudai daimyo Masayoshi Kazoku {{daimyo-stub