was a ''
daimyō'' and official of the
Tokugawa shogunate during mid-
Edo period Japan
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.
Biography
Inoue Masasada was the second son of the previous ''
daimyō'' of
Hamamatsu Domain
was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Tōtōmi Province. It was centered on what is now Hamamatsu Castle in what is now the city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Hamamatsu was the residence of Tokugawa Ieyasu for much of his ea ...
,
Inoue Masatsune
was a ''daimyō'' and official of the Tokugawa shogunate during mid-Edo period Japan.
Biography
Inoue Masatsune was the eldest son of the daimyō of Kasama Domain in Hitachi Province, Inoue Masayuki. He was introduced in a formal audience to ...
. He became 7th head of the Mikawa-branch of
Inoue clan and ''daimyō'' of Hamamatsu Domain on his father's death in 1766. In 1769, he was awarded Lower 5th Court Rank and the courtesy title of ''
Kawachi-no-kami.''
In 1774, Masasada entered the administration of the
Tokugawa shogunate as a ''
Sōshaban'' (Master of Ceremonies), becoming ''
Jisha-bugyō'' on May 11, 1781.
Inoue Masasada was married to a daughter of
Matsudaira Norisuke
The was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan. It originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province (modern-day Aichi Prefecture). During the Sengoku period, the chieftain of the main line of th ...
, daimyō of
Yamagata Domain, but had three other concubines. He died in 1786 at the relatively young age of 33 and was succeeded by his eldest son
Inoue Masamoto.
References
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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.''
Fudai daimyo
1754 births
1786 deaths
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