was the 9th '' daimyō'' of

Kaminoyama Domain a feudal domain in Edo period Japan, located in Dewa Province (modern-day Yamagata Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Kaminoyama Castle in what is now the city of Kaminoyama, Yamagata. History Kaminoyama Domain was situated on the strategic ...

in Dewa Province during Bakumatsu period Japan, and the 15th chieftain of the Fujii Matsudaira clan. His

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was ''Yamashiro-no-kami''.

Biography

Matsudaira Nobutsune was the eldest son of Matsudaira Nobumichi, the 8th ''daimyō'' of Kaminoyama. He became ''daimyō'' on the retirement of his father in 1862. During his tenure, he is noted for building an irrigation canal. In late 1867, he was appointed commander of the shogunate forces which (together with forces from Shōnai Domain, participated in the arson attack against the

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residence in

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, which was one of the flash-points for the start of then

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. Kaminoyama Domain's '' karō'', Kaneko Kiyokuni was killed in the attack. During the Boshin War, the domain was a member of the pro-Tokugawa Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei. He surrendered to the Meiji government in September 1868 and was placed under

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at the clan's '' bodaiji'' of Shoko-ji in Tokyo. The domain was reduced in ''

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'' by 3000 ''

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'' and Nobutsune was forced to retire in favor of his younger brother, Matsudaira Nobuyasu. He died in 1918 at the age of 75.

References

* Papinot, Edmond. (1906) ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon''. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaish
..Click link for digitized 1906 ''Nobiliaire du japon'' (2003)
*"Tokugawa Shōgun-ke to Matsudaira Ichizoku". ''Rekishi Dokuhon'', Jan. 2006, p. 231. * ''The content of much of this article was derived from that of the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Matsudaira, Nobutsune (Kaminoyama) 1844 births 1918 deaths Daimyo People of the Boshin War Fujii-Matsudaira clan