was a Japanese ''

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'' of the late

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through early

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. He was born in

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, the eldest son of Miyake Yasusada. Together with his father, Yasunobu served

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, fighting in many of the Tokugawa clan's major campaigns. During the

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(1600), Yasunobu served as castle warden of

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, and was granted wardenship of

Kameyama Castle {{nihongo, Kameyama Castle, 亀山城, Kameyama-jō is the name of many castles in Japan. * Kameyama Castle (Aichi) in Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture (formerly Mikawa Province) * Kameyama Castle (Mie) in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture (formerly Ise Prov ...

after the campaign. In 1614, during the first

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, he defended

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; during the following year, he supervised the defense of

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. After his father's death the same year, he succeeded to family headship, and received his father's domain of Koromo. His income was raised by 2,000 ''

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'' in 1620, when he received the

Ise-Kameyama Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Ise Province in what is part of now modern-day Kameyama, Mie. It was centered around Ise-Kameyama Castle. Ise-Kameyama Domain was controlled by ''fudai daimyō'' c ...

(12,000 ''

''). Yasunobu died in 1632 in Kameyama, at age 70. His eldest son Yasumori succeeded him.

References

Kameyama timeline on Kameyamarekihaku.jp
(19 February 2008) * "Miyake Yasunobu" on the Japanese Wikipedia (19 February 2008) , - Daimyo 1563 births 1632 deaths {{daimyo-stub