was the 7th ''

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Shibata Domain was a '' tozama'' feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It is located in Echigo Province, Honshū. The domain was centered at Shibata Castle, located in what is now the city of Shibata in Niigata Prefecture. It was ...

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(modern-day

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). His

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was '' Izumo-no-kami,'' and his Court rank was Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade.

Biography

Mizoguchi Naoatsu was the fourth son of Mizoguchi Naomichi, a ''

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'' retainer of Shibata Domain from a cadet branch of the Mizoguchi clan. His childhood name was Kamenosuke. He was adopted as posthumous heir to Mizoguchi Naoharu in 1732 and received in formal audience by

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the same year. In 1733, the clan was ordered to help repair the moats on

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. In 1735, the clan was ordered to survey and assist in

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of the Shiunjigata marshes in Echigo Province, after which the clan was entrusted with administration of 16,850 ''

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'' of new ''

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'' lands. Although the domain suffered from fewer flooding disasters than under his predecessors, good harvests conversely drove the price of rice down, and the domain remained unable to free itself of debt. Furthermore, in 1738, the domain was ordered to return the 83,400 koku of ''tenryō'' lands back to direct administration by the shogunate. In 1748, the domain was ordered to assist the Korean embassy to Japan during its stay ate

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on the Tōkaidō. In 1754, the domain traded 52 villages with an assessed ''

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'' of 10,000 ''koku'' to the shogunate in exchange for 33 villages in another location. A similar trade occurred the following year, with the domain trading 15 villages for 31 others. Naoatsu retired in 1761, citing illness, and died in 1780. His grave is at the temple of

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in Tokyo. Naoatsu was married to a daughter of

Matsudaira Nobutoki was a ''daimyō'' during mid-Edo period Japan. Biography Matsudaira Nobutoki was the eldest son of Matsudaira Nobuteru, the ''daimyō'' of Koga Domain in Shimōsa Province. He was given the adult name of Nobutaka in 1694, and did not change hi ...

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 ...

, and had 8 sons and 4 daughters.

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