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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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). His courtesy title was '' Shinano-no-kami,'' and his Court rank was Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade.

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Mizoguchi Naoharu was the second son of Mizoguchi Shigemoto and was born in Shibata. He was received in formal audience by

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in 1694 and became ''daimyō'' in 1719 on the death of his father. In 1724, he was entrusted with the administration of 43,000 ''

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'' lands in Echigo Province, and another 20,000 ''koku'' in 1729. Despite this addition income, the domain was unable to free itself from debt due to repeated flood disasters, and was forced to terminate the employment of some low-level samurai and to reduce the stipends of others. Naoharu died in

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in 1732 at the age of 23. His grave is at the temple of

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in Tokyo. Naoharu was engaged to a daughter of

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, but fell ill before the marriage was finalized and the engagement was cancelled. As he died without heir, the domain quickly adopted Kamenosuke, the son of a ''

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'' cadet branch of the clan as heir.

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