was a Japanese ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and n ...

'' of the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

, who ruled the

Karatsu Domain was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It is associated with Hizen Province in modern-day Saga Prefecture.

. He was the eldest son of the previous ''daimyō'', Mizuno Tadakane; after Tadakane's retirement in 1805, he received headship and the title of ''daimyō''. Tadaaki dismissed Nihonmatsu Yoshikado; the '' karō'' whom his father had relied on. Instead, he conducted direct government, and tried to institute reforms. However, his reforms were largely unsuccessful, and so he yielded headship to his son, the reformer Mizuno Tadakuni, and retired.

References

* http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/kyushu/karatu.html (14 March 2008) Daimyo 1771 births 1814 deaths Mizuno clan {{daimyo-stub