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'' of the late

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 character ...

.Meyer, Eva-Maria
"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".

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(in German). The Makino were identified as one of the '' fudai'' or insider ''daimyō'' clans which were hereditary vassals or allies of the

Tokugawa clan The is a Japanese dynasty that was formerly a powerful '' daimyō'' family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji) through the Matsudaira clan. The early history of this cl ...

, in contrast with the '' tozama'' or outsider clans.Alpert, Georges. (1888)
''Ancien Japon'', p. 70.
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Makino clan genealogy

The ''fudai'' Makino clan originated in 16th century Mikawa Province. Their elevation in status by

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dates from 1588. They claim descent from Takechiuchi no Sukune, Papinot, Edmond. (2003
''Nobiliare du Japon'' -- Makino, p. 29
Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon.'' (in French/German). who was a legendary Statesman and lover of the legendary

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.Guth, Christine

''Numen.'' 33:1, 178–179 (June 1986). Tadakiyo was part of the senior branch of the Makino which was established at

Tako Domain was a minor feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo-period Japan, located in Shimōsa Province (the northern portion of Chiba Prefecture Japan. It was centered on what is now part of the town of Tako in Katori District. It was ruled ...

Kōzuke Province was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Gunma Prefecture. Kōzuke bordered by Echigo, Shinano, Musashi and Shimotsuke Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was . Under the '' Engishiki'' classification system, Kōzuke was r ...

in 1590. In 1616, their holdings were moved to Nagamine Domain in

Echigo Province was an old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan. It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kōzuke, Shinano, and Etchū Provinces. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Echigo''" in . It corresponds today to Niig ...

. From 1618 through 1868, this branch of the Makino remained at Nagaoka Domain (74,000 ''koku'') in Echigo Province. Tadakiyo was the 9th-generation head of the main line of the Makino. The head of this clan line was ennobled as a "Viscount" in the

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Tokugawa official

Tadakiyo served as the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Tokugawa-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia ...

's thirty-second Kyoto ''shoshidai'' in the period spanning January 13, 1799, through August 19, 1801.

Notes

References

* Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888)
''Ancien Japon.''
Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha. * Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999)
''Japan's Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867.''
Münster: Tagenbuch. * Papinot, Edmond. (1906) ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon.'' Tokyo: Librarie Sansaish
..Click link for digitized 1906 ''Nobiliaire du japon'' (2003)
* Sasaki Suguru. (2002). ''Boshin sensō: haisha no Meiji ishin.'' Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha.

External links

* National Archives of Japa
... Nagaoka Castle (1644)
, - {{Authority control Daimyo Rōjū Makino clan Kyoto Shoshidai 1760 births 1831 deaths People from Nagaoka Domain