was the 9th and final '' daimyō'' of Hachinohe Domain in northern

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(modern-day Aomori Prefecture). Before the Meiji Restoration, his

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was ''Tōtōmi-no-kami'', and his Court rank was Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade.

Biography

Nanbu Nobuyuki was born as the 14th son of Shimazu Shigehide, ''daimyō'' of

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. In 1838, Hachinohe Domain made it known that it was looking for an heir to Nanbu Naomasa. Approaches were made to

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, Fukuoka Domain and

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, but with the small ''

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'' of Hachinohe Domain, there was no interest; however, in Satsuma Domain there was a surfeit of male heirs and the domain was looking to both expand its influence and to cut its expenses. In 1838, his adoption was official recognised in a formal audience with Shōgun

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and he became daimyō of Hachinohe Domain in 1842 on the death of Nanbu Nobumasa. During the Bakumatsu period, Nanbu Nobuyuki sided with the Tokugawa shogunate against the Satchō Alliance, and during the

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, took his domain into the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei. However, his allegiance to the Tokugawa clan over his own relatives in

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was somewhat uncertain, and he maintained a secret diplomacy with pro-imperial Kubota Domain, which enabled the domain to survive the Meiji Restoration without loss of status. He was appointed domain governor under the new Meiji government on June 22, 1868. With the

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in 1871 he retired from public life. He died in 1872. His son, Nanbu Sakinobu (1858–1876) relocated from Hachinohe to Tokyo, but returned to Hachinohe in 1876 due to ill health. He sold the former Hachinohe Domain's Tokyo residence to Princess Kazunomiya Chikako for the sum of 15,000 Yen in an attempt to rectify the clan's failing finances. His son, Nanbu Toshinari (1872–1950) received the

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title of viscount under the '' kazoku'' peerage system in 1884.

References

* ''The content of much of this article was derived from that of the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia.'' * Jurita, Shunjiro (1884). ''Who's who in Japan''. (Tokyo:n.p.), p. 391. {{DEFAULTSORT:Nambu, Nobuyuki Tozama daimyo Shimazu clan 1858 births 1872 deaths People of the Boshin War Nanbu clan 19th-century Japanese people