was a mid- Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 5th '' daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 31st hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His

courtesy title A courtesy title is a title that does not have legal significance but rather is used through custom or courtesy, particularly, in the context of nobility, the titles used by children of members of the nobility (cf. substantive title). In some co ...

was ''Bingo-no-kami'', and his Court rank was Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade. Nobuoki was the 3rd son of

Nanbu Yukinobu was an early to mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 4th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 30th hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His courtesy title was ''Shinano-no-kami'', and his Court rank was Junior Fifth ...

, the 4th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain. He was born in the domain's Azabu residence in

Edo Edo ( ja, , , "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. Edo, formerly a ''jōkamachi'' (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the ''de facto'' capital of ...

. As his older brother died young, he became heir on 1 May 1701, and was received in formal audience by '' shōgun'' Tokugawa Yoshimune on 15 May. On 25 July, he wed the daughter of Mōri Tsunamoto, ''daimyō'' of

Chōfu Domain The was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Nagato Province (modern-day Yamaguchi Prefecture). List of lords *Mōri clan ( Tozama; 60,000->50,000->38,000->47,000->50,000 koku The is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. 1 kok ...

and on 18 December received the formal

of ''Bingo-no-kami''. He became ''daimyō'' on the death of his father in November 1702. On 15 April 1703, he entered Morioka Domain for the first time. At this time the domain was suffering from crop failure and immediately after he took office the

1703 Genroku earthquake The occurred at 02:00 local time on December 31 (17:00 December 30 UTC). The epicenter was near Edo, the forerunner of present-day Tokyo, in the southern part of the Kantō region, Japan. An estimated 2,300 people were killed by the shaking and ...

destroyed the domain's Edo residences. As a result, the domain's finances were plunged further into arrears. During his short tenure, he was unable to overturn the strong influence of Confucianism introduced by his father into the domain's administration, and died on 31 December 1707 at a relatively young age. On his death, his half-brother Nanbu Toshimoto, was adopted as his heir. However, Nobuoki's widow subsequently gave birth to a posthumous son, Nanbu Toshimi, who was later adopted by Nanbu Tomomoto, thus maintaining the direct line of succession.

References

* Papinot, Edmond. (1948). ''Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan''. New York: Overbeck Co.

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External links

Morioka Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"
(3 November 2007) {{DEFAULTSORT:Nanbu, Nobuoki 1678 births 1707 deaths Tozama daimyo Nanbu clan People of Edo-period Japan