was a mid-

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 ...

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...

, and the 9th ''

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

Morioka Domain 300px, Ruins of Morioka Castle was a '' tozama'' feudal domain of Edo period Japan. It was ruled throughout its history by the Nanbu clan. It was called during the early part of its history. It was located in northern Mutsu Province, Honshū, ...

in northern Japan. He was the 35th hereditary chieftain of the

Nanbu clan The was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled most of northeastern Honshū in the Tōhoku region of Japan for over 700 years, from the Kamakura period through the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The Nanbu claimed descent from the Seiwa Genji of Kai Pr ...

. His

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was ''Shuri-no-taifu'', (later ''Daizen-no-taifu'') and his Court rank was Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade. Toshikatsu was the sixth son of

Nanbu Toshimi was a mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 7th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 33rd hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His courtesy title was ''Shuri-no-daifu'', (later ''Daizen-no-daifu'') and his Court ran ...

, the 7th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain, but was initially adopted by a 3000 ''

koku The is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. 1 koku is equivalent to 10 or approximately , or about . It converts, in turn, to 100 shō and 1000 gō. One ''gō'' is the volume of the "rice cup", the plastic measuring cup that is supplied ...

'' ''

hatamoto A was a high ranking samurai in the direct service of the Tokugawa shogunate of feudal Japan. While all three of the shogunates in Japanese history had official retainers, in the two preceding ones, they were referred to as ''gokenin.'' However ...

'' branch of the clan founded by a son of

Nanbu Toshimoto was a mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 6th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 32nd hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His courtesy title was ''Bingo-no-kami'', (later ''Daizen-no-suke'') and his Court rank w ...

, he was adopted as heir and was received in formal audience by ''

shōgun , officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamakur ...

Tokugawa Ieharu Tokugawa Ieharu (徳川家治) (June 20, 1737 – September 17, 1786) was the tenth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, who held office from 1760 to 1786. His childhood name was Takechiyo (竹千代). Ieharu died in 1786 and given t ...

on 4 April 1770, and became head of his adopted family on 22 August 1773. However, as the eldest (and only) son of the 8th ''daimyō'',

Nanbu Toshikatsu was a mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 8th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 34th hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His courtesy title was ''Shinano-no-kami'', (later ''Daizen-no-daifu'') and his Court ran ...

had been dispossessed he was recalled on 16 December 1774 to become Toshikatsu’s adopted heir, at which time the ''hatamoto'' branch was abolished. On 22 December 1774 he was again received in audience by Tokugawa Ieharu, and he received the formal courtesy title of ''Shuri-no-taifu'' and Junior 5th court rank. He became ''daimyō'' on the death of his adopted father on 22 April 1781 and advanced to the courtesy title of ''Daizen-no-taifu''. However, he died three years later on 5 May 1784 at the age of 34, having made little impact on the domain during his tenure, and leaving an infant son as his heir.

References

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

References

External links

Morioka Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nanbu, Toshimasa 1751 births 1784 deaths Tozama daimyo Nanbu clan People of Edo-period Japan