was the 13th '' daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan and the 39th hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan.

Biography

Toshitomo was born as , the eldest son of the 12th ''daimyō'' of Morioka,

Nanbu Toshitada was a late Edo period Japanese samurai and the 12th '' daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 38th hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His courtesy title was ''Shinano-no-kami'' (later ''Sashōshō''), and his Court ...

. In 1835, he was received in formal audience by '' Shōgun'' Tokugawa Ienari and was subsequently conferred with the

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of ''Kai-no-kami'', and Court rank of Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade, and his name was changed to . After widespread peasant revolts occurred in Morioka Domain in 1836 and 1847, largely in protest to economic policies and food shortages, Toshitada went into voluntary retirement, and Toshitomo nominally became the new ''daimyō''. However, Toshitomo was ordered to remain at the domain 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 ...

instead of making the usual ''

sankin-kōtai ''Sankin-kōtai'' ( ja, 参覲交代/参覲交替, now commonly written as ja, 参勤交代/参勤交替, lit=alternate attendance, label=none) was a policy of the Tokugawa shogunate during most of the Edo period of Japanese history.Jansen, M ...

'' journey to Morioka, and the domain continued to be administered by the '' karō'' and other influential samurai who answered only to his father. After around a year, sentiment against Toshitada had died down somewhat in Morioka, so Toshitomo was forced into retirement, and replaced by his more pliable younger brother

Nanbu Toshihisa was a Bakumatsu period Japanese samurai, and the 14th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 40th hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. Biography Nanbu Toshihisa was the 3rd son of Nanbu Toshitada, the 12th ''daimyō'' o ...

. Toshitomo was very angry with this situation, especially as the policies which had resulted in widespread revolts were continued, and the samurai of the domain split into factions supporting either the son or the father. Relations between the two were so bad that at one point a retainer of Toshitada attempted to kill Toshitomo by poisoning. In 1849, he changed his name to . As Toshitomo had predicted, another widespread revolt occurred in the Nanbu domains against Toshitada in 1853. The situation was so dire that the Tokugawa shogunate was forced to intervene directly. The '' rōjū'' Abe Masahiro placed Toshitada under

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, where he died a year later. However, Toshitomo was also found culpable of inciting the insurrection, and was confined to a single room within this own house. The same year, he changed his name once again, this time to Nanbu Toshitomo. Toshitomo remained in Edo through the remainder of the Bakumatsu period, and only visited Morioka as a private citizen after the Meiji Restoration.

References

* Papinot, Edmond. (1948). ''Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan''. New York: Overbeck Co. *三百藩藩主人名事典 (1986)

External links

Morioka Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"
(3 November 2007)

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nanbu, Toshitomo 1824 births 1888 deaths Tozama daimyo Nanbu clan People of Edo-period Japan