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, who ruled

Tsuchiura Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Hitachi Province (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Tsuchiura Castle in what is now the city of Tsuchiura, Ibaraki. It was ruled for much of ...

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and was subsequently transferred to

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. His courtesy title was ''Tangō no Kami''.

Biography

Nishio Tadateru was the eldest son of Nishio Tadanaga, daimyō of Tsuchiura Domain, but was born in Suruga Province. In 1620, at the age of seven, he became head of the

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and daimyō of Tsuchura on his father's death. In 1621, he attended to ''

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during his pilgrimage to the

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, and were permitted to expand the size of his castle. On February 11, 1649, his holdings were increased in size by an additional 5,000 ''

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'' when he was transferred to Tanaka Domain in Suruga. Tadateru was married to a daughter of Takenaka Shigeyoshi, ''daimyō'' of

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. He died in 1654, and was succeeded by his son Tadanari. His grave is at the temple of Myōgen-ji in present-day

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References

* Japanese Wikipedia entry on Tadateru
Graves of the Nishio family
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