Nitobe Tsutō (新渡戸 傳, 1793 – 1871)
[Iwate Historical Biography Committee.]
岩手県姓氏歴史人物大辞典
1998, p. 289. was a samurai of Morioka of the late
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 ...
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Life
Nitobe Tsutō was born on December 9, 1793 at Hanamaki Castle.[Kokusho Kankōkai, 1981. pp. 103–108] His another name was Nueta (縫太).[ His father was Koretami(維民).][ His posthumous name was Tsunezumi(常澄).][ His Go (pen name) was Taiso(太素).][
Nanbu Toshitaka's reforms were that there was no death penalty, and even those who committed serious crimes were in prison.][ One day he met a castle keeper.][ At that time, he told this castle keeper that he was ready to go on a business trip at any time, and listened loudly where thousands of peasants were in trouble.][ There was no prospect of being told, and when he continued to push up even if he talked about one thing, he told his opinion that if he cut off two people who moved forward, only a few people would be dispatched.][ He was never ordered to travel, perhaps because his opinion did not fit the reform plan of the then '']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 ...
'' Nanbu Toshitaka.[
After Toshitaka's death in 1820, his father thought it was time and filed a white paper with the Morioka clan, along with several samurais, including Tsutō.][ However, the white paper was not accepted, and his father was taken up on a semi-land and expelled to Tanabu(now part of the city of Mutsu).][ When his father was exiled from Morioka Domain, Tsutō also lived with his father.][ At that time, he decided to make a living as a merchant, went to Morioka to learn commerce, went back to his father's home and started commerce, and went up to Edo at the request of a timber dealer.][ In 1852, he applied to Morioka Domain for the development of a new rice field in Sanbongi.][ In 1855, he was appointed Sanbongi Shinden Goyogakari (new rice field affairs official in Sanbongi).][ In 1869, he assumed the post of Daisanji (second to a governor) of the Shichinohe Domain.][ He died on November 9, 1871.][
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Family
Depending upon the source, Nitobe Tsutō and the entire Nitobe clan are descendants of either the Minamoto clan or the Taira clan (specifically, 's branch).[Iwate Historical Biography Committee.]
岩手県姓氏歴史人物大辞典
1998, pp. 971-974.Shimotsuke Province
was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Tochigi Prefecture.Louis-Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''SHimotsuke''" in . Shimotsuke was bordered by Kōzuke Province, Kōzuke, Hitachi Province, ...
.[ Tsunehide continued inheritance with Tsunechika (常親), Yasutane (泰胤), Tsunesato (常邑), Tsunesada (常貞)、Sadatsuna (貞綱), Sadahiro (貞広), Hiromori (広盛), Tsunemochi (常望) Tsunetada (常忠), Tsunenobu (常信), and Nobumori (信盛) from generation to generation.][ Sadatsuna lived in Nitobe and died in 1309.]Nanboku-chō period
The Nanboku-chō period (南北朝時代, ''Nanboku-chō jidai'', "North and South court period", also known as the Northern and Southern Courts period), spanning from 1336 to 1392, was a period that occurred during the formative years of the Mur ...
, Sadahiro and his son Hiromori both fought on the Southern Court
The were a set of four emperors (Emperor Go-Daigo and his line) whose claims to sovereignty during the Nanboku-chō period spanning from 1336 through 1392 were usurped by the Northern Court. This period ended with the Southern Court definitively ...
side.[ Sadahiro died in 1337.][ Hiromori died in Shinano in 1351 during the war.][ Tsunetada and his son Tsunenobu both served ]Ashikaga Mitsukane
(1378–1409) was a Nanboku-chō period warrior, and the Kamakura-fu's third Kantō kubō, (''Shōgun'' Deputy). Being the eldest son, he succeeded his father Ujimitsu in 1398 at the age of 21 when he died during an epidemic. Like his father, M ...
and Mochiuji of the Kantō kubō
(also called , , or ) was a title equivalent to ''shōgun'' assumed by Ashikaga Motouji after his nomination to ''Kantō kanrei'', or deputy shōgun for the Kamakura-fu, in 1349.Kokushi Daijiten (1983:542) Motouji transferred his original title t ...
.[ After Tsunenobu's death, his son Nobumori returned to Nitobe.][ Nobumori's daughter was Moriyori(盛頼)'s wife.][ As for the inheritor, Nobumori welcomed the clan, Motoyoshi Narizumi(元良成澄)'s child, Moriyori (盛頼) as an adopted child, and became Nitobe for the first time.][
Moriyori continued inheritance with Yoritane (頼胤), Yoshitane (良胤), Tanemochi (胤望), Yorinaga (頼長), Taneshige (胤重), and Tokiharu (春治) from generation to generation.][ Tokiharu's third son Tsunetsuna (常綱, popular name was Densuke(伝助)) split up and became a Hanamaki Kyūjin (upper class retainers).][ Before Tsunetsuna became Kyūjin, Tsunetsuna served ]Nanbu Masanao Nanbu may refer to:
Places
* Nanbu, Aomori, Japan
* Nanbu, Tottori, Japan
* Nanbu, Yamanashi, Japan
* Nanbu County, Sichuan Province, China
* Nanbu Domain, a feudal domain in northeastern Japan
People with the surname
*, Japanese samurai and ''da ...
.[ After Tsunetsuna's death, Tsunetsuna's second son Sadaaki (貞紹, popular name was Denzō(伝蔵)) inherited.][ After Sadaaki, Yoshiaki (義紹, popular names were Kyūsuke(九助), Densuke(伝助), and Heizo(平蔵)) inherited.][ After Yoshiaki's death, Yoshiaki's nephew (Yoshiaki's brother Tsunekatsu(常佸)'s son) Tsunemochi (常以) inherited.][ After Tsunemochi's death, Tsunemochi's brother Tsunetoki (常言, popular name was Denzō(伝蔵)) inherited.][ After Tsunetoki, Tsuneyoshi (常贇, popular name was Densuke(伝助)) inherited.][
Tsuneyoshi was Tsutō's grandfather.][ Tsuneyoshi married Tsutō's grandmother Oei (おゑい, daughter of Ōta Hidenori (太田秀典) of Hanamaki).][ Tsutō's father was Koretami (維民, Inheritance to the reign of ]Nanbu Toshitaka
was a mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 10th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 36th hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His courtesy title was ''Daizen-no-daifu'', and his Court rank was Junior 4th Rank, Lowe ...
.).[ Nitobe Tsutō's sons were Tsunenori (常訓, Jūjirō) and ]Ōta Tokitoshi Ōta Tokitoshi (太田 時敏, 16 January 1839 – 20 January 1915) was a samurai of Morioka and a Sanbongi Shinden Goyogakari (new rice field affairs official in Sanbongi) of the late Edo period. He was Nitobe Inazō's uncle. He was named Renhachir ...
.[ Tsutō's grandsons were Shichirō (七郎) and Inanosuke (稲之助, Inazō).][
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People from Iwate Prefecture
1793 births
1871 deaths