(1587 – April 7, 1670) was a Japanese ''

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 the early

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 ...

, who ruled the Kaijū Domain. He was the nephew of

Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku period. He is regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. Nobunaga was head of the very powerful Oda clan, and launched a war against other ''daimyō'' to unify ...

. Nagamasa was born in 1587, the fourth son of Nobunaga's younger brother Nagamasu.Oda Nagamasa on "World Nobility"
(14 July 2008). In his early years he became a page to

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow ...

, and received a stipend of 3,000 ''

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 ...

''. In 1605, he received junior 5th rank, lower grade (''ju-goi no ge'') and the title of '' Tango no kami'', though his title later changed to ''Saemonza''. Following the

Siege of Osaka The was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages (winter campaign and summer campaign), and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege ...

in 1615, Oda Nagamasu divided up his landholdings in

Yamato was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan. Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan. Japanese his ...

and

Settsu Province was a province of Japan, which today comprises the southeastern part of Hyōgo Prefecture and the northern part of Osaka Prefecture. It was also referred to as or . Osaka and Osaka Castle were the main center of the province. Most of Settsu's ...

s, granting Nagamasa territory worth 10,000 ''

''. Nagamasa set up his residence at Yamaguchi village in

Yamato Province was a province of Japan, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day Nara Prefecture in Honshū. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2005). "Yamato" in . It was also called . Yamato consists of two characters, 大 "great", and 和 " Wa". At first, the ...

, and soon after moved it to Kaijū village, from which he took the domain's name (later changed yet again, to Shibamura). At the same time, his younger brother Hisanaga received 10,000 ''koku'', and founded the

Yanagimoto Domain The was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. Its headquarters were located in what is now Tenri, Nara. List of lords *Oda clan, 1615-1871 ( Tozama; 10,000 koku The is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. 1 koku is equivalent to 10 or a ...

. Nagamasa ruled Kaijū until his retirement in late 1659, when he yielded headship to his eldest son Nagasada. After retirement, Nagamasa took the

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. He died at age 84, on April 7, 1670.

Family

*Father:

Oda Nagamasu was a Japanese daimyō and a brother of Oda Nobunaga who lived from the late Sengoku period through the early Edo period. Also known as or , the Tokyo neighborhood Yūrakuchō is named for him. Nagamasu converted to Christianity in 1588 ...

(1548–1622) *Brother: Oda Hisanaga

References

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