was the second ''

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'' of the '' tozama''

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of Takabatake, in Dewa Province, northern

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. He was later transferred to become first ''daimyō'' of

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in the same province. Oda Nobukazu was a direct descendant of the famed

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, through Nobunaga's son

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Biography

Nobukazu was born as the ninth son of Oda Nobuchika and the daughter of

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. His childhood name was ''Hyaku-tarō''. His wife was the third daughter of Ōmura Sumiyasu, ''daimyō'' of Ōmura Domain in

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, and his

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was the fourth daughter of Toda Takanaka of

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. He had three sons and three daughters. On November 1, 1811, he had an audience with the ''

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'' Tokugawa Ienari. In 1818, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the lordship of Takabatake, and received the ceremonial court title of ''Wakasa-no-kami'' and lower 5th Court rank in 1820. In 1826, after the castle at Takabatake had burned down for a second time, he was ordered by the '' bakufu'' to shift its location to Tendō, a largely undeveloped forested and mountainous region within the territory of the same domain, where he ruled as first lord of Tendō from 1830–1936. His ceremonial court title was changed to ''Echizen-no-kami''. His grave is at the

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of Korin-ji in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.

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