is a Japanese

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retrieved 2013-5-17.

History

The Tsuchiya clan descend from Taira no Yoshifumi. Tsuchiya Soen, his descendant in the 6th generation settled at Tsuchiya (Sagami Province) and took the name of the place. Tsuchiya Masatsugu (1545-1575) was a retainer of the Takeda clan and died at the Battle of Nagashino (1575). His brother Masatsune 1556-1582) followed Takeda Katsuyori and died at the Battle of Tenmokuzan (1582). According to "Kansei Choshu Shokafu" (Genealogies of Vassals in Edo Bakufu), Tsuchiya Tadanao (1582-1612), son of Masatsune, at the fall of the Takeda clan, escaped with his mother, and went to Kiyonji Temple in Suruga Province. Later he was summoned by

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to become a retainer. According to "Kanei shoka keizuden" and "Kansei-fu" , he was brought up by Acha no tsubone, a concubine of Ieyasu, and served Tokugawa Hidetada as a page. In 1591, he was given 3,000 koku in Sagami, and in 1602 he became the

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of the

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in Kazusa Province and was given 20,000 koku. The clan moved in 1669 to

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and again in 1681 to

Tanaka Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Suruga Province in what is now modern-day Fujieda, Shizuoka. It was centered around Tanaka Castle.

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. The clan settled from 1688 through 1868 at Tsuchiura (95,000 ''

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''). After the

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, the head of the clan was made a

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in the ''kazoku'' peerage system.

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* Tsuchiya Tadanao (1585–1612)

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