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"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".
Universität Tübingen (in German). Masanao's daimyō family was descended from Minamoto Yasuuji (Seiwa-Genji). The descendants of Tsuchiya (1585–1612) lived successively at Kururi in

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; after 1669 at Tsuchiura in

Hitachi Province was an old provinces of Japan, old province of Japan in the area of Ibaraki Prefecture.Louis Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Hitachi fudoki''" in . It was sometimes called . Hitachi Province bordered on Shimōsa Province, S ...

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; and then, after 1688, again at Tsuchiura in Hitachi. Papinot, Edmond. (2003)
''Nobiliare du Japon'' – Tsuchiya
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's Kyoto ''shoshidai'' in the period spanning October 19, 1686, through November 17, 1687.

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* Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). ''Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867''. Münster: Tagenbuch. * Papinot, Edmund. (1906) ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon.'' Tokyo: Librarie Sansaish
..Click link for digitized 1906 ''Nobiliaire du japon'' (2003)
* Sasaki, Suguru. (2002). ''Boshin sensō: haisha no Meiji ishin.'' Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha. Daimyo Kyoto Shoshidai Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate 1641 births 1722 deaths {{daimyo-stub