was the 4th ''

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in southern

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) and 7th head of the

Yonekura clan The was a cadet branch of the Takeda clan of Kai Province, some members of whom rose to positions of importance within the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate in mid-Edo period Japan. According to the genealogy of the Takeda clan, Yonekura ...

. His courtesy title was '' Nagato-no-kami.''

Biography

Yonekura Masakata was born as the second son of

Yonekura Masaharu was the 3rd ''daimyō'' of Mutsuura Domain in southern Musashi Province, Honshū, Japan (modern-day Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture) and 6th head of the Yonekura clan. His courtesy title was ''Kokushi (officials), Tango-no-kami.'' Bio ...

, the third ''daimyō'' of Mutsuura Domain. He was appointed heir in 1777 and succeeded his father in December 1785. As ''daimyō'', he was assigned to several ceremonial postings as guard of various gates to

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. However, in 1793 he resigned from his posts due to illness, but retained the position of ''daimyō''. He died on August 5, 1798, at the age of 40. His grave is at the temple of Hase-dera in

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, Tokyo. Masakata was married to the daughter of Yanagisawa Nobutoki, ''daimyō'' of Koriyama Domain, by whom he had two daughters.

References

"Mutsuura-han" on ''Edo 300 HTML''
* ''The content of much of this article was derived from that of the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Yonekura Masakata Fudai daimyo 1759 births Masakata 1798 deaths People from Kanazawa, Yokohama People from Yokohama