was the 7th ''

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'' of Mutsuura Domain in southern

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(modern-day Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama,

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) and 10th head of the

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

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Yonekura Masanaga was born as the 3rd son of

Kutsuki Masatsuna , also known as Kutsuki Oki-no kami Minamoto-no Masatsuna, was a hereditary Japanese ''daimyō'' of Oki and Ōmi with holdings in Tanba and Fukuchiyama. His warrior clan was amongst the hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa family (the '' fudai'' ...

, ''daimyō'' of

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. In 1812, on the death of the 6th ''daimyō'' of Mutsuura Domain (Yonekura Masanori), he was adopted into the

. In June 1812, he was presented before ''

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and confirmed as the ''daimyō'' of Mutsuura. As ''daimyō'', Yonekura Masanaga was assigned to several ceremonial postings as guard of various gates to

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. On June 24, 1860, he turned his titles over to his 6th son, Yonekura Masakoto, and went into retirement. He died three years later on May 7, 1863, at the age of 71. His grave is at the temple of Hase-dera in

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. Masanaga had six sons and two daughters his official wife, a daughter of

Manabe Akihiro was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003). It was based at Sabae ''Jin'ya'' in Echizen Province in what ...

, ''daimyō'' of

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, as well as 2 sons and 2 daughters through a concubine, the daughter of Itakura Katsunaga, ''daimyō'' of

Fukushima Domain was a '' fudai'' feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in southern Mutsu Province. It was centered on Fukushima Castle in what is now the city of Fukushima in Fukushima Prefecture. For the majority of its histo ...

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"Mutsuura-han" on ''Edo 300 HTML''
(17 February 2008) * ''The content of much of this article was derived from that of the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Yonekura Masanaga Fudai daimyo 1793 births Masanaga 1863 deaths People from Yokohama

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