was a ''

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.Meyer, Eva-Maria
"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".
Universität Tübingen (in German). Masanobu's family was descended from Masanari, a younger son of Konō Michitaka, ''daimyō'' from

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who had been a vassal of Oda Nobunaga and later

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.Papinot, Jacques. (2003)
''Nobiliare du Japon'' – Inaba, p. 15
Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''. (in French/German). Thunberg's trip from Dejima to Edo passed through Yamashiro, and his account reports that Masanobu was ''daimyō'' of Yodo . In the Edo period, the Inaba were identified as one of the '' fudai'' or insider ''daimyō'' clans which were hereditary vassals or allies of the

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, in contrast with the '' tozama'' or outsider clans.Appert, Georges. (1888)
''Ancien Japon'', p. 67.
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Inaba clan genealogy

The ''fudai''

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originated in

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. They claim descent from Kōno Michitaka (d. 1374), who claimed descent from

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(736–805)."Inaba" at Ancestry.com
citing Hank, Patrick, ed. (2003)
''Dictionary of American Family Names''.
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. Masanari's descendants resided successively at

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(105,000 ''koku'') in

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from 1632 through 1685; at

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in Echigo Province from 1685 through 1701; at

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from 1701 through 1723. Masanobu's heirs and others who were also descendants of Inaba Masanari settled at

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(115,000 ''koku'') in

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from 1723 through 1868. The head of this clan line was ennobled as a "Viscount" in the Meiji period.

Tokugawa official

Masanobu was the

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's Kyoto ''shoshidai'' in the period spanning March 4, 1804 through October 5, 1806.

Notes

References

* Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888)
''Ancien Japon''.
Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha. * Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). ''Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867''. Münster: Tagenbuch. * Hank, Patrick, ed. (2003)
''Dictionary of American Family Names''.
New York:

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. (cloth) * Papinot, Jacques Edmund Joseph. (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. * Screech, Timon. (2005).
''Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun's Realm, 1775–1796''.
London: RoutledgeCurzon. (cloth) {{DEFAULTSORT:Inaba, Masanobu Kyoto Shoshidai Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate Inaba clan 1749 births 1806 deaths Fudai daimyo