was a Japanese ''

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'' of the early

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.Meyer, Eva-Maria
"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".
University of Tüebingen (in German). Shigenori's daimyō family claimed descent from the Shibukawa branch of the

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. The Itakura identified its clan origins in Mikawa Province, and the progeny of Katsuhige (1542–1624), including the descendants of his second son Shigemasa (1588–1638), were known as the elder branch of the clan. Katsuhige was Shingeori's grandfather; and Shigenori was the eldest son of Shigemasa. Papinot, Edmond. (2003)
''Nobiliare du Japon'' -- Itakura, pp. 16–17
Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; retrieved 2012-11-7. Shigenori's youth was spent in Mikawa province. In 1615, Shigenori's father was granted yearly revenues from Mikawa in honor of his warrior conduct during the

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Career of shogunate service

Shigenori was made governor of

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and then ''

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''. Murdoch, James. (1996)
''A History of Japan,'' p. 172
His served for a time as rōjū (1665–1668), and then he left Edo for Kyoto. Toby, Ronald P. (1991)
''State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu,'' p. 124 n7
He served as the shōgun's representative in the capital as the fourth Kyoto ''shoshidai'' in the period which spanned July 19, 1668 through April 3, 1670. He returned to Edo for a second term as rōjū (1670–1673). His service to the

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was serially rewarded in Fukōzu and Mikawa-Nakajima. In 1672, he was made daimyō of Karasuyama in

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. His grandfather was the second ''shoshidai'' and his uncle was the third ''shoshidai''. Shigenori followed their examples by joining his father as part of the shogunate's army during the

Shimabara Rebellion The , also known as the or , was an uprising that occurred in the Shimabara Domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan from 17 December 1637 to 15 April 1638. Matsukura Katsuie, the '' daimyō'' of the Shimabara Domain, enforced unpopular p ...

Notes

References

* Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). ''Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867''. Münster: Tagenbuch. * Murdoch, James. (1996)
''A History of Japan.''
London:

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. * Papinot, Edmond. (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. * Toby, Ronald P. (1991)
''State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu.''
Stanford:

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. * Japanese Wikipedia article on Shigenori (26 Oct. 2007) , - , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Itakura, Shigenori Daimyo Kyoto Shoshidai Itakura clan Rōjū 1617 births 1673 deaths