was a mid-

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They ...

, and the 8th ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominall ...

'' of

Morioka Domain 300px, Ruins of Morioka Castle was a '' tozama'' feudal domain of Edo period Japan. It was ruled throughout its history by the Nanbu clan. It was called during the early part of its history. It was located in northern Mutsu Province, Honshū, ...

in northern Japan. He was the 34th hereditary chieftain of the

Nanbu clan The was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled most of northeastern Honshū in the Tōhoku region of Japan for over 700 years, from the Kamakura period through the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The Nanbu claimed descent from the Seiwa Genji of Kai ...

. His

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was ''Shinano-no-kami'', (later ''Daizen-no-daifu'') and his Court rank was Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade. Toshikatsu was the eldest son of

Nanbu Toshimoto was a mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 6th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 32nd hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His courtesy title was ''Bingo-no-kami'', (later ''Daizen-no-suke'') and his Court rank w ...

, the 6th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain. He was adopted by his uncle

Nanbu Toshimi was a mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 7th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 33rd hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His courtesy title was ''Shuri-no-daifu'', (later ''Daizen-no-daifu'') and his Court ra ...

on 21 October 1738, and was received in formal audience by ''

shōgun , officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamaku ...

Tokugawa Yoshimune was the eighth '' shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1716 until his abdication in 1745. He was the son of Tokugawa Mitsusada, the grandson of Tokugawa Yorinobu, and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Lineage Yoshi ...

on 1 November of the same year. On 16 December he received the formal courtesy title of ''Shinano-no-kami'' and Junior 5th court rank. He became ''daimyō'' on the death of his uncle on 25 May 1725, and advanced to Junior 4th court rank on 16 December 1766. His tenure was a difficult time for Morioka, which continued to suffer from repeated crop failures and famines. Some 60,000 people were estimated to have died in the famine of 1756, and with the domain facing bankruptcy, Toshikatsu was forced to appeal for assistance from the central government. Toshikatsu’s eldest son Toshinori was disinherited in 1774 after fighting with shogunate officials, and later went into the priesthood. He adopted

Nanbu Toshimasa was a mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 9th ''daimyō'' of Morioka Domain in northern Japan. He was the 35th hereditary chieftain of the Nanbu clan. His courtesy title was ''Shuri-no-taifu'', (later ''Daizen-no-taifu'') and his Court rank ...

, the ''

hatamoto A was a high ranking samurai in the direct service of the Tokugawa shogunate of feudal Japan. While all three of the shogunates in Japanese history had official retainers, in the two preceding ones, they were referred to as '' gokenin.'' Howev ...

'' sixth son of Nanbu Toshimi as his heir and died in 1780.

References

* Papinot, Edmond. (1948). ''Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan''. New York: Overbeck Co. * *三百藩藩主人名事典 (1986)

External links

Morioka Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nanbu, Toshikatsu 1724 births 1780 deaths Tozama daimyo Nanbu clan People of Edo-period Japan