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Andō Clan
The is a Japanese samurai kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)">DF 6 of 80">"Andō," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 2 [PDF 6 of 80/nowiki> retrieved 2013-5-5. History The clan claims descent from Abe no Hirafu and Abe no Nakamaro. During the Kamakura period, the clan served as the Presiding Governor of Ezo, Presiding Governors of Ezo. The clan served the Tokugawa clan during Edo Period. Their first recorded family head, Andō Naotsugu was eldest son of Andō Haruyoshi and grandson of Andō Ieshige, retainer of Matsudaira Hirotada (father of Tokugawa Ieyasu). Head family (ruled Kii-Tanabe domain) * Andō Naotsugu (1555–1635) * Andō Naoharu (1607–1636) * Andō Yoshikado (1636–1654) * Andō Naokiyo (1633–1692) * Andō Naona (1680–1708) * Andō Nobutake (1688–1717) * Andō Nobusada (1717–1725) * Andō Katsuyoshi (1715–1730) * Andō Tsuguyuki (1716–1765) * Andō Hironaga (1747–17 ...
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Iwakidaira Domain
was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan.,Jansen, Marius B. (1994)''Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration,'' p. 401 based at Iwakitaira Castle in southern Mutsu Province in what is now part of modern-day Iwaki, Fukushima. Its southern neighbor was the Mito Domain which was ruled by the Mito Tokugawa clan, and its northern neighbor was the Nakamura Domain which was ruled by the Sōma clan. The han school was the ''Shiseidō'' (施政堂), founded by the Andō clan. The most famous culture created in the Iwakitaira Domain is the ''Jangara Nembutsu">DF 6 of 80/nowiki> retrieved 2013-5-5. .... The most famous culture created in the Iwakitaira Domain is the ''Jangara Nembutsu'' dance. History The southern Hamadōri region of ancient Iwaki Province was ruled by the Iwaki clan from the Heian period through the end of the Sengoku period. However, the clan sided with the western alliance loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori during the Battle of Sekigahara and ...
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Andō Nobumasa
was a late-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 5th ''daimyō'' of Iwakitaira Domain in the Tōhoku region of Japan, and the 10th hereditary chieftain of the Andō clan. He was the eldest son of Andō Nobuyori and his mother was a daughter of Matsudaira Nobuakira of Yoshida Domain. His childhood names were Kinnoshin and Kinnosuke and he was known most of his life as Andō Nobuyuki, taking the name of Nobumasa only after he became a '' rōjū.'' Biography Nobumasa was born at the domain's Edo residence, and was received in formal audience by Shōgun Tokugawa Ienari in 1835. He became daimyō in 1847 on the death of his father. In 1848, he was promoted to the post of '' sōshaban'' within the shogunal administration. In 1858, he rose to the post of '' jisha-bugyō'', and subsequently was appointed a '' wakadoshiyori'' under the '' Tairō'' Ii Naosuke. In 1860 he was appointed a '' rōjū,'' and placed in charge of foreign affairs. Ii Naosuke was assassinated in the Sakurad ...
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Iwakitaira Domain
was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan.,Jansen, Marius B. (1994)''Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration,'' p. 401 based at Iwakitaira Castle in southern Mutsu Province in what is now part of modern-day Iwaki, Fukushima. Its southern neighbor was the Mito Domain which was ruled by the Mito Tokugawa clan, and its northern neighbor was the Sōma Domain, Nakamura Domain which was ruled by the Sōma clan. The han school was the ''Shiseidō'' (施政堂), founded by the Andō clan. The most famous culture created in the Iwakitaira Domain is the ''Jangara Nembutsu'' dance. History The southern Hamadōri region of ancient Iwaki Province was ruled by the Iwaki clan from the Heian period through the end of the Sengoku period. However, the clan sided with the western alliance loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori during the Battle of Sekigahara and was dispossessed by Tokugawa Ieyasu, who banished the clan to the minor Kameda Domain in what is now the c ...
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Kanō Domain
file:加納城石垣.JPG, 270px, Remnants of the walls of Kanō Castle was a ''fudai daimyō, fudai'' Han (Japan), feudal domain of Edo period Japan. The domain was centered at Kanō Castle, located in what is now part of the city of Gifu, Gifu, Gifu in Gifu Prefecture. History Before the Battle of Sekigahara, the central Mino Province was ruled by Oda Hidenobu, Oda Nobunaga's grandson, from his base at Gifu Castle. However, as Hidenobu sided with Ishida Mitsunari at the Battle of Sekigahara, his territory was confiscated by Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1601, Ieyasu granted the area to his son-in-law Okudaira Nobumasa. Okudaira Nobumasa was allowed to build Kanō Castle with materials from the dismantled Gifu Castle. This was the birth of the Kanō Domain. Nobumasa's placement at Kanō was meant to act as a check against the potentially hostile lords of western Japan, who might have wanted to march eastward against Ieyasu. Nobumasa retired in 1602, handing over the position of ''daimyō'' ...
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Bitchū-Matsuyama Domain
was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now western Okayama Prefecture. It controlled most of central Bitchū Province and was centered around Bitchū Matsuyama Castle. It was ruled in its latter history by a branch of the Itakura clan. Following the Meiji restoration, it was briefly renamed . It was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 and is now part of Okayama Prefecture. History After the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, the area of central Bitchū Province was retained as ''tenryō'' territory, administed by the Kobori clan Although Kobori Masatsugu and his son Kobori Masakazu had a nominal '' kokudaka'' of 14,460 ''koku'', their official portion was that of ''daikan,'' or magistrate, rather than ''daimyō''. Kobori Masakazu is better known as the famed Japanese garden designer, Kobori Enshū. In 1617, Ikeda Nagayuki was transferred from Tottori Domain and assigned 60,000 ''koku''; however, his son Nagatsune die ...
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Takasaki Domain
file:Takasaki Castle 20101001-05.jpg, 270px, Surviving yagura of Takasaki Castle, headquarters of Takasaki Domain was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Kōzuke Province (modern-day Gunma Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Takasaki Castle in what is now part of the city of Takasaki, Gunma. Takasaki was ruled through most of its history by a junior branch of the Matsudaira clan. History During the late Heian period, the area around what is now Takasaki was controlled by the Wada clan. During the Muromachi period, the Wada came under the service of the Uesugi clan, who held the post of ''Kantō kanrei''; however in 1561, Wada Narishige, incensed over the appointment of Uesugi Kenshin to the post, defected to the Takeda clan, Takeda. His son, Wada Nobunari, in turn came into the service of the Late Hōjō clan, Odawara Hōjō. During the Siege of Odawara (1590), Battle of Odawara in 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi dispatched an army ...
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