daimyō
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and no ...
'' during mid-
Edo period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
.
Biography
Aoyama Tadashige was the third son of
Aoyama Munetoshi
was a ''daimyō'' during early-Edo period Japan. His courtesy title was '' Inaba-no-kami.''
Biography
Aoyama Munetoshi was the eldest son of Aoyama Tadatoshi, the ''daimyō'' of Iwatsuki Domain (Musashi Province) and later Ōtaki Domain (Kazusa ...
, the daimyō of
Komoro Domain
was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It is located in Shinano Province, Honshū. The domain was centered at Komoro Castle, located in what is now part of the city of Komoro in Nagano Prefecture.Komoro,
Shinano Province
or is an old province of Japan that is now Nagano Prefecture.
Shinano bordered Echigo, Etchū, Hida, Kai, Kōzuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Tōtōmi Provinces. The ancient capital was located near modern-day Matsumoto, whi ...
. On August 5, 1683, he was adopted by his sickly elder brother
Aoyama Tadao
was a daimyō during early-Edo period Japan. His courtesy title was '' Izumi-no-kami.''
Biography
Aoyama Tadao was the second son of Aoyama Munetoshi, the daimyō of Hamamatsu Domain (Tōtōmi Province), and was born in Komoro, Shinano Provinc ...
, at the time daimyō of
Hamamatsu Domain
was a Japanese Han (Japan), domain of the Edo period, located in Tōtōmi Province. It was centered on what is now Hamamatsu Castle in what is now the city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Hamamatsu was the residence of Tokugawa Ieyasu for m ...
(
Tōtōmi Province
was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today western Shizuoka Prefecture.Louis-Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Tōtōmi''" in . Tōtōmi bordered on Mikawa Province, Mikawa, Suruga Province, S ...
). He became 5th head of the
Aoyama clan
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and daimyō of Hamamatsu on his brother's death in 1685.
On September 7, 1702, Tadashige was transferred to Kameyama Domain in Tanba Province (50,000 ''koku''), where his descendants remained for the next three generations. In September 1714, his courtesy title was changed to ''Inaba-no-kami''. On June 18, 1722, he turned his titles over to his fourth son, Aoyama Toshiharu. He subsequently took the tonsure, and died three months later at age 69.
His grave is at the temple of Tōkai-ji in
Shinagawa, Tokyo
is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward in the Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The Ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The Ward is home to ten embassies.
, the Ward had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population d ...