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 ...

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, and the 8th ''

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'' of

Sendai Domain The , also known as the , was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871. The Sendai Domain was based at Aoba Castle in Mutsu Province, in the modern city of Sendai, located in the Tōhoku region of t ...

in the

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of northern Japan, and the 24th hereditary chieftain of the

Date clan The is a Japanese samurai kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Date", ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 5 retrieved 2013-5-5. History The Date family was founded ...

Biography

Narimura was the second son of

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by a concubine. His childhood name was Shikisaburo (式三郎) later Shojiro (総次郎) later become Date Tokimura, and he became heir on the death of his elder brother in 1783. At the time of his ''

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'' ceremony in 1787, he received a ''

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'' from ''

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and became Date Narimura. He also received court rank of Junior Fourth, Lower Grade and the

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s of ''Mimasaka-no-kami'' and ''Jijū'' (

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) at that time. In 1790, he became ''daimyō'' on the retirement of his father, and his title was changed to ''Mutsu-no-kami'' and ''Sakonoe-shōshō''. In 1793, he married the daughter of the '' kampaku''

Takatsukasa Sukehira was a Japanese court noble of the Edo period (1603–1868). He held the regent position of kampaku from 1787-1791. Biography Sukehira was the adopted son of Takatsukasa Mototeru. He was a grandson of Emperor Higashiyama and thus a paternal ...

, who was the elder sister of

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. The year 1796 was not a good year for Sendai Domain. Narimura's wife died due to complications in childbirth of his eldest son. Shortly afterwards he received word of his father's death at the clan residence in

Edo Edo ( ja, , , "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. Edo, formerly a ''jōkamachi'' (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the ''de facto'' capital of ...

. On his way back to Sendai after the funeral, he fell ill near Shirakawa, and died shortly after returning home to

Aoba Castle 260px, Layout of Aoba Castle is a Japanese castle located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Aoba Castle was home to the Date clan, ''daimyō'' of Sendai Domain. The castle was also known as or as . In 2003, the c ...

at the age of 23. As his heir Date Chikamune was still an infant and his second son (by a concubine)

Date Narimune } was an mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 10th ''daimyō'' of Sendai Domain in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, and the 26th hereditary chieftain of the Date clan. Biography Narimune was the posthumous second son of Date Narimura; hi ...

was still in his mother's womb, the domain took over a week to inform the authorities of Narimura's death, so that they could ensure that Narimune was posthumously recognised as Narimura's official son, and second in the line-of-succession.

Family

* Father:

* Mother: Ojo no Kata * Wife: Takatsukasa Nobuko (1775–1796) ** 1st son: Date Chikamune, daimyo of Sendai Domain * Concubine: Onobu no Kata (1779–1800) ** 2nd son:

, daimyo of Sendai Domain

References

* Papinot, Edmond. (1948). ''Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan''. New York: Overbeck Co.

External links

Sendai Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"
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