was a 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 ...

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, and the 11th ''

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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 ...

in the

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of northern Japan, and the 27th hereditary chieftain of the

Date clan The is a Japanese samurai kin group.Edmond Papinot, 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 fam ...

Biography

Nariyoshi was the grandson of

Date Yoshimura was a mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the fifth ''daimyō'' of Sendai Domain in northern Japan, and the 21st hereditary chieftain of the Date clan. The longest-serving of any of the ''daimyō'' of Sendai Domain, Yoshimura placed the domain ...

, the 5th ''daimyō'' of Sendai and he was the 4th son of Tamura Murasuke, the ''daimyō'' of Ichinoseki Domain. He was born in

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, and his childhood name was Kichigorō (吉五郎). Shortly after his birth, his father retired, and turned the domain over to

Tamura Muneaki was a '' tozama'' feudal domain of Edo period Japan It was located in Mutsu Province, in northern Honshū. The domain was centered at Ichinoseki jin'ya, located in the center of what is now the city of Ichinoseki in Iwate Prefecture. History ...

. In 1812, he underwent his ''

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'' ceremony and took the name of Tamura Akiyoshi. Tamura Muneaki declined to adopt him as heir as expected, and although the young Akiyoshi was sent to Ichinoseki, he was not given any official title or duties. A turning point came in 1819, when he was called to

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. The sudden death of Date Narimune without an heir placed Sendai Domain in a very precarious position vis-a-vis the

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. Date Narimune, and his predecessor,

Date Chikamune was a mid-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the ninth ''daimyō'' of Sendai Domain in northern Japan, and the 25th hereditary chieftain of the Date clan. Biography Chikamune was the eldest son of Date Narimura. His childhood name was Masachiyo ...

, had both died without heirs and the shogunate had taken extraordinary measures to ensure the continuation of the Date line; however, a third instance in such a short period of time placed the domain in danger of

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. Akiyoshi was betrothed to Narimune's three-year-old daughter, Shiba-hime, and took the name of Date Muneyoshi. He was proclaimed 11th Date ''daimyō'' of Sendai, and was received in formal audience by ''

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Tokugawa Ienari Tokugawa Ienari (, 18 November 1773 – 22 March 1841) was the eleventh and longest-serving ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan who held office from 1787 to 1837.Hall, John Whitney ''et al.'' (1991) ''Early Modern Japan'', p. 21./ref> ...

three months later. During this audience, he was granted a ''

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'' from Ienari's name to become Date Nariyoshi. He was granted the Court rank of Junior Fourth, Lower Grade and

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of ''Mutsu-no-kami''. In 1826, he formally wed Shiba-hime, but died less than two years later in Edo. His death reopened the succession issue within Sendai Domain, as his son and heir was still a child.

Family

* Father: Tamura Murasuke * Mother: Wakisaka Yasuchika's daughter * Wife: Shibahime * Concubine: Omiyo no Kata ** 1st son: Date Kaimaru, disinherited ** 1st daughter: Masahime (1824–1861), married

Date Narikuni was an late-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 12th ''daimyō'' of Sendai Domain in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, and the 28th hereditary chieftain of the Date clan. Biography Narikuni was the son of Date Munemitsu of the Tome-Date cla ...

, daimyo of Sendai Domain ** 2nd daughter: Yukihime, married Date Kunizane of the ''hatamoto'' Watari-Date clan *Concubine: Tsuneko no Kata **

Date Yoshikuni was a late-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 13th ''daimyō'' of Sendai Domain in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, the 29th hereditary chieftain of the Date clan. He is known primarily for his role as commander-in-chief of the Ōuetsu Re ...

, 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"
(3 November 2007) {{DEFAULTSORT:Date, Nariyoshi 1798 births 1828 deaths Tozama daimyo Date clan People of the Edo period