was a ''

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'' of

Odawara Domain 250px, Odawara Castle, Headquarters of the Odawara Domain was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located primarily in western Sagami Province (modern-day Kanagawa Prefecture). It was centered on Odawara Castle in what is now the city of Odaw ...

Sagami Province was a province of Japan located in what is today the central and western Kanagawa Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Kanagawa''" at . Sagami Province bordered the provinces of Izu, Musashi, and Suruga. It had access to the Pac ...

(modern-day

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) in early-

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Japan, until 1686 when he was transferred to Takada Domain in

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. Later he was transferred again, to

Sakura Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Shimōsa Province (modern-day Chiba Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Sakura Castle in what is now the city of Sakura, Chiba. It was ruled for most of its hi ...

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.Meyer, Eva-Maria
"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".
Universität Tübingen (in German). His courtesy title was '' Mino no Kami''.

Biography

Inaba Masamichi was the eldest son of the previous daimyō of Odawara, Inaba Masanori. Due to the influence of the ''

Tairō ''Tairō'' (, "great elder") was a high-ranking official position in the Tokugawa shogunate government of Japan, roughly comparable to the office of prime minister. The ''tairō'' presided over the governing ''rōjū'' council in the event of an ...

'' Sakai Tadakiyo, he rose rapidly through the hierarchy of the

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. He was appointed concurrently as a '' Sōshaban'' (Master of Ceremonies) and '' Jisha-bugyō'' on April 9, 1681, and received another concurrent appointment as ''

Kyoto Shoshidai The was an important administrative and political office in the Tokugawa shogunate. The office was the personal representative of the military dictators Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Kyoto, the seat of the Japanese Emperor, and was ado ...

'' on December 24 of the same year. On the retirement of his father in 1683, he became head of the Inaba clan, and inherited his father’s position as ''

'' of Odawara (102,000 ''koku''). His cousin, Inaba Masayasu, served as a '' wakadoshiyori'' in Edo. Masayasu visited Kyoto as part of a formal inspection in 1683.Tucker, John. (1998)
''Itō Jinsai's "Gomō Jigi" and the Philosophical Definition of Early Modern Japan'', p. 4 n3.
/ref> However, in 1685, Masamichi was ordered to resign his position as ''Kyoto Shoshidai'' and to transfer from Odawara to Takada Domain in

(103,000 ''koku''). On January 11, 1701, Masamichi became a ''

Rōjū The , usually translated as ''Elder'', was one of the highest-ranking government posts under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The term refers either to individual Elders, or to the Council of Elders as a whole; under the first two '' sh� ...

'' under ''

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Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was the fifth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa dynasty of Japan. He was the younger brother of Tokugawa Ietsuna, as well as the son of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the grandson of Tokugawa Hidetada, and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu.Nussbaum, Louis-F ...

, and in June of that year was transferred to

(103,000 ''koku''). On August 7, 1707, he retired from public life, turning his domain over to his son Inaba Masatomo. He died in 1716, and his grave is at the temple of Yōgen-ji in

Bunkyō is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area, Bunkyō is a residential and educational center. Beginning in the Meiji period, literati like Natsume Sōseki, as well as scholars and politicians have lived ...

, Tokyo.

Notes

References

* Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888)
''Ancien Japon''.
Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha. * Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). ''Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867''. Münster: Tagenbuch. * Papinot, Edmond. (1906) ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon''. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaish
..Click link for digitized 1906 ''Nobiliaire du japon'' (2003)
* Sasaki, Suguru. (2002). ''Boshin sensō: haisha no Meiji ishin''. Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha. * Tucker, John Allen. (1998)
''Itō Jinsai's "Gomō Jigi" and the Philosophical Definition of Early Modern Japan''.
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