was a ''

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 ...

'' in early 19th-century

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during the

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 ...

.Meyer, Eva-Maria
"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit".
Universität Tübingen (in German). Masanobu's family was descended from Masanari, a younger son of Konō Michitaka, ''daimyō'' from

Mino province was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today southern Gifu Prefecture. Mino was bordered by Ōmi to the west, Echizen and Hida to the north, Shinano to the east, and Ise, Mikawa, and Owari to the south. Its abbreviated fo ...

who had been a vassal of

Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. He was the and regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. He is sometimes referred as the "Demon Daimyō" and "Demo ...

and later

Toyotomi Hideyoshi , otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: ...

.Papinot, Jacques. (2003)
''Nobiliare du Japon'' – Inaba, p. 15
Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''. (in French/German). Thunberg's trip from Dejima to Edo passed through Yamashiro, and his account reports that Masanobu was ''daimyō'' of Yodo . In the Edo period, the Inaba were identified as one of the '' fudai'' or insider ''daimyō'' clans which were hereditary vassals or allies of the

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, in contrast with the '' tozama'' or outsider clans.Appert, Georges. (1888)
''Ancien Japon'', p. 67.
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Inaba clan genealogy

The ''fudai'' Inaba clan originated in

Mino Province was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today southern Gifu Prefecture. Mino was bordered by Ōmi to the west, Echizen and Hida to the north, Shinano to the east, and Ise, Mikawa, and Owari to the south. Its abbreviated fo ...

. They claim descent from Kōno Michitaka (d. 1374), who claimed descent from Emperor Kanmu (736–805)."Inaba" at Ancestry.com
citing Hank, Patrick, ed. (2003)
''Dictionary of American Family Names''.
/ref> Masanobu was part of the cadet branch of the Inaba which was created in 1588. This branch is descended from Inaba Masanari (d. 1628), who fought in the armies of Nobunaga and then Hideyoshi. In 1619, Masanari was granted the '' han'' of Itoigawa (25,000 ''koku'') in

Echigo Province was an old provinces of Japan, old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan. It bordered on Uzen Province, Uzen, Iwashiro Province, Iwashiro, Kōzuke Province, Kōzuke, Shinano Province, Shinano, and Etchū Province, ...

; then, in 1627, his holding was transferred to Mōka Domain (65,000 ''koku'') in Shimotsuke Province. Masanari's descendants resided successively at

Odawara Domain file:Odawara 2006-02-21 c.jpg, 250px, Odawara Castle, Headquarters of the Odawara Domain was a Japanese Han (Japan), domain of the Edo period, located primarily in western Sagami Province (modern-day Kanagawa Prefecture). It was centered on Odawa ...

(105,000 ''koku'') in

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

from 1632 through 1685; at Takata Domain in

from 1685 through 1701; at Sakura Domain in

Shimōsa Province was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture as well as the bordering parts of Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo (the parts that used to be located east of the lower reaches of the old Tone River prior to the ...

from 1701 through 1723. Masanobu's heirs and others who were also descendants of Inaba Masanari settled at Yodo Domain (115,000 ''koku'') in

Yamashiro Province was a province of Japan, located in Kinai. It overlaps the southern part of modern Kyoto Prefecture on Honshū. Aliases include , the rare , and . It is classified as an upper province in the '' Engishiki''. Yamashiro Province included Kyoto it ...

from 1723 through 1868. The head of this clan line was ennobled as a "Viscount" in the Meiji period.

Tokugawa official

Masanobu was the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars ...

's Kyoto ''shoshidai'' in the period spanning March 4, 1804 through October 5, 1806.

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. * Hank, Patrick, ed. (2003)
''Dictionary of American Family Names''.
New York:

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. (cloth) * Papinot, Jacques Edmund Joseph. (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. * Screech, Timon. (2005).
''Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun's Realm, 1775–1796''.
London: RoutledgeCurzon. (cloth) {{DEFAULTSORT:Inaba, Masanobu Kyoto Shoshidai Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate Inaba clan 1749 births 1806 deaths Fudai daimyo