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 mid-

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, who ruled

Yokosuka Domain was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Tōtōmi Province. It was centered at Yokosuka Castle in what is now the Matsuo district of the city of Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Kakegawa in Shizuoka Prefect ...

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. Nishio Tadayuki was the second son of the third daimyō of Yokosuka Domain, Nishio Tadamitsu. As his elder brother Tadamasa died in October 1765, Tadayuki was chosen to succeed his father. In 1766 he received court rank Junior 5th rank, lower grade (''ju go i no ge'' 従五位下) and ''Yamashiro no Kami''. In 1782, he succeeded his newly retired father as daimyō of the

, also receiving his father's courtesy title of ''Oki no Kami''. Tadayuki entered the administration of the

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in 1784, holding the concurrent offices of ''

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'' and ''

Jisha-bugyō was a position within the system for the administration of religion that existed from the Muromachi period to the Edo period in Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were always ''fudai daimyōs'', the lowest-ranking of the shogunate office ...

''. There was a brief period where he was barred from service (after the burning of his

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residence later that year), but he was soon back to work, and even retained his position despite the fact that his father-in-law was

Tanuma Okitsugu (September 11, 1719 – August 25, 1788) was a chamberlain (''sobashū'') and a senior counselor ('' rōjū'') to the ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Ieharu of the Tokugawa Shogunate, in the Edo period of Japan. Tanuma and his son exercised tremendo ...

. During his tenure, Tadayuki assisted in the

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Sagara Domain was a Japanese Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period, located in Tōtōmi Province. The domain was centered in what is now the Sagara, Shizuoka, Sagara district of Makinohara, Shizuoka, Makinohara city, Shizuoka P ...

. In the administration of Yokosuka Domain, Tadayuki improved the financial situation by encouraging

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cultivation and research into

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. He also had a great personal interest in the arts and in ''

rangaku ''Rangaku'' (Kyūjitai: , ), and by extension , is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through its contacts with the Dutch enclave of Dejima, which allowed Japan to keep abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the countr ...

'', and employed many prominent figures in this field, including Takamori Kankō. Tadayuki died in

Yokosuka Castle is a Japanese castle located in Ōsuka, Shizuoka, Ōsuka in the southern part of what is now the city of Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Japan. It was built in the Sengoku period and was the capital of Yokosuka Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo per ...

, on May 9, 1801. As his biological son had died young, his adopted heir

Nishio Tadayoshi was a daimyō in mid-Edo period Japan, who ruled Yokosuka Domain in Tōtōmi Province. Nishio Tadayoshi was the fourth son of Makino Sadanaga, daimyō of Kasama Domain in Hitachi Province. He became the adopted heir of the fourth daimyō of Y ...

succeeded him. His grave is located at the Nishio clan temple of Ryumin-ji in modern

Kakegawa, Shizuoka is a Cities of Japan, city in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 117,925 in 45,519 households. The total area of the city is . Geography Kakegawa is in the coastal plains of southwest Shizuoka Prefect ...

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References

Nishio family genealogy
* Japanese Wiki article on Tadayuki {{DEFAULTSORT:Nishio, Tadayuki Nishio clan 1749 births 1801 deaths Fudai daimyo Nobility from Tokyo