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was a Japanese ''
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 ...
'' of the early
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 ...
. He was the son of
Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; 31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616) was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Gr ...
's daughter
Kamehime Kamehime (, 27 July 1560 – 1 August 1625) was the eldest daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, with his first wife, Lady Tsukiyama. She was the wife of Okudaira Nobumasa. She is primaril ...
with her husband,
Okudaira Nobumasa , also called Okudaira Sadamasa (奥平 貞昌), was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku and early Edo periods. Nobumasa's family considered their origins to have been associated with Mikawa Province. The clan was descended through the Akam ...
. Due to this family connection, he was allowed to use the Matsudaira surname. He was briefly adopted by Suganuma Sadamitsu; however, this adoption lasted for only five years. Upon Nobumasa's death, Tadamasa succeeded him as lord of the
Kanō Domain file:加納城石垣.JPG, 270px, Remnants of the walls of Kanō Castle was a ''fudai daimyō, fudai'' Han (Japan), feudal domain of Edo period Japan. The domain was centered at Kanō Castle, located in what is now part of the city of Gifu, Gifu, ...
.


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"Kanō-han" on ''Edo 300 HTML''
(22 February 2008) , - 1580 births 1614 deaths Daimyo Okudaira clan Okudaira-Matsudaira clan {{daimyo-stub