Nabeshima Naotada

In this Japanese name, the family name is Nabeshima.
Nabeshima Naotada
鍋島直紀
Lord of Hasunoike
In office
1845–1869
Preceded by Nabeshima Naotomo
Succeeded by none
Personal details
Born (1826-06-30)June 30, 1826
Died February 23, 1891(1891-02-23) (aged 64)
Nationality Japanese

Viscount Nabeshima Naotada (鍋島 直紀, June 30, 1826 – February 23, 1891) was the 9th and final daimyō of Hasunoike Domain in Hizen Province, Kyūshū, Japan (modern-day Saga Prefecture). Before the Meiji Restoration, his courtesy titles were title of Kai no Kami and junior 5th, lower grade court rank (ju go i no ge 従五位下).[1]

Biography

Naotada was the eldest son of Nabeshima Naotomo, the 8th daimyō of Hasunoike. His mother was the daughter of Nijō Harutaka. He attended the domain academy as a child, and on the retirement of his father on July 28, 1848, he became the 9th daimyō of Hasunoike Domain.

In 1854, he was ordered by the Tokugawa Shogunate to take responsibility of the defenses of the Nagasaki area against possible incursions by foreign ships, and was forced to raise and train troops, and build coastal defense fortifications. This greatly strained the already precarious finances of the domain, which could only be resolved by placing the domain into great debt. In 1864, he was ordered to participate in the First Chōshū expedition, and contributed 1000 soldiers to the Tokugawa army. By order of his retired father, he also dispatched troops to Kyoto to assist the Tokugawa forces in keeping public order.

During the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration, he switched sides to the Satchō Alliance and dispatched Hasunoike’s forces under the command of his younger brother, Ishii Tadami, against the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei at Akita in support of Emperor Meiji

In 1869, he was appointed "domain governor" as the title of daimyō was abolished, and with the abolition of the han system and subsequent nerger of Hasunoike into the new Saga Prefecture in 1871, he moved to Tokyo. In 1884, he became a viscount (shishaku) under the kazoku peerage. He died at the clan’s Azabu residence in 1891, and his grave is at the Azabu Cemetery in Tokyo.

Preceded by
Nabeshima Naotomo
Daimyō of Hasunoike
1845-1869
Succeeded by
none (domain abolished)

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