Tsugaru Tsuguakira
Tsugaru Tsuguakira | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1840 Japan |
| Died | 1916 Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation(s) | Daimyō, Imperial Governor, Banker, Poet |
| Known for | Final daimyō of Hirosaki Domain, modernization of military forces, participation in Boshin War, waka poetry |
Count was the final and twelfth daimyō governing the Hirosaki Domain situated in northern Mutsu Province, Honshū, Japan, corresponding to present-day Aomori Prefecture. His official court titles began with Tosa-no-kami, later elevated to Etchū-no-kami and Jiju. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, he held the Court rank of Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade.
Biography
Tsugaru Tsuguakira, born as the fourth son of Hosokawa Narimori, who was the eighth daimyō of Uto Domain, a subsidiary domain of Kumamoto Domain in Kyushu, entered the Tsugaru family through marriage to the fourth daughter of Tsugaru Yukitsugu, the eleventh daimyō of Hirosaki. He was officially adopted by Yukitsugu as his successor in 1857.
Assuming the position of daimyō on February 7, 1859, Tsuguakira continued efforts to modernize and westernize the military forces of the domain. Amidst the upheavals of the Bakumatsu period, the Tsugaru clan initially allied with imperial loyalists from the Satchō Alliance and launched an offensive against the neighboring Shōnai Domain. Although briefly aligning with the pro-Tokugawa coalition known as the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei, they soon reverted allegiance to imperial forces, actively engaging in significant conflicts such as those at Noheji and Hakodate during the Boshin War.
After the Meiji Restoration and subsequent dissolution of the han system, Tsuguakira was appointed Imperial Governor of Hirosaki from 1869 until 1871, when Hirosaki was merged into Aomori Prefecture. Following this transition, he moved to Tokyo. With the creation of the kazoku peerage system in 1882, he received the noble rank of hakushaku (count). In his later years, he held a directorial role at a financial institution and gained recognition for his contributions to waka poetry. Tsugaru Tsuguakira passed away in Tokyo in 1916; his final resting place is located at Yanaka Cemetery in Taitō-ku.
Having no biological son, Tsugaru Tsuguakira adopted (1872–1919), a younger son of court noble Konoe Tadafusa, to continue his lineage.
See also
References
- Koyasu Nobushige (1880). Buke kazoku meiyoden 武家家族名誉伝 Volume 1. Tokyo: Koyasu Nobushige.
- Kurotaki, Jūjirō (1984). Tsugaru-han no hanzai to keibatsu 津軽藩の犯罪と刑罰. Hirosaki: Hoppō shinsha.
- Narita, Suegorō (1975). Tsugaru Tamenobu: shidan 津軽為信: 史談. Aomori: Tōō Nippōsha.
- Tsugaru Tsuguakira Kō Den kankōkai (1976). Tsugaru Tsuguakira kō-den 津輕承昭公傳. Tokyo: Rekishi Toshosha
External links
- Photographs of Tsuguakira and his spouse
- "Hirosaki-jō" (Accessed February 17, 2008)
- "Tsugaru-han" on Edo 300 HTML
Notes
- This article's content is largely based on its equivalent entry in Japanese Wikipedia.