Matsudaira Katahiro
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was a Japanese daimyo
of the late Edo period
, who ruled the Aizu domain. He succeeded family headship at age 4, and died at age 20. With his death, the direct line of descent from Tokugawa Hidetada
came to an end.
Daimyo
is a generic term referring to the powerful territorial lords in pre-modern Japan who ruled most of the country from their vast, hereditary land holdings...
of the late Edo period
Edo period
The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
, who ruled the Aizu domain. He succeeded family headship at age 4, and died at age 20. With his death, the direct line of descent from Tokugawa Hidetada
Tokugawa Hidetada
was the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623. He was the third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.-Early life :...
came to an end.