was the 7th daimyō

Daimyo

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of Hirosaki Domain

Hirosaki Domain

The ' was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in northern Mutsu Province . It was ruled by the Tsugaru clan...

 in northern Mutsu Province

Mutsu Province

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, Honshū

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, Japan

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 (modern-day Aomori Prefecture

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). His courtesy title was Etchū-no-kami.

Biography

Tsugaru Nobuyasu was born as the eldest son of Tsugaru Nobuaki, the 6th daimyō of Hirosaki Domain. His father died when Nobuyasu was only four years old, all power remained in the hands of the senior clan retainers until he came of age.

Nobuyasu inherited a domain stricken by extensive famine caused by repeated natural disasters, with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions by Mount Iwaki

Mount Iwaki

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, inclement weather, and repeated crop failures. The domain was 350,000 gold ryō in debt, and Nobuyasu’s senior retainers were corrupt and contributed to the domain’s problems. It was discovered that three senior retainers had conspired with merchants in Edo

Edo

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 to sell of all of the domain’s rice reserves for their personal profit, leaving the domain helpless in face of the Great Tenmei Famine

Tenmei

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 of 1781, during which time thousands of people within the domain starved to death. Beset by problems on all sides, Nobuyasu died suddenly in 1784, leaving the domain and its problems to his only son, Nobuakira.

Nobuyasu had one son and three daughters. His grave is at the clan temple of Juyo-in in Taitō-ku

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, Tokyo

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 as well as the Tsugaru clan temple of Chōshō-ji in Hirosaki

Hirosaki, Aomori

is a city located in southwest Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is a castle town and was the Tsugaru clan ruled the 100,000 koku tozama han Hirosaki Domain from Hirosaki Castle during the Edo period. The city is currently a regional commercial center and the largest producer of apples in Japan...

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