Inaba Masanari

Inaba Masanari
1st Daimyō of Mōka
In office
1627–1628
Preceded byHori Chikayoshi
Succeeded byInaba Masakatsu
Personal details
Born1571
DiedOctober 14, 1628 (age 57)
NationalityJapanese
SpouseLady Kasuga
In this Japanese name, the surname is Inaba.

Inaba Masanari (稲葉 正成, 1571 – October 14, 1628), also known as Inaba Masashige[1] and sometimes known as Mino-no-kami,[2] was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period. He served the Oda, Toyotomi, and Tokugawa clans, and became a daimyō in the early Edo period.

Masanari was the husband of Kasuga-no-Tsubone,[3] who bore him three sons: Masakatsu, Masasada, and Masatoshi.[4] For some reason, Masanari divorced her; and she then became wet-nurse to Tokugawa Hidetada's eldest son. Though Masanari and Kasuga divorced, they still maintained a good relationship as parents to their children.[5] One of Masanari's grandsons, Inaba Masayasu (1640–1684), is primarily remembered as the enigmatic wakadoshiyori assassin of tairō Hotta Masatoshi.[6]

In the Edo period, the Inaba were identified as one of the fudai or insider daimyō clans which were hereditary vassals or allies of the Tokugawa clan,[7] as opposed to the tozama or outsider clans.

  1. ^ 稲葉正成 at Reichsarchiv.jp; retrieved 2013-6-7.
  2. ^ Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice. (1998). The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, p. 71.
  3. ^ (in Japanese) "Inaba-shi" on Harimaya.com
  4. ^ "[Unknown title]", Bulletin of the South Sea Association. Vol. 2 (July 1939).
  5. ^ Murdock, James. (1996) A History of Japan, p. 706.
  6. ^ Brinkley, Frank et al. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 598; Bodart-Bailey, p. 98.
  7. ^ Meyer, Eva-Maria. "Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit." Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine Universität Tübingen (in German).