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Andō Nobunari was the 6th hereditary chieftain of the Andō clan and
daimyō of
Kanō Domain. He served in a number of posts within the
Tokugawa shogunate. His
courtesy title was
Tsushima-no-kami, and
Jijū, and his
Court rank was Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade. Nobunari was the younger son of Andō Nobutada and became
daimyō in 1755 at age 12 when his father was sentenced to
house arrest over misgovernment of his domain. However, the following year, the Andō clan was ordered to relocate to Iwakitaira, with a reduction in their
kokudaka from 65,000 to 50,000
koku. Nobunari subsequently served as
jisha-bugyō (1781),
wakadoshiyori (1784) and
rōjū (1793), so that by 1793 he had increased his
kokudaka back to 67,000
koku. He is also noted for establishing a
han school in the domain, teaching
kanji, the
Four Books and Five Classics,
Japanese language,
calligraphy,
military science and
rangaku. His wife was the daughter of Matsudaira Takachika of
Tanagura Domain. He died in 1810.
Andō Nobukiyo was the 7th hereditary chieftain of the Andō clan and 2nd Andō
daimyō of Iwakitaira. His courtesy title was
Tsushima-no-kami, and his court rank was Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade. Nobukiyo was the younger son of Andō Nobunari. He became
daimyō in 1810 on the death of his father, but died less than two years later in 1812 at the age of 45. His wife was the daughter of Kuze Hiroyasu of
Sekiyado Domain. As his only surviving son, Nobuyori, was still an infant, the domain went to Nobuyoshi, a grandson of Nobunari and thus Nobuyoshi's uncle. His grave is at the temple of Seigan-in, in what is now
Suginami, Tokyo.
Andō Nobuyoshi was eldest son of Andō Nobuatsu, the eldest son of Andō Nobunari. On the death of Nobukiyo, he became the 8th hereditary chieftain of the Andō clan and 3rd Andō
daimyō of Iwakitaira, as Nobukiyo's heir Nobuyori was still an infant. In 1816, he served as a
sōshaban in the shogunal administration. In 1829, he adopted Nobuyori as his heir to restore the family lineage, and retired the same year. He died in 1843. His wife was a daughter of
Tsugaru Yasuchika of
Tsugaru Domain. His grave is at the temple of Seigan-in, in what is now Suginami, Tokyo.
Andō Nobuyori was eldest son of Andō Nobukiyo. He became the 9th hereditary chieftain of the Andō clan and 4th Andō
daimyō of Iwakitaira on the retirement of his uncle Nobuyoshi in 1829. In 1831, he served as a
sōshaban in the shogunal administration. From 1833 to 1836, the
Tenpō famine struck the domain, killing over 3000 people and ruining the domain's finances. Nobuyori died in 1847 at the age of 46. His wife was a daughter of Matsudaira Nobuakira of
Yoshida Domain. His grave is at the temple of Seigan-in, in what is now Suginami, Tokyo.
Andō Nobumasa was eldest son of Andō Nobuyori and 10th hereditary chieftain of the Andō clan. He was known most of his life as
Andō Nobuyuki, taking the name of Nobumasa only after he became a
rōjū. He became daimyō in 1847 on the death of his father. In 1848, he was promoted to the post of
sōshaban. In 1858, he rose to the post of
jisha-bugyō, and subsequently was appointed a
wakadoshiyori under the
Tairō Ii Naosuke. In 1860 he was appointed a
rōjū, and placed in charge of foreign affairs. In 1860, Ii Naosuke was assassinated in the
Sakuradamon Incident and Nobumasa became a leading councilor of state together with
Kuze Hirochika. He was a supporter of the
kobu-gattai policy to strengthen relations between the
imperial court and the shogunate and was instrumental in arranging for
Kazunomiya, the younger sister of
Emperor Kōmei, to marry
Shōgun Tokugawa Iemochi. Andō himself was the target of an assassination attempt in 1862 by six former
Mito Domain samurai outside the Sakashita Gate of
Edo Castle. Soon afterwards he was forced from office due to accusations of improper conduct in arranging for an heir to succeed Ii Naosuke and due to allegations that he had accepted bribes from American consul
Townsend Harris. The
kokudaka of Iwakitaira Domain was also reduced by 20,000
koku in 1863. However, his son and heir
Andō Nobutami was still underage, so he continued to rule the domain from behind-the-scenes. Andō Nobutami died in 1863 and was replaced by an adopted heir,
Andō Nobutake. In 1868, during the
Boshin War, Nobumasa took the domain into the
Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei. The domain was overrun and
Iwakitaira Castle was burned during the
Battle of Iwakitaira, and the victorious
Meiji government placed Nobumasa under permanent
house arrest in 1868. He was released in 1869 and died in 1871.
Andō Nobutami was eldest son of Andō Nobumasa. He became the 11th hereditary chieftain of the Andō clan and 6th Andō
daimyō of Iwakitaira on the forced retirement of Nobumasa in 1862 in what is known as the "Bunkyu Purge". In addition, the
kokudaka of the domain was reduced to 30,000 koku. As Nobutami was only three years old at the time, Nobumasa continued to rule behind-the-scenes. He died two years later at the age of five. His grave is at the temple of Seigan-in, in what is now Suginami, Tokyo.
Andō Nobutake was third son of Naitō Masayoshi of
Iwamurada Domain in
Shinano Province. He was adopted a posthumous heir to Nobutami as his mother was a daughter of Andō Nobuyori. He became the 12th hereditary chieftain of the Andō clan and 7th (and final) Andō
daimyō of Iwakitaira in 1863. During the
Boshin War, Andō Nobumasa supported the pro-Tokugawa
Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei; however, Nobutake supported the pro-Meiji forces and visited
Kyoto, where he secretly pledged fealty to the
Meiji government. Nevertheless,
Iwakitaira Castle was destroyed during the
Battle of Iwakitaira, and much to his disappointment, he was reassigned by the new government to a newly created 34,000
koku holding in former
Nanbu territory in
Rikuchū Province. He was able to recover Iwakitaira in August 1869 only after paying the government a massive 70,000
ryō fine. Less than two years later, with the
abolition of the han system, he was forced to surrender Iwakitaira again, and relocate to
Tokyo. He retired in 1872, turning the chieftainship of the clan to Nobutami's younger brother, Nobumori, and later worked as a professor at the
Gakushūin Peer's School. He died in 1908. == See also ==