Background
Naotada was the eldest son of Nabeshima Naotomo, the 8th daimyō of Hasunoike. His mother was the daughter of Nijō Harutaka.
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Nabeshima Naotada
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Education
He attended the domain academy as a child, and on the retirement of his father on July 28, 1848, he became the 9th daimyō of Hasunoike Domain.
Career
Before the Meiji Restoration, his courtesy titles were title of Kai no Kami and junior 5th, lower grade court rank (ju go i no ge 従五位下). In 1854, he was ordered by the Tokugawa Shogunate to take responsibility of the defenses of the Nagasaki area against possible incursions by foreign ships, and was forced to raise and train troops, and build coastal defense fortifications. This greatly strained the already precarious finances of the domain, which could only be resolved by placing the domain into great debt.
In 1864, he was ordered to participate in the First Chōshū expedition, and contributed 1000 soldiers to the Tokugawa army.
In 1869, he was appointed "domain governor" as the title of daimyō was abolished, and with the abolition of the han system and subsequent nerger of Hasunoike into the new Saga Prefecture in 1871, he moved to Tokyo. In 1884, he became a viscount (shishaku) under the kazoku peerage.
He died at the clan’s Azabu residence in 1891, and his grave is at the Azabu Cemetery in Tokyo.
