Background
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.
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Nobuyasu Nobuyasu
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Career
His courtesy title was Etchū-no-kami. Nobuyasu inherited a domain stricken by extensive famine caused by repeated natural disasters, with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions by Mount Iwaki, 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.
lieutenant was discovered that three senior retainers had conspired with merchants in Edo 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 of 1781, during which time thousands of people within the domain starved to death.
His grave is at the clan temple of Juyo-in in Taitō-ku, Tokyo as well as the Tsugaru clan temple of Chōshō-ji in Hirosaki.
