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Asano Nagakoto

Japanese politician

Field	Value
image	ASANO Nagakoto.jpg
nationality	Japanese
order	Lord of Hiroshima
term_start	June 17, 1869
term_end	July 14, 1871
predecessor	Asano Nagamichi
successor	none
birth_date	August 28, 1842
birth_place	Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
death_date	February 1, 1937

Marquis Asano Nagakoto was a daimyō of Hiroshima Domain for a short time after the Meiji Restoration. For the rest of the Meiji period, he was a politician and diplomat, and was one of the last surviving Japanese daimyō (Hayashi Tadataka and Wakebe Mitsunori outlived him).

Biography

Adopted by his uncle Asano Nagamichi, he served as assistant to his adoptive father through the 1860s, and attended many of the meetings and events surrounding the restoration of Imperial rule, and as such was one of many who advised the shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu to return power to the Emperor of Japan. Unlike many from domains such as Satsuma and Chōshū, however, Asano was opposed to taking military action against the shogunate. His childhood name was Kiyotsuchi (喜代槌) later Tamegoro (為五郎).

Nagakoto became the twelfth daimyō of Hiroshima in 1869 upon Nagamichi's retirement. The domains (han) were abolished in 1871, but Asano was granted the title of Marquis (kōshaku) under the kazoku system of peerage which was instituted at that time.

He became a member of the Genrōin (Chamber of Elders) in 1880, was appointed ambassador to Italy two years later, and served in the House of Peers for a time as well. Though living and serving in Tokyo, he worked to support industry and other enterprises in his home area, newly dubbed Hiroshima Prefecture.

The Asano Library (now the Hiroshima Central City Library) opened in 1926, and Asano died in 1937 at the age of 96.

Family

Father: Asano Tsutomo
Mother: daughter of Sawa Yoshimoto
Adoptive Father: Asano Nagamichi
Wife: Yamanouchi Tsunahime, daughter of Yamanouchi Toyoteru, 13th Daimyo of Tosa Domain
Adopted Children:
- Asano Nagamichi
- Asano Nagaatsu (1843–1873)
- Mashiko married Matsura Atsushi
- Asano Nagayuki, his cousin (son of his uncle Asano Toshitsugu)

References

Much of this article is derived from a translation of the corresponding article on the Japanese Wikipedia.
Frederic, Louis (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

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