{{family name hatnote|Inaba|lang=Japanese}}{{Infobox person | name = Inaba Masayasu | native_name = 稲葉 正休 | native_name_lang = ja | death_date = {{Death date and age|1684|10|07|1640|df=yes}} | title = Daimyō of Aono han in Mino Province }} {{nihongo|'''Inaba Masayasu'''|稲葉 正休||extra=1640 – October 7, 1684}} was a Japanese ''hatamoto'' and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of Aono han in Mino Province in Edo period Japan. Masayasu's family was descended from Konō Michitaka.<ref name="p15">Papinot, Jacques. (2003). [http://www.unterstein.net/Toyoashihara-no-Chiaki-Nagaioaki-no-Mitsuho-no-Kuni/NobiliaireJapon.pdf ''Nobiliare du Japon'' -- Inaba, p. 15]; Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon.'' (in French/German).</ref>
Masayasu was the son of ''hatamoto'' Inaba Masakichi, from whom he inherited the 5000 ''koku'' territory of Aono han in 1656. He served as a page and clerk for some time, before being summoned by the shogunate to oversee irrigation projects in the provinces of Kawachi and Settsu. For this, he was awarded the post of ''wakadoshiyori'' in 1682, and had his lands expanded to 12,000 ''koku''. Masayasu visited Kyoto as part of a formal inspection in 1683. In this period, Masayasu's cousin, Inaba Masamichi, held the powerful and highly trusted position of Kyoto ''shoshidai''.<ref>Tucker, John. (1998). [https://books.google.com/books?id=xkQc-lXHdH8C&dq=Inaba+Masamichi+&pg=RA1-PA5 ''Itō Jinsai's "Gomō Jigi" and the Philosophical Definition of Early Modern Japan,'' p. 4 n3.]</ref>
Masayasu is perhaps best known to history for assassinating his distant cousin, the ''Tairō'' Hotta Masatoshi (Masatoshi’s grandMother was Daughter of Inaba Masanori which made Masatoshi was Masayas’s first cousin once removed) inside Edo castle in 1684. Masayasu's motives remain unknown; but the absence of severe adverse repercussions for his family leaves open the supposition that the shōgun himself was privy to a planned assassination.<ref>Brinkley, Frank ''et al.'' (1915). [https://books.google.com/books?id=JlUCAAAAYAAJ&dq=Inaba+Masanobu&pg=PT13 ''A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era,'' p. 598.]</ref> 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, in contrast with the ''tozama'' or outsider clans.<ref name="a67">Appert, Georges. (1888). [https://books.google.com/books?id=CSUNAAAAYAAJ&q=ancien+japon+georges+appert ''Ancien Japon,'' p. 67.]</ref>
==Inaba clan genealogy== The ''fudai'' Inaba clan originated in Mino province.<ref name="a67" /> They claim descent from Kōno Michitaka (d. 1374),<ref name="p15"/> who claimed descent from Emperor Kammu (736–805).<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Inaba-name-meaning.ashx "Inaba" at Ancestry.com] citing Hank, Patrick, ed. (2003). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ugEEAAAACAAJ&q=Dictionary+of+American+Family+Names ''Dictionary of American Family Names.'']</ref>
Masasayu was part of the cadet branch of the Inaba which was created in 1588.<ref name="a67" /> This branch is descended from Inaba Masanari (+1628), who fought in the armies of Nobunaga and then Hideyoshi.<ref name="p15" />
In 1619, Masanari was granted the ''han'' of Itoigawa (25,000 ''koku'') in Echigo province; then, in 1627, his holding was transferred to Mōka Domain (65,000 ''koku'') in Shimotsuke province. Masanari's descendants resided successively at Odawara Domain (105,000 ''koku'') in Sagami province from 1632 through 1685; at Takata Domain in Echigo province from 1685 through 1701; at Sakura Domain in Shimōsa province from 1701 through 1723.<ref name="p15" />
Masasayu's relatives and others who were also descendants of Inaba Masanari settled at Yodo Domain (115,000 ''koku'') in Yamashiro province from 1723 through 1868.<ref name="a67" /> The head of this clan line was ennobled as a "Viscount" in the Meiji period.<ref name="p15" />
==Tokugawa official== Masayasu was a junior counselor (''wakadoshiyori'') in the Edo shogunate.<ref>Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice. (1998). [https://books.google.com/books?id=gfFCRaUIB40C&dq=inaba+masanari&pg=PA98 ''The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi,'' p. 98.]</ref>
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==References== * Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888). ''Ancien Japon.'' Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4429674 OCLC 4429674] * Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice. (1999). ''Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed.'' Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press . {{ISBN|9780824819644}}; {{ISBN|9780824820664}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246417677 OCLC 246417677] * Brinkley, Frank and Dairoku Kikuchi. (1915). ''A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era.'' New York: Encyclopædia Britannica. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246417677 OCLC 246417677] * Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01753-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48943301/editions?editionsView=true&referer=br OCLC 48943301] * Papinot, Jacques Edmund Joseph. (1906) ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon.'' Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/465662682 OCLC 465662682]; [http://www.unterstein.net/Toyoashihara-no-Chiaki-Nagaioaki-no-Mitsuho-no-Kuni/NobiliaireJapon.pdf ''Nobiliaire du japon'' (abridged version of 1906 text).] * Tucker, John Allen. (1998). ''Itō Jinsai's "Gomō Jigi" and the Philosophical Definition of Early Modern Japan.'' Leiden: Brill Publishers. {{ISBN|9789004109926}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38842061 OCLC 38842061]
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