Nishio Tadanari

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Lord of Tanaka
Nishio Tadanari
In office 1654 – 1679
Preceded by	Nishio Tadaakira
Succeeded by	Sakai Tadayoshi
Lord of Komoro
In office 1679 – 1682
Preceded by	Sakai Tadayoshi
Succeeded by	Matsudaira Norimasa
Lord of Yokosuka
In office 1682 – 1713
Preceded by	Honda Toshinaga
Succeeded by	Nishio Tadanao

Born	1653 Edo, Japan
Died	1713 Edo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese

Nishio Tadanari (西尾忠成, Nishio Tadanari^?) (1653-1713) was a Japanese daimyo of the early to mid Edo period, who ruled the Tanaka, Komoro domains, and was finally transferred to the Yokosuka Domain, where his family remained until the end of the Edo period.

[edit] Biography

Nishio Tadanari was the eldest son of Nishio Tadaakira, lord of the Tanaka Domain of Suruga Province. However, as Tadaakira died the following year, Tadanari succeeded to family headship as an infant. The Tanaka domain's income rating under the Nishio had been 25,000 koku; but since Tadanari's uncle Tadatomo was granted 5000 koku of territory, the domain's income rating was reduced to 20,000. In 1661 the young Tadanari was received by the shogun Ietsuna, and given the title of Oki no Kami (隠岐守) and junior 5th court rank, lower grade (ju go i no ge 従五位下). The Tanaka domain returned to a 25,000 koku income level upon Nishio Tadatomo's death in 1675; soon after, in 1679, the Nishio family was moved to the Komoro Domain of Shinano Province. Tadanari made great efforts to fix the damage caused by the misgovernment of Sakai Tadayoshi, the previous lord of Komoro; however, he was transferred once more (after barely three years in Shinano) to Yokosuka.

In Yokosuka, Tadanari again made great efforts for improving his domain, modernizing his castle town and even entertaining emissaries from the Korean court in the same year as his move to Yokosuka (1682). He was famed as a skilled artist and patron of the arts. However, administering the domain became a great burden, especially after the major earthquake of 1707, and he chose to retire, yielding family headship to his son, Tadanao, in the summer of 1713. Tadanari died in Sakurada, outside of Edo, in the fall of the same year, at age 61.

His grave is in Ageo, Saitama, at Myōgenji Temple.^[1]

Preceded by Nishio Tadaakira	Daimyo of Tanaka 1654-1679	Succeeded by Sakai Tadayoshi
Preceded by Sakai Tadayoshi	Daimyo of Komoro 1679-1682	Succeeded by Matsudaira Norimasa
Preceded by Honda Toshinaga	Daimyo of Yokosuka 1682-1713	Succeeded by Nishio Tadanao