Niwa Nagahiro

Niwa Nagahiro
Niwa Nagahiro
Lord of Nihonmatsu
In office
1868–1871
Preceded by Niwa Nagakuni
Succeeded by none
(family succeeded by Niwa Nagayasu)
Personal details
Born April 17, 1859
Died July 29, 1886 (aged 27), aged 27
Nationality Japanese

Viscount Niwa Nagahiro (丹羽長裕) (April 17, 1859 July 29, 1886) was a Japanese daimyo of the early Meiji period who ruled Nihonmatsu han. The 9th son of Yonezawa lord Uesugi Narinori, he succeeded to the Nihonmatsu headship in 1868. Nihonmatsu had just lost in the Boshin War, and as one of the conditions for its surrender to the Imperial Japanese Army, Niwa Nagakuni, the previous daimyo, retired. In his place, his adopted son Nagahiro became daimyo, with Nihonmatsu reduced to 50,000 koku in its holdings (half of what it had previously held). After the domain system was abolished, Nagahiro became a shishaku (viscount) in the new kazoku system. He was succeeded by his birth brother Nagayasu (Uesugi Narinori's 11th son) in 1886.

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Preceded by
Niwa Nagakuni
Daimyō of Nihonmatsu
1868-1871
Succeeded by
none (domain abolished)
Preceded by
Niwa Nagakuni
Niwa clan head
1868-1886
Succeeded by
Niwa Nagayasu