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	(1859-04-17)April 17, 1859
Died	July 29, 1886(1886-07-29) (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.

Further reading

• Nihonmatsu-han shi 二本松藩史. Tokyo: Nihonmatsu-hanshi kankōkai 二本松藩史刊行会, 1926 (republished by Rekishi Toshosha 歴史図書社, 1973)
• Onodera Eikō 小野寺永幸. Boshin Nanboku Sensō to Tōhoku Seiken 戊辰南北戦争と東北政権. Sendai: Kita no Sha 北の杜, 2004.
• Sugeno Shigeru 菅野与. Ōshū Nihonmatsu-han nenpyō 奥州二本松藩年表. Aizu-Wakamatsu shi 会津若松市: Rekishi Shunjūsha 歴史春秋社, 2004.

External links

• Genealogical Information (in Japanese)
• Concise Biography (in Japanese)