Manabe Akifusa was a prominent shogunal advisor (''[[soba yonin|soba yônin]]'') under [[Tokugawa Ienobu]] and [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]], and [[daimyo|lord]] of [[Takasaki han]] in [[Kozuke province|Kôzuke province]].
Manabe Akifusa was a prominent shogunal advisor (''[[soba yonin|soba yônin]]'') under [[Tokugawa Ienobu]] and [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]], and [[daimyo|lord]] of [[Takasaki han]] in [[Kozuke province|Kôzuke province]].
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The son of [[Nishida Kiyosada]], he claimed descent from the [[Fujiwara clan]]. Akifusa served Ienobu from an early age. He became lord of the 50,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of Takasaki in [[1710]], and then was transferred to [[Murakami han]] in [[Echigo province]] in [[1717]].
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==References==
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*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n24.