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[[File:Narinobu.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Shimazu Narinobu's gravestone at the [[Shimazu clan]] graveyard at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]], in [[Kagoshima]]]]
[[File:Narinobu.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Shimazu Narinobu's gravestone at the [[Shimazu clan]] graveyard at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]], in [[Kagoshima]]]]
*''Born: An'ei 2/12/6 (1 Jan [[1774]])''
*''Born: An'ei 2/12/6 (17 Jan [[1774]])''
*''Died: [[1841]]/10/13''
*''Died: [[1841]]/10/13''
*''Other Names'': 虎寿丸 ''(Torajumaru)'', 又三郎 ''(Matasaburou)'', 渓山 ''(Keizan)''
*''Japanese'': [[島津]]斉宣 ''(Shimazu Narinobu)''
*''Japanese'': [[島津]]斉宣 ''(Shimazu Narinobu)''
Shimazu Narinobu was the 26th head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and ninth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]]. He is known for his policies of austerity and thrift.
Shimazu Narinobu was the 26th head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and ninth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]]. He is known for his policies of austerity and thrift.
The eldest son of [[Shimazu Shigehide]], he succeeded his father as lord of Satsuma in [[1787]], at the age of 15. His adoptive mother was a daughter of [[Tokugawa Munetada]] of the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]]. His retired father continued to play a prominent role in advising the young Narinobu. In [[1807]], Narinobu appointed [[Kabayama Chikara]] and [[Chichibu Taro|Chichibu Tarô]] to be among his ''[[karo|karô]]'', as part of a complete overhaul of the domain administration. They oversaw reforms of the [[han school]], and canceled a number of Shigehide's policies in favor of austerity programs. This earned the ire of Shigehide, who forced a number of the clan retainers in [[1808]] to commit suicide, and others to be exiled; Narinobu, meanwhile, was forced to retire the following year, in favor of his teenage son, [[Shimazu Narioki]].
The eldest son of [[Shimazu Shigehide]], he was known as Torajumaru and Matasaburô as a child. In [[1787]], at the age of 15, he succeeded his father as lord of Satsuma. His adoptive mother was a daughter of [[Tokugawa Munetada]] of the [[Hitotsubashi Tokugawa clan]]. His retired father continued to play a prominent role in advising the young Narinobu.
Narinobu died on [[1841]]/10/13 at the age of 69, at the [[Satsuma Edo mansion|Shimazu mansion]] in the Takanawa neighborhood of [[Edo]], and was buried at the Shimazu clan cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]].
Over the course of his reign, Narinobu escorted three [[Ryukyuan missions to Edo]], in [[1790]], [[1796]], and [[1806]]. He was elevated to the court rank of Upper Junior Fourth Rank, Chûjô (Middle Captain), in 1790, but as had become standard by that time did not receive a similar elevation in rank on the other two occasions.<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 67.</ref>
In [[1807]], Narinobu appointed [[Kabayama Chikara]] and [[Chichibu Taro|Chichibu Tarô]] to be among his ''[[karo|karô]]'', as part of a complete overhaul of the domain administration. They oversaw reforms of the [[han school]] [[Zoshikan|Zôshikan]], and canceled a number of Shigehide's policies in favor of austerity programs. This earned the ire of Shigehide, who forced Kabayama, Chichibu, and eleven other clan retainers in [[1808]] to commit suicide, and twenty-five others to be exiled; some one hundred people were punished in total, in one fashion or another in what has come to be known as the [[Kinshirokukuzure Incident]].<ref>''Honjin ni tomatta daimyô tachi'', Toyohashi, Aichi: Futagawa-juku honjin shiryôkan (1996), 28.</ref> Narinobu, meanwhile, was forced to retire the following year, in favor of his 19-year-old son, [[Shimazu Narioki]]. In his retirement, he took on the [[art-name]] Keizan. He took up residence at the Shimazu clan mansion at Shirogane, in Edo. In [[1835]], he returned to Kagoshima for the first time in 25 years.<ref>''Honjin ni tomatta daimyô tachi'', 77.</ref>
Narinobu died on [[1841]]/10/13 at the age of 69, at the [[Satsuma Edo mansion|Shimazu mansion]] in the Takanawa neighborhood of [[Edo]], and was buried at the Shimazu clan cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in [[Kagoshima]], along with his mother and his two wives.
While he was succeeded as lord of Satsuma by his son Narioki, Narinobu's second son [[Shimazu Sadatake]] was adopted by [[Matsudaira Sadamichi]] and succeeded Sadamichi as lord of [[Iyo-Matsuyama han]], and Narinobu's third son, [[Shimazu Tadatake]], became head of the [[Imaizumi clan]], a branch family of the Shimazu. Tadatake's daughter [[Atsu-hime]] would later go on to marry Shogun [[Tokugawa Iesada]].<ref>''Kaiyô kokka Satsuma'' 海洋国家薩摩, Kagoshima: Shôkoshûseikan (2010), 58-59.</ref>
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*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B3%B6%E6%B4%A5%E6%96%89%E5%AE%A3-18468 Shimazu Narinobu]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha, 2009.
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B3%B6%E6%B4%A5%E6%96%89%E5%AE%A3-18468 Shimazu Narinobu]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha, 2009.
*"[http://www.shuseikan.jp/toushu/toushu26.html Shimazu Narinobu]," ''Satsuma Shimazu-ke no rekishi'', [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]] official website.
*"[http://www.shuseikan.jp/toushu/toushu26.html Shimazu Narinobu]," ''Satsuma Shimazu-ke no rekishi'', [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]] official website.
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