Count was the 12th and final "daimyō" of Hirosaki Domain in northern Mutsu Province, Honshū, Japan (modern-day Aomori Prefecture). His courtesy title was "Tosa-no-kami", which was later upgraded to "Etchū-no-kami" and "Jiju", and his Court rank under the Tokugawa shogunate was Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade.
Biography.
Tsugaru Tsuguakira was the 4th son of Hosokawa Narimori, the 8th "daimyō" of Uto Domain, a sub-domain of Kumamoto Domain in Kyushu. He married the 4th daughter of Tsugaru Yukitsugu, 11th "daimyō" of Hirosaki Domain, and was adopted as his heir in 1857.
Tsuguakira became "daimyō" on February 7, 1859 on the retirement of Yukitsugu, and continued his predecessor's policies of modernizing and westernizing the domain's military forces. He became "daimyō" during the turbulent Bakumatsu period, during which time the Tsugaru clan first sided with the pro-imperial forces of Satchō Alliance and attacked nearby Shōnai Domain. The domain then briefly defected to the pro-Tokugawa Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei, but, for reasons yet unclear, soon backed out of the alliance and re-joined the imperial cause after a few months, participating in several battles during the Boshin War, notably that of the Battle of Noheji, and Battle of Hakodate on the pro-Meiji side.
After the Meiji Restoration, with the abolition of the han system, he was appointed Imperial Governor of Hirosaki from 1869 to 1871, at which time the territory was absorbed into the new Aomori Prefecture.
He relocated to Tokyo. With the establishment of the "kazoku" peerage system in 1882, Tsuguakira was awarded with the title of "hakushaku" (count). After his retirement from public life, he served as a director of the , and was noted for his "waka" poetry. He died in Tokyo in 1916, and his grave is at the Yanaka Cemetery in Taitō-ku, Tokyo.
Tsugaru Tsuguakira had no son, and adopted the younger son of the court noble Konoe Tadafusa, who took the name of (1872–1919) to be his heir.
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