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Asano Naganao (浅野長直, 1610 – September 15, 1672) was a Japanese daimyō of the Edo period, who ruled the Akō Domain.^[1] He was classified as a tozama, and Akō under his rule was 53,000 koku in size.^[2] Naganao was responsible for the construction of Akō Castle.^[3]

Preceded by Asano Nagashige	Daimyō of Kasama 1632–1645	Succeeded by Inoue Masatoshi
Preceded by Ikeda Teruoki	Daimyō of Akō 1645–1671	Succeeded by Asano Nagatomo

References

This article is derived from corresponding content on the Japanese Wikipedia.

^ Totman, Conrad (1995). Early Modern Japan. University of California Press. pp. 171–172. ISBN 9780520203563.
^ Masahide, Bitō Masahide; Smith, Henry D. II (2003). "The Akō Incident, 1701–1703". Monumenta Nipponica. 58 (2): 149–170. JSTOR 25066212.
^ Bowring, Richard (2017). In Search of the Way: Thought and Religion in Early-modern Japan, 1582–1860. Oxford University Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780198795230.