Tsugaru Tsuguakira

Count Tsugaru Tsuguakira (津軽 承昭, September 7, 1840 – July 19, 1916) was the 12th and final daimyō of Hirosaki Domain in northern Mutsu Province, Honshū, Japan (modern-day Aomori Prefecture).

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[1] first sided with the pro-imperial forces of Satchō Alliance and attacked nearby Shōnai Domain.

[2] 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.

After his retirement from public life, he served as a director of the Number 15 National Bank (第十五国立銀行, Dai jūgo kokuritsu ginkō), and was noted for his waka poetry.