Oda Nobuhisa

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Oda Nobuhisa
織田 信久
3rd Daimyō of the Obata Domain
In office 1650–1714
Preceded by	Oda Nobumasa
Succeeded by	Oda Nobunari
Head of Oda clan
In office 1670–1714
Preceded by	Oda Nagamasa
Succeeded by	Oda Nobunari
Personal details
Born	1643 Uda-Matsuyama Domain, Yamato Province (present-day Uda, Nara)
Died	1714 Edo, Japan
Spouse(s)	Daughter of Inaba Nobumichi
Children	Oda Nobumori (eldest son) Oda Nobunari (third son) Oda Nobutomo Asada Nobumitsu Chōhime
Father	Oda Takanaga (biological) Oda Nobumasa (adoptive)

Oda Nobuhisa (織田 信久) (1643 – August 17, 1714) was a Japanese daimyō of the mid-Edo period. He served as the 3rd lord of the Obata Domain in Kōzuke Province (present-day Gunma Prefecture) from 1650 until his death in 1714. He was a great-great-grandson of the famous Sengoku period warlord Oda Nobunaga.

Early life

Nobuhisa was born in 1643 as the fourth son of Oda Takanaga, the ruler of the Uda-Matsuyama Domain in Yamato Province. His childhood name was Samon (左門), and he later took the name Naiki (内記).

In October 1650, the 2nd daimyō of the neighboring Obata Domain, Oda Nobumasa (Nobuhisa's first cousin), fell critically ill without a direct male heir. To prevent the shogunate from dissolving the domain through kaieki, Nobuhisa was hastily designated as a gonai-yōshi (deathbed adoptive heir). Following Nobumasa's death shortly thereafter, the seven-year-old Nobuhisa inherited the headship of the clan and control of the Obata Domain. One month later, he was granted an official audience with the Shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Biography

Nobuhisa ruled the Obata Domain for 64 years, making his tenure one of the longest and most impactful administrative periods in the domain's history.

Civic and infrastructure works

Nobuhisa is widely credited with reforming the agrarian landscape of the domain. He directed extensive civil engineering projects, including clearing local mountain forests for agriculture and constructing reservoir networks to mitigate droughts.

His most notable structural legacy is the expansion of the Ogawa Weir (雄川堰, Ogawa-seki), an intricate canal system running through the center of modern-day Kanra, Gunma. Under his administration, the weir was fully integrated into the perimeter defense as the outer moat of the Obata fortified residence (小幡陣屋, Obata Jinya), while concurrently serving as a clean drinking water utility and irrigation source for downstream farmlands. In 1666, he oversaw the final completion of the domain headquarters' *Ōtemon* (Main Gate).

Official duties and religious patronage

Within the administrative hierarchy of the Tokugawa shogunate, Nobuhisa advanced in prestige, eventually achieving the court hierarchy of Lower Fourth Rank (従四位下) and the title of Jijū (Chamberlain) alongside the honorific title of Governor of Echizen (越前守).

He was a devout patron of religious institutions. He appointed a dedicated magistrate of shrines and temples (*temachi-bugyō*) to reconstruct the main halls of the Nakannotake Shrine (中之嶽神社) in modern-day Shimonita.

Death and succession

Nobuhisa died in Edo on August 17, 1714, at the age around 70-71. He was buried at Sōfuku-ji temple, the hereditary mortuary temple of the Obata Oda clan in Kanra, Gunma. A secondary memorial monument was erected at the Okunoin cemetery on Mount Kōya.

His eldest son, Nobumori, died early, and his second son, Oda Nobutomo, was bypassed due to separate political appointments. Consequently, he was succeeded as the 4th lord of Obata by his third son, Oda Nobunari.

See also

• Oda clan
• Obata Domain

References

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