Mizuno Tadanori
Biography. Mizuno Tadanori was born as the younger son of a "hatamoto" of Numazu Domain and was posthumously adopted as heir to Mizuno Tadanobu on the latter's sudden death in 1866. In 1867, he received the courtesy title of "Dewa-no-kami" and was appointed to the guard of the Otemon of Edo Castle. However, the following year he pledged fealty to the new Meiji government and fought in the Boshin War against the remnants of the pro-Tokugawa forces. Following the reassignment of the Tokugawa clan to Shizuoka Domain, he was transferred to the newly-created  Kikuma Domain in Kazusa Province with the same nominal "kokudaka" and his courtesy title was changed to "Ugo-no-kami." he was appointed imperial governor of Kikuma until the abolition of the han system in 1871. In July 1884, he received the peerage title of viscount ("shishaku") under the "kazoku" peerage system. He died in 1907 and his grave is at the Denzu-in in Bunkyo, Tokyo. His wife was the third daughter of Ōkōchi Masatomo, "daimyō" of Ōtaki Domain