Tsuchiya Masanao (土屋 政直; March 16, 1641 – December 23, 1722), was adaimyō inJapan during theEdo period.[1] Masanao's daimyō family was descended from Minamoto Yasuuji (Seiwa-Genji). The descendants of Tsuchiya (1585–1612) lived successively at Kururi inKazusa Province; after 1669 at Tsuchiura inHitachi Province; after 1681 at Tanaka inSuruga Province; and then, after 1688, again at Tsuchiura in Hitachi.[2]
He was theTokugawa shogunate'sKyotoshoshidai in the period spanning October 19, 1686, through November 17, 1687.[1]