Kamei Masanori

Kamei Masanori was the first Kamei lord of the Tsuwano domain in Iwami Province. In 1617, following the confiscation of Sakazaki Naomori's fief, he left Shikano Castle in Inaba Province for Tsuwano, with a domain of 43,000 koku. His family held the castle for eleven generations, until the Meiji Restoration, which makes Tsuwano one of the rare mountain castles to have remained the seat of a domain throughout the Edo period. It was under the Kamei that the keep was destroyed by lightning in 1686 and never rebuilt; the castle town of Tsuwano, at its foot, still preserves many traces of their administration.