Matsumae Akihiro

Names He originally went by the name of and was also known as . His domain thus greatly reduced, Matsumae Akihiro was compensated with the grant of lands in Musashi Province, in what is now Kuki, Saitama Prefecture, to the value of five thousand koku.

In Bunka 2 (1805), learning that Nikolai Rezanov, on his return from Nagasaki, had met with officials of the Matsumae Domain and a number of Ainu, the bakufu sent out to inspect the state of affairs in Matsumae and western Ezo. Taken ill upon his arrival in Matsumae that winter, he returned to Edo, journeying north again in 1806, his tour of inspection taking him from Matsumae to Sōya, before he returned to Edo once more. Matsumae Akihiro's grave may be found amongst those of the other Matsumae daimyō at in Matsumae.