Early Life
Nagai Naoyuki, or as he was first known, Matsudaira Iwanojō (松平 岩之丞?), was born in the Nukada district of the Okutono Domain by a concubine to Matsudaira Noritada (松平 乗尹?). Noritada, while head of a collateral branch of the Tokugawa, was not classified as shinpan, like the Matsudaira of Aizu, but instead as fudai. Iwanojō, Noritada's second son, lost his father at the age of three. Subsequently, he was moved to Edo, to the Okutono domain's main residence, where he was in the care of his adoptive brother, Matsudaira Noriyoshi (松平 乗羨?), before being adopted by Tokugawa retainer Nagai Naonori. Following his adoption he took the adult name of Naoyuki (also read "Naomune").
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