Ōkouchi (clan)

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Coat of arms of the Ōkouchi
in Yoshida and Ōtaki (three butterflies around chrysanthemum)
Coat of arms of the Ōkouchi
in Takasaki (three compartments)
Ōkouchi chest in the Ducal Museum Gotha
Okouchi (Takasaki) residence in Edo.

The Ōkouchi ( Japanese 大 河内 氏 , Ōkouchi-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from Minamoto no Yorimasa ( Seiwa-Genji ). They later also went by the name of Matsudaira through adoption . Among the branch families, the Ōkouchi with an income of 80,000 koku in Takasaki and the Ōkouchi with 70,000 koku in Yoshida (now Toyohashi ) belonged to the larger Fudai daimyō of the Edo period .

genealogy

Main line

  • Akitsuna ( 顕 縄 ; 1179–1230), a grandson of Yorimasa, was the first to take the name Ōkouchi.
  • Hidetsuna ( 秀 縄 ; 1546–1618)
  • Masatsuna ( 正 縄 ; 1576–1648), Hidetsuna's son, was adopted by Matsudaira Masatsugu, so that her family also had that name.
  • Nobutsuna ( 信 縄 ; 1596–1662), Masatsuna's son, was brought up together with the later shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu . In 1633 he got the Oshi-han ( Musashi Province ) with 60,000 koku. In 1638 he replaced the unsuccessful Itakura Shigemasa and ended the Shimabara uprising . Then he was transferred to Kawagoe ( Musashi ) with 90,000 koku. His descendants resided from 1694 in Koga ( Shimousa ), from 1712 in Yoshida ( Mikawa ), from 1729 in Hamamatsu ( Tōtōmi ) and then from 1749 to 1868 again in Yoshida with 70,000 Koku. After 1868 Vice Count.

Secondary lines

  • Nobuoki ( 信 興 ; 1630–1692), fifth son of Nobutsuna, founded a line that started in 1681 in Tsuchiura ( Hitachi ), from 1692 in Mibu ( 壬 生 , Shimotsuke ), from 1695 in Takasaki ( Kōzuke ), from 1710 in Murakami ( Echigo ) and finally resided again in Takasaki with 80,000 koku from 1717 to 1868. This line bore the title 左 京 亮 . The last daimyo was
    • Teruna ( 輝 声 ; 1848–1882), after 1868 vice count .
  • Masanobu ( 正 信 ; 1621–1693), son of Masatsuna, founded a line that resided in Ōtaki ( 大多 喜 町 , Kazusa ) with 25,000 koku from 1703 to 1868 . After 1868 Vice Count.
    • Masatoshi ( 大 河内 正 敏 ; 1878–1952), son of the last daimyo, was president of the national research institution RIKEN for 25 years .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 65.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the Daimyo koji district map from around 1850.

literature

  • Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
  • Miura, Masayuki (Ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 .
  • Miyaji, Saichiro (Ed.): Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanshu-tachi. Higashinihon-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997. ISBN 978-4-7959-1905-1 .