Ōkubo (clan)

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Coat of arms Okubo (Odawara):
Ōkubo- Wisteria ( 大久保藤 )
Coat of arms of the Ōkubo (Karasuyama):
Nasu -Ōkubo-Wisterie ( 那 須 大 久保 藤 )
Ōkubo (Odawara) residence in Edo

The Ōkubo ( Japanese 大 久保 氏 , Ōkubo-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from the Utsunomiya and through them from Fujiwara no Michikane . With an income of 100,000 Koku , the Ōkubo residing at Odawara Castle ( Kanagawa Prefecture ) belonged to the larger Fudai daimyo of the Edo period .

genealogy

  • Tadakazu ( 忠 員 , 1510–1582) supported Tokugawa Ieyasu and helped him in 1555 to defeat Imagawa Yoshimoto.
    • Tadayo ( 忠 世 , 1531–1593), eldest son of Tadakazu, took part in all of Ieyasu's campaigns and received from him 1590 Odawara ( Sagami ) with an income of 45,000 koku.
      • Tadachika ( 忠 隣 , 1553–1628) followed his father in Odawara with 70,000 koku. In 1614 he was accused of conspiring with Tokugawa Tadateru against his brother, Shogun Hidetada , whereupon he was exiled to Hikone ( Ōmi ). Later Hidetada wanted to bring him back to Edo , but he refused and died in exile.
        • Tadatsune ( 忠 常 , 1580-1611), son of Tadayos, took part in Hidetada's campaign to Shinano in 1600 . He died before his father.
          • Tadamoto ( 忠 職 , 1604–1670), Tadayo's grandson, was initially involved in his grandfather's difficulties. He got the 1632 fief of Kanō ( Mino ) with 50,000 koku, 1639 Akashi ( Harima ), 1649 Karatsu ( Hizen ) with 90,000 koku. His descendants resided from 1678 at Sakura Castle (Shimōsa) and in 1686 again in Odawara with 100,000 koku, where they had their seat until 1868.
          • Tadayoshi ( 忠良 , 1857–1877) was the last daimyo. After 1868 he and his descendants received the title Vice Count until 1947 .
        • A branch that was derived from Norihiro ( 教 寛 , 1657–1737) owned a permanent house ( jinya ) in Ogino (Sagami) with 13,000 koku from 1718 to 1868 . After 1868 Vice Count.
    • Tadasuke ( 忠 佐 , 1537-1613), Tadakazu's second son, distinguished himself in all campaigns under Ieyasu by bravery. He received the Numazu (Suruga) castle with 20,000 koku, but had no offspring, so that the domain reverted to the shogunate.
    • Tadatame ( 忠 為 , 1554-1616) was the sixth son of Tadakazu. His descendants resided at Karasuyama Castle ( Shimotsuke ) with 30,000 koku from 1725 to 1868 . After 1868 Count.
    • Tadanori ( 忠 教 , 1560–1639), better known under the name Hikozaemon ( 彦 左衛 門 ), Tadakazu's eighth son, accompanied his older brother Tadayo on his campaigns. He was implicated in the wrongdoing of his nephew Tadachika and fell out of favor. After the siege of Osaka , Ieyasu wanted to give him back his property, but he refused. But he stayed in Edo and became an advisor and confidante of the Shoguns Hidetada and Iemitsu .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Today a district of Atsugi

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 173.
  2. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 173.
  3. ↑ Excerpt from the "Atagoshita" 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 .
  • Tsutsui, Yasuo: Odawara-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 .
  • Miyaji, Saichiro (Ed.): Odawara-han. In: Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanshu-tachi. Higashinihon-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997. ISBN 978-4-7959-1905-1 .