Abe (Klan, Okabe)

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Coat of arms of the Abe zu Okabe

The Abe or Anbe ( Japanese 安 部 氏 , Abe-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) who belonged to the Shigeno branch of the Seiwa-Genji . With an income of 19,000 koku , they were among the smaller Fudai daimyo of the Edo period .

genealogy

The Abe family originally came from Suruga Province .

  • Nobukatsu ( 信勝 , 1552-1600), served only Imagawa Ujizane and then Tokugawa Ieyasu and received 1,590 areas in the county Hanzawa the Musashi Province , and in the circle Yanada in the neighboring province of Shimotsuke with an income of 5200 Koku.
  • Nobumori ( 信 盛 ; 1584–1674) was an elder of the Tokugawa. His income was increased in 1636 by 4000 Koku, 1649 by another 10.00 Koku, which he received daimyo rank. In 1636 Nobumori built a permanent house ( jin'ya ) in Hambara ( 半 原 ), Mikawa Province .
  • Nobumine ( 信 峯 ; 1659–1706), great-grandson, decided in 1705 to build a permanent house in Okabe ( 岡 部 ) in Musashi Province. The family lived there until the Meiji Restoration ,
  • Nobutaka ( 信 宝 , 1839–1863) was head of the house when the cannon pioneer Takashima Shūhan (1798–1866), suspected of being a shogunate, was arrested in Okabe from 1846 to 1853.
  • Nobuaki ( 信 発 ; 1847–1895), the last prince, moved to Hambara in 1868 because of the Boshin War . After 1868 Vice Count.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Today part of Shinshiro .
  2. ↑ Today a district of Fukaya .

literature

  • Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
  • Tsutsui, Yasuo: Okabe-jinya and Owada, Yasutsune: Hambara-jinya in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 .