Akimoto (clan)
The Akimoto ( Japanese 秋 元氏 , Akimoto-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from the Utsunomiya and through them from the Fujiwara . With an income of 63,000 Koku , the Akimoto , who last resided in Tatebayashi ( Gumma Prefecture ), were among the larger Fudai daimyō of the Edo period .
genealogy
Around 1450 the family was named Akimoto in Kazusa Province after their place of residence .
- Nagatomo ( 長 朝 ; † 1628) first served the Hōjō . After the fall of Odawara , he joined Tokugawa Ieyasu , who gave him property in Sōsha ( Kōzuke ) and raised him to daimyō in 1600 after the Battle of Sekigahara .
- Yasutomo ( 泰 朝 ; 1580–1642), son with the honorary title Tajima no kami , received Yamura ( Kai ) with 18,000 koku in 1641 .
- Takatomo ( 喬 知 ; 1647–1714), a son of Toda Tadamasa, was adopted by Tomitomo Tomitomo ( 富 朝 ), who had no offspring. In 1704 he was transferred to Kawagoe ( Musashi ) with 50,000 koku. His descendants resided in Yamagata ( Dewa ) from 1767 and then from 1845 to 1868 in Tatebayashi (Kōzuke) with 63,000 Koku. The last daimyo was
- Yukitomo ( 忠 朝 ), also Hirotomo ( 礼 朝 , 1848–1883). After 1868 Vice Count.
Individual evidence
literature
- Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
- Sugai, Yasuo: Tatebayshi-jo in: 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 .