Aoki (clan)

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Aoki coat of arms (Aoki- Fuji )
Old coat of arms of the Aoki

The Aoki ( Japanese 青木 氏 , Aoki-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) from the province of Mino , which was derived from the court nobility Tajihi no Shima (多 治 比 嶋; 624-701). They belonged to the Tozama daimyo during the Edo period .

genealogy

The former higher subordinate of Toyotomi , Aoki Kazushige (青木 一 重; 1551-1628), was accepted by Tokugawa Ieyasu after the siege of Osaka and the sinking of Toyotomi in 1615 and promoted to daimyo with an income of 10,000 koku . Aoki was able to build a permanent house (jinya) in Asada, which he and his descendants lived in until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. After 1868 the head of the house received the title Vice Count.

The fortress house, built in the innermost area, the Honmaru (本 丸), was protected in the east and north by a moat. Around it was a second area, the Ni-no-maru (二 の 丸), which was protected by a surrounding ditch. Today the property is built over with an administration building, nothing of the old system has survived. Only one inscribed stone is a reminder of the past. Gates to the fixed house were implemented on private land or to the local temple Hōonji (法 恩 寺) and are thus preserved.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Asada (麻田) is now part of the city of Toyonaka in Osaka Prefecture .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The old coat of arms of the Aoki shows beach hills in a circle. It was used until the Sengoku period . See Takahashi, Ken'ichi: Aoki-ke . In: Kamon - Hatamoto hachiman koma.

literature

  • Hashiba, Akira: Asada jinya in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
  • Takahashi, Ken'ichi: Aoki-ke . In: Kamon - Hatamoto hachiman koma. Akita Shoten, 1976.
  • Edmond Papinot: Aoki . Mentioned in: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .