Arima (Klan, Settsu)

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Coat of arms of the Arima (Three Tomoe )
Arima residence in Edo.

The Arima ( Japanese 有 馬氏 , Arima-shi ) from the Settsu Province were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from the Murakami Genji via the Akamatsu . With an income of 210,000 Koku , the Arima residing in Kurume ( Fukuoka Prefecture ) belonged to the great Tozama daimyo of the Edo period .

Some members

  • Yoshisuke ( 義 祐 ), son of Akamatsu Norisuke ( 赤松 則 祐 ; 1312-1371) was the first who named himself "Arima" after a district in the province of Settsu, where he settled towards the end of the 14th century. He built the castle of Sanda ( 三 田 城 ), where his descendants lived for 200 years.
  • Noriyori ( 則 頼 ; 1533-1602) served Toyotomi Hideyoshi , who gave him the Miki Castle ( 三 木 城 ) in Harima Province . He later joined Tokugawa Ieyasu , who increased his income to 20,000 koku .
  • Toyouji ( 豊 氏 ; 1570–1642), a son of Noriyori, fought against the troops of Oda Hidenobu near Akasaka Mino around 1600 . After the campaign he received the Fukuchiyama -han ( Tamba ) with 80,000 koku. He took part in the siege of Osaka in 1615 and took 57 heads of opponents with him as trophies. In 1620 he was transferred to Kurume with an income of 210,000 koku, where his successors resided until the Meiji Restoration.
  • Yorishige ( 頼 咸 ; 1828–1881) concluded the daimyo series. From the Meiji period until 1945, the head of the family carried the title "Graf".

A secondary branch received the daimyo rank in 1726. He resided first in Saijō ( Ise ), then from 1841 in Fukiage ( Shimotsuke ). With 10,000 koku. Vice Count .

Remarks

  1. ↑ From the district map Shiba Mita Nihon-enoki Takanawa hen (now Shiba 3-chome). There with the title Nakatsukasa no taifu ( 中 務 大 輔 ) noted.
    At the bottom left there is a suite-gū ( 水 天宮 ) shrine on the site . In 1818 Arima Yorinori had a branch shrine of the suites-gū of Kurume built in Edo (Nihonbashi district). The small shrine on the Arima property is a reminder of home.

literature

  • Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
  • Saichiro Miyaji (Ed.): Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanchu-tachi. Saikoku-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997, ISBN 978-4-7959-1905-1 .