Asano (clan)

Asano coat of arms: crossed falcon feathers ( 芸 州 鷹 の 羽 )

Akizuki residence in Edo

The Asano ( Japanese 浅 野 氏 , Asano-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), who descended from the Toki of Mino , who in turn were derived from the Seiwa-Genji . With an income of 426,000 Koku , the Asano residing in Hiroshima were among the great Tozama daimyo of the Edo period .

genealogy

• Nagamasa ( 長 政 ; 1546–1610)
  • Yukinaga ( 幸 長 ; 1576–1613)
    • Nagaakira ( 長 晟 ; 1586–1632). He followed the childless Yukinaga as a brother. He distinguished himself at the siege of Osaka , married a daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu and received the fief of Hiroshima in 1619.
      • Mitsuakira ( 光 晟 ; 1617–1693)
        • Tsunaakira. ( 綱 晟 ; 1637–1673) ⁽¹⁾
      • Nagaharu ( 長治 ; 1614–1675)
        • Nagateru ( 長 照 ; 1652–1705) ⁽²⁾
  • Nagashige ( 長 重 ; 1588–1632)
    • Naganao ( 長 直 ; 1610–1672)
      • • Naganori ( 長 矩 ; 1667–1701). Naganori had to commit seppuku after the dispute with Kira Yoshinaka , which was the reason for the vengeance of the 47 samurai . ⁽³⁾

⁽¹⁾Main line in Hiroshima-han , 426,000 Koku

⁽²⁾Branch line in Miyoshi-han ( 三好 藩 ), 50,000 Koku

⁽³⁾Branch line in Akō-han ( 赤 穂 藩 ), 55,000 Koku

View of the Kasumigaseki, on the right the Asano-Yashiki

The branch line (2) existed from 1637 to 1719, since Nagatsune ( 長 経 ; 1709-1719) died childless. The Han fell back to the main line, a fortified residence has not been preserved. The secondary line (3) existed from 1606 until Naganori's death in 1701. The Akō-han was then given to other families.

In Edo , the Asano owned a large estate north of the Kasumigaseki slope path. Utagawa Hiroshige often depicted it together with the large Kuroda estate on the other side of the slope path (today the Foreign Ministry is located there ), either from the east with the magnificent portals, or as long rows of side houses (so-called Nagaya) on the right and left up the hillside path.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ T. Furusawa: Kamon Daicho . Kin'ensha, n.d. ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 118.
2. ↑ Excerpt from the map of the district "Soto-Sakurada" from approx. 1850.
3. ↑ M. Miura (ed.): Shiro to jinya soran. Saikoku-hen . Gakken, 2006, ISBN 4-05-604379-5 .
4. ↑ District map “Soto-Sakurada” (1850).

literature

• Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the original 1910 edition by Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .

Web links

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