Endō (clan)

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Endo coat of arms

The Endō ( Japanese 遠藤 氏 , Endō-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) , which came from the province of Mino and which was derived from the Taira .

genealogy

  • Originally, the Endō were a subsidiary branch of the Tō clan ( 東 氏 , Tō-shi ).
  • Morikazu ( 盛 数 ; † 1563) built the Gujō-Hachiman castle .
  • Yoshitaka ( 慶隆 ; 1550-1632), his son served Toyotomi Hideyoshi , but switched to the Tokugawa side and became the first daimyō on Gujō-Hachiman.
  • Tanechika ( 胤 親 ; 1683-1735) was transferred to Mikami in Ōmi province in 1698 , where the family had to be content with an income of only 10,000 koku and a permanent house ( Jin'ya ). The Endō resided there until the end of the Tokugawa period .
  • Taneki ( 胤 城 ; 1838–1909) was the last daimyo. After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the family took the name Tō. The head of the house held the title Vice Count until 1945.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Owada, Yasutsune: Hachimangujo-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Flower in the turtle shell.
  2. ↑ Today a district of Yasu .

literature

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