Gamō (clan)

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Gamō coat of arms
(left-turning Tomoe )

The Gamō ( Japanese 蒲生氏 , Gamō-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) from the province of Ōmi , which was derived from Fujiwara no Hidesato. The Gamo were among the larger Tozama daimyo .

genealogy

  • Katahide ( 賢 秀 ; 1534–1584) initially supervised the castle of Hino in the province of Ōmi , then entered the service of Oda Nobunaga .
  • Ujisato ( 氏 郷 ; 1557–1596), a son of Katahide; distinguished himself at the age of 13 in the presence of Nobunaga by taking the Ōkōchi castle ( province of Ise ). Then Nobunaga gave him his daughter Sōōin to wife. After Nobunaga's death in 1582, Ujisato offered his widowed mother-in-law the Hino Castle as a residence. He later received the honorary title Hida no kami (governor of the province of Hida) and was daimyo at Matsugashima Castle (Ise) with an income of 120,000 koku . In 1590 he was transferred to Aizu ( Mutsu Province ) after the Battle of Odawara , where his territory comprised 12 counties ( gun ) and his income of 420,000 koku. He had the order to bring all the daimyo in the north to submit to Toyotomi Hideyoshi . Kunohe Masazane ( 九 戸 政 実 ) resisted, whereupon Ujisato, supported by Asano Nagamasa, besieged him in his castle Kunohe, took the castle and killed him. After this success, Ujisato's territory was increased by an additional seven counties and its income increased to 919,000 koku. He then went to Kyoto, where he was appointed Sangi. At the time of the Korean campaign , he accompanied Hideyoshi to Nagoya. At the time he also rebuilt Kurokawa Castle in Aizu and changed the name to Wakamatsu. He died at the age of 40 amid rumors that Hideyoshi had poisoned him. Ujisato was baptized “Leon” in 1584.
  • Hideyuki ( 秀 行 ; 1583–1612), a son of Ujisato, was only 13 years old when his father died. In 1598 he lost the fief of Aizu with the extremely high income, with the castle of Matsugashima being moved to Matsusaka, three kilometers further south. In exchange he received Utsunomiya ( Shimotsuke Province ) with 120,000 koku. After the Battle of Sekigahara , he was able to return to Aizu-Wakamatsu with 600,000 koku. There he died young. Hideyuki was a Christian like his father. His wife was Tokugawa Ieyasu's third daughter, Furihime.
  • Tadasato ( 忠 郷 ; 1603–1627), Hideyuki's eldest son, followed his father as daimyo, but he died without descendants, so that Aizu fell back to the shogunate.
  • Tadatomo (also Tadachika; 忠 知 ; 1605–1634), Hideyuki's second son, received Kaminoyama ( Dewa province ) with 40,000 koku in 1626 , but was moved to Matsuyama ( Iyo province ) with 200,000 koku a year later with the death of his brother also received Hino ( Ōmi province ) with 40,000 koku. He also died without offspring, with which this line became extinct.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Sangi ( 参議 ) was the title of a high-ranking advisor to the government without voting rights.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mizoguchi, Akihiro: Aizuwakamatsu-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 .
  2. ↑ 蒲生秀 行 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved November 17, 2016 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 蒲生忠 郷 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved November 17, 2016 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 長谷川 成 一 : 蒲生忠 知 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved November 17, 2016 (Japanese).

literature

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