Gotō (clan)

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Gotō coat of arms
(diamonds in a circle)

The Gotō ( Japanese 五 島 氏 , Gotō-shi ) or Uku ( 宇 久 氏 , Uku-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) from the province of Hizen . In the Edo period, with an income of 1,200 koku, they belonged to the little Tozama daimyo .

genealogy

  • Uku Iemori ( 宇 久 家 盛 ), the ancestor of the family, according to tradition, the younger brother of Taira no Kiyomori (1118–1181) who received Uku-jima in 1187. According to another tradition, Takeda Nobuhiro ( 武田 信 広 ), a descendant of Minamoto no Yoshimitsu , called himself Uku Iemori after his arrival on that island in 1186.
  • Sumiharu ( 純 玄 ; 1562–1594) ruled over Fukue , d. H. the Gotō Islands to which Uku-jima also belongs, and was the first to use the family name Gotō. He was a Christian, as were many of his vassals.
  • Harumasa ( 玄 雅 ; 1548-1612) was from 1603 daimyo of Fukue. He was baptized as a Christian as Luis, but fell apart from the faith after the battle of Sekigahara .
  • Moritoshi ( 盛 利 ; 1591–1642) was the son of Harumasa's cousin and was adopted by Harumasa as his successor. In 1638 he built a fortified house ( jin'ya ) as a residence in Fukue on the Ishida coast .

It wasn't until 1849, when European ships began to appear more and more frequently, that the Goto received permission from the shogunate to build a castle, which was completed in 1863. They resided there until the Meiji Restoration . After that, the chief carried the title vice count.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ikeda, Koichi: Fukue-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
  2. ↑ 宇 久 家 盛 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 6, 2016 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 五 島 純 玄 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 6, 2016 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 五 島 玄 雅 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 6, 2016 (Japanese).

literature

  • Ikeda, Koichi: Fukue-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (Ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
  • Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .