Hiraiwa Chikayoshi

Hiraiwa Chikayoshi

Hiraiwa's coat of arms ("Tense Arches")

Hiraiwa Chikayoshi ( Japanese 平 岩 親 吉 ; born 1542 ; died February 1, 1612 ) was a samurai who was promoted to daimyō under Tokugawa Ieyasu . He died with no offspring, with which the line became extinct.

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Hiraiwa Chikayoshi was from Mikawa Province and was taken hostage by the Imagawa along with Tokugawa Ieyasu . Ieyasu was therefore very close to him later on and entrusted him with the upbringing of his eldest son Nobuyasu . After the Takeda were wiped out, Chikayoshi was appointed governor of Kai Province in 1601 and began building Kofu Castle . In 1590 he received the Umayabashi Castle in Kōzuke Province with an income of 33,000 Koku . After taking care of the 7th son of Ieyasu, Yoshinao , he returned to Kofu Castle.

Chikayoshi then resided at Kiyosu Castle . And when Yoshinao received Nagoya Castle in 1610 , he supported him in the administration of the Owari Province . He himself resided at Inuyama Castle with an income of 100,000 koku. He died at the beginning of February 1612 the following year without descendants, so that the line was extinguished after the first generation. - He went down in history as one of the "Sixteen Holy Generals of the Tokugawa" ( 徳 川 十六 神 将 , Tokugawa jūroku shinshō ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Umayabashi Castle ( 厩 橋 城 ) was renamed Maebashi towards the end of the 17th century .

literature

• Sugai, Yasuo: Kofu-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (Ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 .
• Edmond Papinot: Hiraiwa Chikayoshi . In: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Hiraiwa is the family name, Chikayoshi the first name.