Honjō (clan)

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Honjō Coat of Arms
(Nine Blindfolded Eyes)
Honjō residence in Edo (near Toranomon)

The Honjō ( Japanese 本 庄 氏 , Honjō-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) from the province of Yamashiro . With an income of 70,000 Koku , the Honjō last residing in Miyazu ( Kyoto Prefecture ) belonged to the larger Fudai daimyō of the Edo period . From 1705 all three branches were allowed to use the name Matsudaira .

genealogy

Main branch

  • Munemasa ( 宗正 , 1580–1639)
  • Munesuke ( 宗 資 ; 1629-1699), Munemasa's second son, was the uncle on the maternal side of the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi , who raised him to daimyo of Kasama ( Hitachi ) with 50,000 koku in 1688 . His descendants resided from 1720 in Hamamatsu ( Tōtōmi ), from 1729 in Yoshida ( Mikawa ), from 1749 again in Hamamatsu and finally from 1758 to 1868 in Miyazu ( Tango ) with 70,000 Koku. After 1868 Vice Count .

1st secondary branch

  • Michika ( 道 章 , 1604–1668), Munemasa's eldest son, founded a branch that resided first in Iwataki ( Mino ) and then from 1706 to 1868 in a permanent house ( jinya ) in Takatomi (Mino). After 1868 vice count.

2nd branch

  • Munenaga ( 宗 長 , 1687–1709), a grandson of Munesuke, founded a branch that resided in Takamori ( Echizen ) with 50,000 koku. This branch died out in 1712.

literature

  • Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
  • Owada, Yasutsune: Takatomi-jinya in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 .
  • Kato, M .: Miyatsu-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (Ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Today the district of Gifu .
  2. ↑ Today the district of Yamagata .
  3. ↑ Today the district of Echizen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 117.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the map of the district "Sotosakurada" from approx. 1850.