Hosokawa (clan)

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Old Hosokawa coat of arms
Yoriharu line coat of arms

The Hosokawa ( Japanese 細 川 氏 , Hosokawa-shi ), who were derived from the Seiwa Genji via Ashikaga Yoshiyasu , were an important family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) for centuries .

To the family

Yoshiyasu's great-grandson Yoshisue ( 義 康 ; 1127–1157) was the first to call himself Hosokawa , after the family estate, the district of Hosokawa, in the province of Mikawa . During the Ashikaga Shogunate , the Hosokawa were, along with the Shiba and the Hatakeyama, one of the three families ( 三 管 領 , sankanrei ) that made up the governors of Kyoto. the Kyōto Kanrei could be elected as governor of the shoguns of.

The Hosokawa

  • Kimiyori (公 頼) had four sons
    • 1. Kazuuchi (和 氏)
      • Kiyouchi
        • Yorikazu
      • Kiyouchi (清 氏), son of Kazuuji
    • 2. Yoriharu (頼 春; 1290–1352)
      • Yoriyuki (頼 之; 1329–1392), 1st son of Yoriharu
      • Yorimoto (頼 元; 1343–1397), 2nd son of Yoriharu
        • Mitsumoto (満 元; 1378–1442), son of Yorimoto
          • Mochiyuki (持 之; 1400–1442), son of Mitsumoto
            • Katsumoto (勝 元; 1430–1473), son of Mochiyuki
              • Masamoto (政 元; 1466–1507), son of Katsumoto
                • Takakuni (高 國; 1484–1531), 1st adopted son of Masamoto
                • Sumimoto (澄 元; 1489–1520), 2nd adopted son of Masamoto, son of Yoshiharu
                  • Harumoto (晴 元; 1514–1563), son of Sumimoto
                    • Akimoto (昭 元) or Nobuyoshi (信 良; † 1615?), Was a son of Harumoto and, like his father, was imprisoned at Akutagawa Castle (芥 川 城; Settsu Province ). After Oda Nobunaga took the province in 1568, he left two counties in the Tamba province to him . When Toyotomi Hideyoshi came to power, he took the territories away from Akimoto. It is unclear how Akimoto ended up.

With Akimoto's death, the daimyō status of the early Hosokawa expired.

                • Sumiyuki (澄 之; † 1597), 3rd adopted son of Masamoto
      • Yorimochi, 3rd son of Yoriharu
        • Yorinaga
          • Mochiari
            • Noriharu (教 春)
              • Tsuneari
                • Masaari
                  • Motoari
                    • Mototsune (元 常)
                      • Fujitaka ( 藤 孝 ; 1534–1610) see below Higo-Hosokawa
    • 3. Morouji (師 氏)
      • Ujiharu (氏 春), son of Morouji
    • 4. Yorisada (頼 貞)
      • Akiuji (顯 氏; † 1352), son of Yorisada
      • Jōzen (定 禅), son of Yorisada


  • other members who have to be connected above:
  • Mochiharu (持 春; 1400–1466)
      • Masaharu (政 春; 1456-1518)
  • Shigeyuki (成 之; 1443–1511)
    • Yoshiharu (義 春; 1468–1495)

Higo-Hosokawa

Higo-Hosokawa Family Crest: Nine Celestial Bodies ( 細 川 九 曜 )
Kutsuki residence in Edo

The Higo-Hosokawa ( 肥 後 細 川 家 , Higo Hosokawa-ke ), usually simply called Hosokawa, continued the Hosokawa lineage, beginning with Fujitaka , an adopted son of the Hosokawa Mototsune ( 細 川 元 常 ). With an income of 540,000 koku , the Hosokawa were among the great Tozama daimyos of the Edo period .

genealogy

  • Fujitaka ( 藤 孝 also 幽 斎 , Yūsai (1534–1610))
    • Tadaoki ( 忠 興 ; 1563–1646), husband of the Hosokawa Gracia
      • Tadatoshi ( 忠利 ; 1586-1641), laid the Suizenji Park on
        • Mitsunao ( 光 尚 ; 1616–1650)
          • Tsunatoshi ( 綱 利 ; 1643–1717) (1)
          • Toshishige ( 利 重 ; 1647–1687) (2)
      • Tatsutaka ( 立 孝 ; 1615–1645)
        • Yukitaka ( 行 孝 ; 1637–1690)
          • Aritaka ( 有 孝 ; 1676–1730) (3)
    • Okimoto ( 興 元 ; 1647–1687)
      • Okimasa ( 興昌 ; 1647–1687)
        • Okitaka ( 興隆 ; 1647–1687)
(1)Main line in Kumamoto-han , 540,000 Koku.
(2)Branch line in Takase-han ( 高 瀬 藩 ), 35,000 Koku
(3)Branch line in Uto-han ( 宇 土 藩 ), 30,000 Koku
(4)Branch line in Yatabe-han ( 谷 田 部 藩 ), 16,300 Koku

While the branch lines were satisfied with a permanent house ( 陣 屋 , jin'ya ), the Hosokawa left the castle Yatsushiro ( 八 代 城 ) that had fallen to them to the elder Matsui and his family.

The Hosokawa family maintains a museum in Tokyo with historical family property, the Eisei Bunko ( 永清 文庫 ). The museum, with its 6000 objects from seven centuries (including eight national treasures) and 48,000 documents, is open to the public.

The current (18th) head of the house is Hosokawa Morihiro (* 1938), who was the 79th Prime Minister of Japan between 1993 and 1994 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 細 川 . In: デ ジ タ ル 大 辞 泉 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved December 4, 2016 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ T. Furusawa: Kamon Daicho . Kin'ensha, nd, ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 35.
  3. ↑ Excerpt from the map of the district "Daimyo koji" from approx. 1850.
  4. ↑ M. Miura (ed.): Shiro to jinya soran. Saikoku-hen . Gakken, 2006, ISBN 4-05-604379-5 .

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Hosokawa Klan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files