Imagawa (clan)
The Imagawa family ( Japanese 今 川 氏 , Imagawa-uji ) was one of the most influential families of the Japanese Sengoku period . However, she had already been entrusted with duties on behalf of the imperial court in the Muromachi period and belonged to the older noble families.
Representative
Its most famous representative, Imagawa Yoshimoto is a daimyo of the middle Sengoku period (see also Sengoku daimyo ) and was the feudal warlord who ruled the province of Suruga , province of Tōtōmi and province of Mikawa . He lived from 1519 to 1560. He is said to have had connections to the family of a half-brother of Takeda Shingen , Takeda Nobuzane . His son Imagawa Ujizane was an influential prince with an eventful life and an ardent cultural worker ( Waka , Renga , Kemari ) and was one of the most outstanding figures in Japan at that time.
- Kuniuji Imagawa
- Morouji Imagawa
- Norikuni Imagawa
- Noriuji Imagawa
- Ujiie Imagawa
- Yasumori Imagawa
- Norimasa Imagawa
- Noritada Imagawa
- Yoshitada Imagawa
- Ujichika Imagawa
- Ujiteru Imagawa
- Imagawa Yoshimoto
- Imagawa Ujizane
family tree
Web links
- "Suruga Imagawa-shi" on Harimaya.com (July 12, 2008) (Japanese)
- Samurai Archives
literature
- Arimatsu Yūgaku: 戦 国 大名 今 川 氏 の 研究 (about "Research on the Imagawa Sengoku Daimyō"), Yoshikawa Kōbunkan Publishing House, 1994, ISBN 4-642-02734-3 .
- Nagakura Chieko: 戦 国 大名 駿 河 今 川 氏 の 研究 (about "Research on the Imagawa Suruga Daimyō"), Tōkyōdō Shuppan, 1995, ISBN 4-490-20277-6 .
- Owada Tetsuo: 今 川 氏 の 研究 (about "Research on the Imagawa"), Seibundō Shuppan, 2001, ISBN 4-7924-0492-4 .
- Kubota Masaki: 戦 国 大名 今 川 氏 と 領 国 支配 (about "The Sengoku Daimyō of the Imagawa and the territory control"), Publishing House Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 2005, ISBN 4-642-02839-0 .
- Ōishi Manabu: 高家 今 川 氏 の 知 行 所 支配 江 戸 周 辺 を 事例 と し て (about "The rule of the Imagawa-kōke - using the example of the Edo area"), Ed. Tokyo Gakugei University Research Society on Japan Pre-Modern History, Meicho Shuppan, 2002, ISBN 4-626-01665-0 .
- Stephen Turnbull, Samurai: The World of the Warrior, London, Osprey Publishing, 2003, p. 224.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Louis Frederic: Japan Encyclopedia. into English Translated by Käthe Roth. Harvard University Press, p. 382.
- ↑ The Journal of Socho. Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-3506-9 , p. 181.