Iwaki (clan)

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Iwaki coat of arms
Iwaki residence in Edo

The Iwaki ( Japanese 岩 城 氏 , Iwaki-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from the Taira . With an income of 20,000 Koku , the Iwaki , who last lived in Kameda ( Akita Prefecture ), were among the smaller Tozama daimyo of the Edo period .

genealogy

  • Tsunetaka ( 常 隆 ; 1566–1590) inherited the domain Iwakitaira ( Mutsu ), which his ancestors held for several centuries. After he was defeated by Date Masamune in 1585 and by Satake Yoshishige in 1587 , he joined Toyotomi Hideyoshi .
  • Sadataka ( 貞 隆 ; 1584–1621), a son of Satake Yoshishige, was adopted by Tsunetaka and succeeded him. Since he had joined the opponents of Tokugawa Ieyasu , together with his brother Satake Yoshinobu and Uesugi Kagekatsu, he lost Iwakidaira with 180,000 koku and was transferred to Kameda ( Dewa ) in 1602 . There he and his descendants resided in a permanent house ( jinya ) with 20,000 koku until 1868. Then vice count .

literature

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ "Moon in the Curtain".
  2. ↑ Today a district of Yurihonjō .
  3. ↑ Shortly called Iwaki today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 236.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the "Surugadai" district map from around 1850.