Kōriki (clan)

Kōriki coat of arms
( balloon flower in a circle)

The Kōriki ( Japanese 高 力 氏 , Kōriki-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) , who came from the province of Mikawa .

genealogy

• Kiyonaga ( 清 長 ; 1530-1608) was fellow in arms of Tokugawa Ieyasu and was one of the city commissioners ( machi bugyō ) of Sumpu in 1565 and then got the honorary title Kawachi no Kami ( 河内 の 守 ) in 1586 . In 1590, Iwatsuki Castle in Musashi Province received koku with an income of 20,000 .
• Tadafusa ( 忠 房 ; 1583-1655), Kiyonaga's grandson, received Hamamatsu Castle in the Tōtōmi Province in 1619 and then in 1638 Shimabara Castle in the Hizen Province with 40,000 Koku.
• Takanaga ( 高 長 ; 1604–1676), Tadafusa's son, was deposed in 1668 by the shogunate for poor administration and exiled to Sendai . Thus the family lost their daimyo rank .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sugai, Yasuo: Iwatsuki-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 .

literature

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