Katō (clan)

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Coat of arms of the Katō (snake eye)
Coat of arms of the Niiya-Kato
Coat of arms of the Minakuchi-Kato
Ōzu-Katō residence in Edo

The Katō ( Japanese 加藤 氏 , Katō-shi ) were families of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) from the province of Mino , which was derived from Fujiwara no Kagemichi. With an income of 60,000 Koku , the Katō residing in Ōzu ( Ehime Prefecture ) belonged to the larger Tozama daimyō of the Edo period .

genealogy

The two Katō branches, the Mitsuyasu branch and Yoshiakira branch can be traced back to a common ancestor, Kagekado ( 景 廉 , † 1221). As Fujiwara descendants, both families have the wisteria ( fuji ) and the snake eye ( ja-no-me ) as coat of arms, the former rising wisteria, the latter falling, also with the symbol 加 .

Mitsuyasu branch

  • Mitsuyasu ( 光 泰 ; 1537–1595) served first Oda Nobunaga , then Toyotomi Hideyoshi , who gave him the Takashima ( Ōmi ) domain with 20,000 koku. In 1590 his income was increased to 240,000 koku. Mitsuyasu died during the Korean campaign .
  • Sadayasu ( 定 泰 ; 1581–1624), son of Mitsuyasu, received Kurono ( Mino ) with 40,000 koku after his death . In 1610 he was transferred to Yonago ( Hōki ), then in 1617 to Ōzu ( Iyo ), where he and his descendants resided until 1868. The last daimyo was
  • Yasuaki ( 泰 秋 ; 1846–1922), after 1868 vice count.

Secondary branch

  • Naoyasu ( 直 泰 ) founded a branch that resided from 1624 to 1868 in a permanent house ( jinya ) in Niiya (Iyo) with 10,000 koku. After 1868 Vice Count.

Yoshiaki branch

  • Yoshiaki / Yoshiakira ( 嘉明 ; 1563–1631) initially served Hideyoshi, whom he accompanied on his Korean campaign . He commanded the fleet together with Tōdō Takatora . Upon his return, he joined Ieyasu and took part in the Battle of Sekigahara . He was then transferred from Matsuzaki (Iyo) with 10,000 koku to Matsuyama (Iyo) with 20,000 koku. After Gamō Tadasato's death, he received Aizu-Wakamatsu ( Mutsu ) with 400,000 Koku.
  • Akinari ( 明 成 ), Yoshiaki's son, was deposed in 1643 for bad treatment of his subjects.
  • Akitomo ( 明 友 ), Akinari's son, received Yoshimizu (Iwami) with 10,000 koku after his father's dismissal in recognition of his grandfather's performance. His descendants were successively transferred to Minakuchi (Ōmi) with 20,000 koku in 1682, to Mibu (Shimotsuke) and finally back to Minakuchi with 25,000 koku, where the family resided until 1868. Then Vice Count.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Today part of the city of Gifu .
  2. ↑ Today part of the city Ōzu .
  3. ↑ Today part of the city of Kōka .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 231.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the "Asakusa" district map from approx. 1850.
  3. ↑ Takahashi, Ken'ichi: Kamon, hatamoto hachiman ku. Akita shoten, 1976.

literature

  • Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
  • Ikeda, Koichi: Ōsu-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
  • Miyaji, Saichiro (Ed.): Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanshu-tachi. Nishinihon-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997. ISBN 978-4-7959-1906-8 .