Kutsuki (clan)

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Coat of arms of the Kutsuki
Kutsuki residence in Edo

The Kutsuki ( Japanese 朽木 氏 , Kutsuki-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ). The Kutsuki, who last lived in Fukuchiyama ( Kyoto Prefecture ), were among the smaller Fudai daimyo of the Edo period with an income of 32,000 koku .

Sasaki Nobutsuna ( 佐 々 木 信 綱 , 1181-1242) received after the Jōkyū War in 1221 for his services the fiefdom Kutsuki in the province of Ōmi and his great-grandson Yoshitsuna ( 義 sich ) named himself after this.

genealogy

  • Tanetsuna ( 稙 綱 ) was a loyal vassal of Ashikaga Yoshiharu at the beginning of the 16th century .
  • Mototsuna ( 元 綱 ; 1549-1632), Tanetsuna's grandson, had three sons, among whom he divided his property. The oldest, Nobutsuna ( 宣 綱 ; 1582–1662), who continued the main branch, received 6350 koku, the other two, including Tanetsuna II, received 2000 koku each.
  • Tanetsuna II. ( 稙 綱 ; 1605-1660) received in 1636 an increase in income from the family residence Kutsuki, which he became a daimyo and founded a branch of the family. In 1647 he was transferred to Kanuma ( Shimotsuke ) and then in 1649 to Tsuchiura ( Hitachi ) with 30,000 koku.
  • Tanemasa ( 種 昌 ; 1643–1714), son of Tanetsuna II, was transferred to Fukuchiyama ( Tamba ) with 32,000 koku in 1669 , where he and his descendants resided until 1868. Then Vice Count .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Today a district of Takashima .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 242.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the map of the district "Soto-Sakurada" from approx. 1850.
  3. ↑ 朽木 氏 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 典 第 ２ 版 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved June 5, 2015 (Japanese).

literature

  • Takahashi, Ken'ichi: Kamon - Hatamoto Hachiman koma. Akita Shoten, 1976.
  • Owada, Yasutsune: Tsuchiura-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 .
  • Kato, M .: Fukichiyama-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (Ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .