Mōri (clan, Saiki)

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Mōri coat of arms (arrow quiver in a circle)
Residence of the Mōri in Edo

The Mōri ( Japanese 毛利氏 , Mōri-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) from the province of Owari , which was derived from the Uda-Genji via Namazue Takahisa. The family initially called itself Mori ( 森 ), then changed the name to Mōri, but is not related to the more important Mōri in Kanazawa . With an income of 20,000 Koku , the Mōri residing in Saiki ( Ōita Prefecture ) belonged to the smaller Tozama daimyo of the Edo period .

genealogy

  • Takamasa ( 高 政 ; 1556–1628) sided with Toyotomi Hideyoshi , took part in the Korean campaign and in 1594 received the Saiki ( Bungo ) domain with 60,000 koku. In 1600 he joined the opponents Tokugawa Ieyasu , who left him in office after his victory but reduced his income to 20,000 koku. He and his descendants resided in Saiki until 1868. The last daimyo was
  • Takaaki ( 高謙 ; 1840–1876). After 1868 Vice Count .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 157.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the "Atago-minami" district map from approx. 1850.

literature

  • Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
  • Yamauchi, Junji: Saiki-jo , in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .