Matsukura (clan)

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Matsukura Coat of Arms
(Nine Celestial Bodies)

The Matsukura ( Japanese 松 倉 氏 , Matsukura-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) from the province of Yamato , which was derived from the Fujiwara .

genealogy

  • Nobushige ( 信 重 ; 1522–1586) served the Tsutsui in Iga Province .
  • Shigemasa ( 重 政 ; 1574-1630) joined Toyotomi Hideyoshi , who gave him Futami Castle in Harima Province in 1587 . In 1600 he was transferred to Gojō ( Yamato Province ) with 25,000 Koku and then in 1615 to Shimabara Castle with 60,000 Koku. In 1624 some of his ships were driven south by the wind until they landed on Luzon . There they exchanged information with the residents that Shigemasu thought it would be good to equip an expedition there. To the shogunate, whose permission he needed, he claimed that he would be as successful as Shimazu Ichisa, who had defeated the kingdom of the Ryūkyū Islands 20 years earlier . It appears that Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu gave his consent to the enterprise, but Shigemasa died prematurely.

Individual evidence

  1. Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 .

Remarks

  1. In Papinot Shigeharu ( 重 治 ; † 1638).

literature

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