Matsumae (clan)

Matsumae family coat of arms: Takeda diamonds in a circle
( 丸に武田菱 )

The Matsumae clan ( Japanese 松前氏 , Matsumae-shi ) resided in Matsumae in the Grenzlehen ( Han ) Matsumae on the Oshima Peninsula of Hokkaidō . They belonged to the smaller Tozama daimyo .

genealogy

Matsumae Daimyo around 1850

The line begins with a son of Takeda Kuninobu , Nobuhiro ( 信広 ), who settled on Hokkaidō in 1442 . There he helped the governor Kakizaki Shuri-tayū to suppress the Ainu uprisings . He married his daughter and called himself Kakizaki ( 蠣崎 ).

Suehiro ( 季広 ), great-grandson of Nobuhiro, made laws for the Ainu and encouraged them to trade. One could call him the first country developer of Hokkaidō.

Yoshihiro ( 慶広 , 1550-1618) submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1587 . He built a castle in the district of Matsumae and named it Fukuyama-jō, changing his name from Kakizaki to Matsumae. He continued his father's colonization and encouraged the Japanese to immigrate to Hokkaidō.

Akihiro ( 章広 ), who could not prevent the appearance of Russians on Hokkaidō, was transferred to Yanagawa ( Mutsu Province ) in 1806 .

Sadahiro ( 定広 ) was able to return to Matsumae in 1821. The family resided there until the Meiji Restoration with an income of 30,000 koku .

In the Meiji period , the Matsumae received the title of vice count, a branch line was appointed barons.

Remarks

↑ Count Resanov , annoyed by lengthy negotiations with the shogunate, had initiated Russian looting of Hokkaidō in 1806. He put a strain on the Japanese-Russian relations for years.

literature

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

[1] Count Resanov , annoyed by lengthy negotiations with the shogunate, had initiated Russian looting of Hokkaidō in 1806. He put a strain on the Japanese-Russian relations for years.