Matsura (clan)

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Matsura coat of arms
Another coat of arms
(Hirado oak leaves)
Matsura residence in Edo

The Matsura ( Japanese 松浦 氏 , Matsura-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) from the province of Hizen , which was derived from Minamoto no Tōru (822-895), son of the Emperor Saga . Minamoto no Hisashi, Toru's great grandson, settled in Matsuura (also Matsura) and took this name. With an income of 60,000 Koku , the Matsura residing at Hirado Castle ( Nagasaki Prefecture ) belonged to the larger Tozama daimyo of the Edo period . The province of Iki with the island of Iki also belonged to the fiefdom ( han ) Hirado .

genealogy

Main branch

  • Yoshi ( 義 ), Hisashi's 18th generation descendant, shaved his head and built a temple in Hirado when Shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori was murdered in 1441.
  • ...
  • Takanobu ( 隆 信 ; 1592–1637)
  • Shigenobu ( 鎮 信 ; 1549-1614), Takanobu's son, accompanied Toyotomi Hideyoshi on his 1587 campaign against the Satsuma clan . Two years later he shaved his head and took the name Sōsei-hōnin. He later took part in the Korean campaign under Konishi Yukinaga and assisted Kobayakawa Takakage in the victorious battles against the Chinese. Shigenobu was the first Tozama daimyo of the Hirado feud.
  • Atsunobu ( 篤信 ; † 1637), Shigenobu's grandson, was descended on his mother's side from the Christian daimyo Ōmura Sumitada and was baptized. However, he later became a persecutor of Christians. His descendants resided in Hirado with the honorary title Iki no kami until 1868. Then Graf.

Secondary branch

Masashi ( 昌 ; 1651–1736), a son of Shigenobu, founded a branch that resided in a permanent house ( jinya ) on Hirado-Shinden with an income of 10,000 koku . After 1868 Vice Count.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , pp. 33 and 88
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the "Asakusa" 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 .
  • Ikeda, Koichi .: Hirado-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 .