Matsushita (clan)
The Matsushita ( Japanese 松下 氏 , Matsushita-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) of the Sengoku period from the Mikawa province . They lost their rank as daimyo in 1644.
genealogy
- Yukitsuna ( 之 綱 ; 1537–1598), first served the Imagawa under whom he was lord of the castle of Zudaji ( 頭陀 寺 ), where Toyotomi Hideyoshi served him. Yukitsuna was later a vassal of Tokugawa Ieyasu and finally after Toyotomi's rise to regent ( Kampaku ) this. That also gave him the title Iwami no kami , and in 1590 the fief Kuno ( 久野藩 , Kuno- han ) in the province Tōtōmi with an income of 16,000 Koku .
- Shigetsuna ( 重 綱 ; 1579–1627), second son of Yukitsuna, first resided in Kuno, from 1603 in Kobari, from 1623 in Karasuyama and finally from 1627 in Nihonmatsu with 50,000 Koku.
- Nagatsuna ( 長 綱 ; 1610–1658), Shigetsuna's son, was transferred to Miharu with 30,000 koku in Mutsu province after the death of his father . He expanded the castle there, but was deposed in 1644 due to poor administration, with which this family lost their daimyo rank, and then lived with the Tosa-Yamauchi , his wife's family.
Remarks
- ↑ Named after the Buddhist temple of the same name, today a district of Hamamatsu .
- ↑ Today part of Tsukubamirai
literature
- Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .