Niwa (clan)

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Niwa coat of arms (crossed beams).
Niwa residence in Edo (near the Hie shrine ).

The Niwa ( Japanese 丹羽 氏 , Niwa-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from the Fujiwara . With an income of 100,000 Koku , the Niwa residing in Nihonmatsu ( Fukushima Prefecture ) belonged to the larger Tozama daimyō of the Edo period .

genealogy

  • Nagamasa ( 長 政 )
  • Nagahide ( 長 秀 , 1535–1585), Nagamasa's son, served Oda Nobunaga , who married him to the daughter of his older brother Nobuhiro and gave him the Sawayama-han in Ōmi province with an income of 50,000 koku in 1571 . In 1576 Nagahide was entrusted with the construction of Azuchi Castle , for which he received the domain of Obama in the province of Wakasa .
  • Nagashige ( 長 重 , 1571–1637), Nagahide's son, married a daughter of Nobunaga on Hideyoshi's instructions and resided in Fuchū ( Echizen Province ) from 1583 , taking over Obama-han after his father's death. In 1598 Nagashige was transferred to Komatsu in Kaga Province with an income of 100,000 koku. He received the title Kaga no kami . While preparing for the Battle of Sekigahara , Nagashige was involved in arguments with his neighbor Maeda Toshinaga and was slow to respond to Tokugawa Ieyasu's call . Ieyasu dropped him off after the victory and had him monitored in Edo . After a few years, however, Nagashige received the small fief of Futto ( Hitachi Province ) with 10,000 koku, then in 1619 the Izumi ( Mutsu Province ) with 20,000 koku and finally in 1622 the fief of Tanakura (Mutsu) with 50,000 koku.
  • Mitsushige ( 光 重 ), Nagashige's son, was transferred to Nihommatsu (Mutsu) in 1642 with an income of 100,000 koku .

The Niwa ruled in Nihommatsu until the Meiji Restoration . Ruled in the final stages of the Tokugawa period

  • Nagakuni ( 長 国 , 1834–1904). In 1868 he participated in the resistance of the Tokugawa loyalists in northern Japan against the new government. After the defeat, he left the management of the Han to his adopted son Nagahiro.
  • Nagahiro ( 長 祐 , 1856–1889) became vice count as head of the house under the new nobility order .

Isshiki-Niwa

Miwa fan.

An unrelated Niwa clan ( 丹羽 氏 ) , with an income of 10,000 koku, much smaller , which was derived from Ashikaga Yasuuji ( Seiwa Genji ) via the Isshiki clan . These Niwa owned a permanent house (jin'ya) in Ibo ( Mikawa Province ) from 1603 to 1638 , one in Iwamura ( Mino Province ) from 1638 to 1742 and then one in Mikusa ( Harima Province ). After 1868 the head of the house received the title Vice Count.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei ( 奥 羽 越 列 藩 同盟 ) was an association of 25 Han from the provinces of Mutsu ( 陸 奥 ), Dewa ( 出 羽 ) and Echigo ( 越 後 ) under the leadership of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa . The union was defeated by the armed forces of the new government.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 200.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the map of the district "Sotosakurada" from approx. 1850.
  3. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō. Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 69.

literature

  • Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
  • Saichiro Miyaji (Ed.): Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanchu-tachi. Tokoku-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997, ISBN 978-4-7959-1906-8 .