Ogasawara Nagashige

Family coat of arms of the Ogasawara.

Ogasawara Nagashige ( Japanese 小笠原長重 ; * June 5, 1650 ; † September 19, 1732 ) was a Japanese daimyo (prince) from a branch of the Ogasawara family during the Edo period .

biography

Ogasawara Nagashige was born on June 5, 1650 (according to the old calendar on the 7th day of the 5th month in the 3rd year of Keian) as the second son of Ogasawara Naganori ( 小笠原長矩 ).

Ogasawara Nagashige was a senior member of hatamoto - Samurai . In 1690 he succeeded his older brother Nagasuke daimyō of the fiefdom ( han ) Yoshida in the province of Mikawa and received the offices of Sōshaban-bugyō ( 奏者番奉行 ; to German "Commissioner for ceremonies") and those of Jisha-bugyō ( 寺社奉行 ; to German "Commissioner for temples and shrines ") within the shogunate . From October 17, 1691 to May 15, 1702 he was governor of Kyōto ( Kyōto shoshidai ). In 1697 he became Rōjū in the Shogunate and exchanged his old fiefdom for the wealthier Iwatsuki in Musashi Province . In 1710 he retired and abdicated in favor of his son Nagahiro . In 1711 this Ogasawara branch was entrusted with the fief of Kakegawa ( Tōtōmi province ).

In addition to the functions mentioned, Nagashige received the ceremonial title of Sado (Etchū) no Kami (to German " Provincial Governor of Sado ( Etchū )") from the imperial court .

reception

Ogasawara Nagashige's name appears in the historical work Toen shōsetsu ( 兎園小説 , "Tales of the Rabbit Garden") by Kyokutei Bakin from 1825. There it is said that in Nagashiges administrative district a Utsuro-bune was washed ashore on a beach on the east coast . However, this claim could be refuted, the Ogasawara family never had direct contact with the coastal residents.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b E. Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle, Rutland 1972 (3rd edition). ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
↑ ^a ^b 小笠原長重 . In: デジタル版日本人名大辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved January 3, 2014 (Japanese).
↑ Eva-Maria Meyer: Japan's imperial court in the Edo period: with special consideration of the years 1846 to 1867 . LIT Verlag, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-8258-3939-7 , p. 215 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Engelbert Kaempfer : Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed . University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1999, ISBN 0-8248-2066-5 , pp. 442 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Kazuo Tanaka: Did a close encounter of the Third Kind occur on a Japanese beach in 1803? In: Skeptical Inquirer , Vol. 24, No. 4, July / August 2000, ISSN 0194-6730 , pp. 37-44.

personal data
SURNAME	Ogasawara, Nagashige
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	小笠原長重 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese daimyo
DATE OF BIRTH	June 5, 1650
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edo
DATE OF DEATH	September 19, 1732

[Papinot-1] A ^b E. Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle, Rutland 1972 (3rd edition). ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .

[kotobank-2] 小笠原長重 . In: デジタル版日本人名大辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved January 3, 2014 (Japanese).

[3] Eva-Maria Meyer: Japan's imperial court in the Edo period: with special consideration of the years 1846 to 1867 . LIT Verlag, Münster 1999, ISBN 3-8258-3939-7 , p. 215 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[4] Engelbert Kaempfer : Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed . University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1999, ISBN 0-8248-2066-5 , pp. 442 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[5] Kazuo Tanaka: Did a close encounter of the Third Kind occur on a Japanese beach in 1803? In: Skeptical Inquirer , Vol. 24, No. 4, July / August 2000, ISSN 0194-6730 , pp. 37-44.