Okudaira (clan)
The Okudaira ( Japanese 奥 平 氏 , Okudaira-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) from the Mikawa province , which was derived from the Murakami Genji via the Akamatsu . With an income of 100,000 Koku , the Okudaira residing in Nakatsu ( Ōita Prefecture ) belonged to the larger Fudai daimyō of the Edo period .
genealogy
- Sadayoshi ( 定 能 , 1555-1615).
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Nobumasa ( 信 昌 , 1555-1615) left the Takeda together with his father Sadayoshi and switched to Tokugawa Ieyasu as the employer. Takeda Katsuyori , enraged, had Nobumasa's wife killed, but Ieyasu gave him his eldest daughter, Kame-hime, and made him lord of Nagashino ( Mikawa ). There he was soon besieged by Katsuyori, but Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga appalled him with heavy losses. In 1582 he fought the Takeda together with Sakai Tadatsugu. In 1590 he received the fief of Miyasaki ( Kōzuke ) with 30,000 koku. In 1600 he became governor of Kyōto , a year later he was transferred to Kanō ( Mino ) with 100,000 koku.
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Iemasa ( 家 昌 , 1577-1614) was Nobumasa's eldest son. From 1601 he and his descendants resided in Utsunomiya ( Shimotsuke ), from 1619 in Koga ( Shimōsa ), from 1622 again in Utsunomiya, from 1668 in Yamagata ( Dewa ) from 1685 again in Utsunomiya, from 1697 in Miyazu ( Tango ) and finally from 1717 in Nakatsu ( Buzen ) with 100,000 Koku and the honorary title Daizen no Daibu ("Director of the large table"). This was followed by Masashige ( 昌 成 ), Masaatsu ( 昌 敦 ), Masaka ( 昌 鹿 ), Masao ( 昌 男 ), Masataka ( 昌 高 ), Masanobu ( 昌 暢 ), Masamichi ( 昌 猷 ) and Masamoto ( 昌 服 ). The last daimyo of this line was
- Masayuki ( 昌 邁 , 1855-1884). After 1868 he received the title Graf .
- Tadamasa ( 忠 政 , 1580-1614), Nobumasa's second son, inherited the fiefdom of Kanō, but he died before his father, so that this fiefdom reverted to the shogunate.
- Tadaakira or Tadaaki ( 忠明 , 1583–1644), Nobumasa's third son, was adopted by his grandfather Ieyasu and was given the name Matsudaira for himself and his descendants, so that the descendants are continued as (Okudaira) Matsudaira .
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Iemasa ( 家 昌 , 1577-1614) was Nobumasa's eldest son. From 1601 he and his descendants resided in Utsunomiya ( Shimotsuke ), from 1619 in Koga ( Shimōsa ), from 1622 again in Utsunomiya, from 1668 in Yamagata ( Dewa ) from 1685 again in Utsunomiya, from 1697 in Miyazu ( Tango ) and finally from 1717 in Nakatsu ( Buzen ) with 100,000 Koku and the honorary title Daizen no Daibu ("Director of the large table"). This was followed by Masashige ( 昌 成 ), Masaatsu ( 昌 敦 ), Masaka ( 昌 鹿 ), Masao ( 昌 男 ), Masataka ( 昌 高 ), Masanobu ( 昌 暢 ), Masamichi ( 昌 猷 ) and Masamoto ( 昌 服 ). The last daimyo of this line was
Individual evidence
- ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, undated, ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , pp.
- ↑ Excerpt from the Kyobashi-minami district map from around 1850.
literature
- Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
- Miyaji, Saichiro (Ed.): Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanshu-tachi. Nishinihon-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997. ISBN 978-4-7959-1906-8 .