Sagara (clan)
The Sagara ( Japanese 相 良 氏 , Sagara-shi ) were an old family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) from the province of Higo , which was derived from the Fujiwara .
genealogy
- Sagara Nagayori ( 長 頼 ; 1177-1254) left the village of Sagara in the province of Tōtōmi (today: Sagara district of the city of Makinohara , Shizuoka prefecture ) in 1198 on the instructions of Minamoto Yoritomo , moved to Hitoyoshi and became an area administrator there ( 地頭 , jitō ). In the Muromachi period , the area was expanded towards the provinces of Satsuma and Hyūga .
- Tametsugu ( 為 続 ; 1447–1500) is said to have built the castle in the Sengoku period around 1470.
- Nagatsune ( 長 毎 ; 1469–1518), Tametsugu's son, brought stonemasons from the province of Bungo in 1589 and had the castle expanded.
- Yoshishige ( 義 滋 ; 1489–1546) was able to conquer Ashikita ( 芦 北 ) and was now ruler over the three districts of Kuma ( 球磨 ), Yatsushiro ( 八 代 ) and Ashikita.
- Yoshiharu ( 義 陽 ; 1544–1581) lost the battle of Minamato against Shimazu Yoshihisa in 1581, after which only Kuma remained for the Sagara.
- Yorifusa ( 頼 房 ; 1574-1636), Yoshiharu's son, Toyotomi Hideyoshi submitted in 1587 when he was campaigning against Kyūshū. At the Battle of Sekigahara he initially stood on Hideyoshi's side, but then switched to the Tokugawa . So he was able to keep his property and became the first daimyo of the family.
The Sagara continued to reside in Hitoyoshi until the end of the Tokugawa period . Then they carried the title Vice Count.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ikeda, Koichi: Hitoyoshi-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jin'ya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
literature
- Hitoyoshi rekishi-kan (ed.): Sagara Seike yashiki e . Museum leaflet, undated
- Explanatory board at the castle
- Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .