Sakakibara (clan)

Coat of arms of the Sakakibara
(Sakakibara variant of the Genji wheel)

Sakakibara residence

The Sakakibara ( Japanese 榊 原 氏 , Sakakibara-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from Nikki Sadanaga ( Seiwa-Genji ). With an income of 150,000 Koku , the Sakakibara , who last resided in Takada ( Niigata Prefecture ), were among the great Fudai daimyo of the Edo period .

genealogy

• Toshinaga ( 利 長 ), Sadanaga's son, settled in Sakakibara ( province of Ise ; today part of Tsu ) and named himself after this place.
• Yasumasu ( 康 政 ) served Ieyasu and received the Tatebayashi - han ( Kōzuke ) in 1590 with an income of 100,000 koku . His descendants resided in the following castles:
  • from 1643 on Shirakawa (Mutsu)
  • from 1649 on Himeji ( Harima )
  • from 1667 on Murakami ( Echigo )
  • from 1704 back in Himeji and
  • from 1741 to 1868 on Takada (Echigo).
• Masataka ( 政 敬 , 1843–1927) was the last daimyo of this family. From the Meiji period , the bosses of the house held the title Vice Count .

Remarks

1. ↑ The Genji wheel has eight spokes.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 151.
2. ↑ Excerpt from the map of the district "Sotosakurada" from approx. 1850.
3. ↑ Miyaji, Saichiro (ed.): Takada-han. In: Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanshu-tachi. Higashinihon-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997, ISBN 978-4-7959-1906-8 .

literature

• Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .