Sanada (clan)

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Sanada Coat of Arms
(Sanada Six Coins)
Sanada residence in Edo
(near Toranomon = T)

The Sanada ( Japanese 真 田氏 , Sanada-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which came from the Shinano province and which traced back to the Seiwa-Genji . With an income of 100,000 Koku , the Sanada residing in Matsushiro were among the larger Tozama daimyos of the Edo period .

genealogy

  • Yukitaka ( 幸 隆 , 1513–1574), son of Unno Munetsua, settled in Sanada at the beginning of the 16th century and took this name.
  • Masayuki ( 昌幸 , 1544-1608), Yukitaka's son, first served Takeda Shingen , who entrusted him with the Ueda Castle (Shinano). After the defeat of Takeda in 1582, he turned to Tokugawa Ieyasu , but wanted to take his domain from him in order to give it to Hōjō Ujinao , who had helped him in the formation of an alliance against Toyotomi Hideyoshi . Masayuki, upset, asked Uesugi Kagekatsu for help, and defeated both Ujinao and Ieyasu. In 1586 Ieyasu besieged Ueda, but Masayuki was able to make peace with Hideyoshi's support. At the Battle of Sekigahara he sided with Ishida Kazushige but sent his eldest son, Nobuyuki, to side with Ieyasu. After the defeat, Masayuki was sentenced to death, but his son was able to avert the sentence. Masayuki was exiled to Kudoyama ( Kii Province ), where he then died.
    • Nobuyuki ( 信 之 , 1566–1658), eldest son of Masayuki, was taken hostage to Hamamatsu after his father was subjugated. Ieyasu gave him the daughter of the Honda Tadakatsu he had trained as a wife. In the Battle of Sekigahara he fought on the side of Ieyasu and received the castles of Ueda and Numata (Kōzuke province) with an income of 65,000 koku. In 1622 Nobuyuki was transferred to Matsushiro Castle (Shinano) with 100,000 koku. There he and his descendants ruled until the Meiji Restoration .
    • Nobushige ( 信 繁 , 1570–1615), second son of Masayuki, married a daughter of Ōtani Yoshitaka. He served Hideyoshi. In 1600 he got his father to compete against Ieyasu. After the defeat, he too was exiled to Kudoyama. When Ieyasu faced Toyotomi Hideyori , he called Nobushige, but Nobushige refused, went to Osaka and did a lot to defend the castle. He defeated Date Masamune at Hirano, attacked Honda Tadatomo, but eventually found his death on the battlefield.
    • Yukitami ( 幸 民 , 1850-1903) was the last daimyo of the family. After 1868 he received the title Graf .

Remarks

  1. ^ Matsushiro has been part of Nagano since 1966 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 248.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the map of the district "Sotosakurada" from approx. 1850.

literature

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