Suwa (clan)

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Coat of arms ( Mon ) of the Suwa clan: oak leaves.
Suwa residence in Edo

The Suwa ( Japanese 諏 訪 氏 , Suwa-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from Minamoto Mitsumasa , a brother of Mitsunaka ( Seiwa Genji ). With an income of 30,000 koku , the Suwa residing in Suwa ( Nagano prefecture ) belonged to the smaller Fudai daimyo in the Edo period .

genealogy

  • Morishige (盛 重;), descendant of Mitsumasa in the 9th generation, was the first to take the name Suwa. Especially in the Sengoku period , the Suwa often clashed with their neighbors from Kai province , the Takeda clan, in armed conflicts.
  • Yorishige (寄 茂; † 1542) fought for a long time against Takeda Shingen , who wanted to take over his domains. After both sides made peace, he went to Kofu, where he was treacherously arrested by Itagaki Nobukata. He then committed suicide.

The Suwa served the Takeda for some time as a vassal house, but after the crushing defeat of the Takeda in the Battle of Nagashino they rose again to the rank of independent feudal lordship, Sengoku daimyo

  • Yoritada (頼 忠: 1536-1606), who fought on the side of Tokugawa Ieyasu , initially received 1592 Sōsha ( Kōzuke province ) with 15,000 koku , then was able to return to the ( han ) Suwa in Shinano province at the beginning of now in 1601 with his income increased to 30,000 koku. The Suwa resided there at Takashima Castle (Shinano) until the Meiji Restoration, after which they received the title of Vice Count.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 81.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the map of the district "Nihonbashi-kita" from approx. 1850.

literature

  • Papinot, E .: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan . Reprinted by Tuttle, 1977 edition of 1911 edition . ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
  • Takada: Takashima-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 .

Web links

  • "Suwa-shi" on Harimaya.com (March 1, 2008)
  • "Takashima-han" on Edo 300 HTML (March 1, 2008)
  • [1] (Samurai Archives, October 17, 2013)
  • [2] (Google E-Book: Yasushi Inoue: "The Samurai Banner of Fu-Rin-Ka-Zan", p. 25 (Book about the Takeda campaigns) Chapter: "The Conquest of Suwa")
  • [3] (Google E-book: Kären Wigen "The Making of a Japanese Periphery 1750-1920", p. 32 (about the unification of the Suwa area on Lake Suwa by the Suwa in the early Edo period))