Tōdō (clan)

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Tōdō coat of arms
(Tōdō ivy leaves)
Tōdō residence in Edo
(near Akihabara station )
N = residence of the secondary branch.

The Tōdō ( Japanese 藤 堂 氏 , Tōdō-shi ) from the Settsu Province were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from Prince Toneri-shinnō (676-735), son of the Emperor Temmu . With an income of 310,000 Koku , the Tōdō residing in Tsu (Mie) belonged to the great Tozama daimyō of the Edo period . They are named after the village of Todo (now Kora ) in the district Inukami the Ōmi Province . They ruled over the principality (-han) Tsu or Anotsu with the last (status: Bakumatsu / Meiji-Restauration) possessions in the provinces of Ise and Iga (later the prefectures (-ken) Anotsu / Tsu and Watarai ) as well as Yamato and Yamashiro and the Hisai branch established in the 17th century .

Some members

  • Takatora (高 虎 ; 1556-1630) served Oda Nobunaga , then Toyotomi Hideyoshi , who brought himin touchwith his brother Hidenaga . After his death in 1591 Takatora shaved his head and withdrew to the Kōya-san . But Hideyoshi called him back and made him advisor to Hidenaga's heir, namely Hidetoshi . During the Korean campaign , Takatora commanded part of the Japanese fleet. When Hidetoshi died in 1594, he returned to the Kōya. Hideyoshi called him again and gave him the fief of Uwajima ( Iyo Province ) with an income of 70,000 koku . After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, half the province of Iyo was transferred to him. In 1602 he began building his headquarters in Imabari with 200,000 koku, while Uwajima and Ōzu remained adjacent . In 1608 Takatora left Shikoku, as the whole province of Iga and two counties in the ( province of Ise ) with 320,000 koku had been transferred to him. The main seat then became the more conveniently located Tsu, Ueno Castle in Iga became a secondary seat.

The Tōdō clan resided at Tsu Castle until the Meiji Restoration with the honorary title Izumi no kami . The last daimyo was

  • Takayuki ( 高 猷 ; 1813–1895). He initially stood on the Tokugawa side, then switched to the side of the new government, and retired into private life in 1871.

A branch line that descended from Tōdō Takamichi (a grandson of Takatora) resided from 1632 to 1868 in a permanent house ( jinya ) in nearby Hisai ( 久居 ) with 53,000 koku. After 1868 Vice Count .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Today Hisai is a district of Tsu.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 130.
  2. ↑ From the Shitaya district map
  3. ↑ 藤 堂 氏 . In: ブ リ タ ニ カ 国際 大 百科 事 典 小 項目 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved February 4, 2015 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ National Museum of Japanese History : 旧 高 旧 領取 調帳 デ ー タ ベ ー ス , entries for 津 藩
  5. ↑ Miyaji, Saichiro (ed.): Tsu-han. In: Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanshu-tachi. Nishinihon-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997, ISBN 978-4-7959-1905-1 .

literature

  • Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
  • Miura, Masayuki (Ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .