Tanaka (clan)
The Tanaka ( Japanese 田中氏 , Tanaka-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) , which was derived from the Tachibana and played a role until the beginning of the Edo period .
genealogy
- Yoshimasa ( 吉 政 ; 1548-1609) served Oda Nobunaga , then Toyotomi Hideyoshi , who enfeoffed him with Hachiman'yama in Ōmi province in 1583 , with an income of 30,000 koku . In 1590 he was transferred to Okazaki ( Mikawa Province ) with 50,000, later 100,000 Koku. As an advisor to Hideyoshi's son Hidetsugu, he informed Tokugawa Ieyasu of his ambitious plans. After the Battle of Sekigahara he gave him Chikugo Province as a fiefdom of Yanagawa with an income of 320,000 koku.
- Tadamasa ( 忠 政 ; 1585–1620), Yoshimasa's son, died without offspring. Thereupon the fief fell back to the Shogun, who transferred it as the Kurume fief to the Arima .
literature
- Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yamanouchi, Junji: Kurume-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
- ↑ 田中吉 政 . In: 日本 大 百科全書 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved March 26, 2016 (Japanese).