Terazawa (clan)

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The Terazawa ( Japanese 寺 沢 氏 , Terazawa-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) , which was derived from Ki no Haseo (紀 長 谷 雄, 845-912).

genealogy

  • Hirotaka (広 高; 1563-1633), who was also called Masanari, served Toyotomi Hideyoshi , who gave him karatsu in the province of Hizen with 80,000 koku after the Kyushu campaign in 1587 . He was governor of Nagasaki and took part in the Korean campaign . In 1600 he fought on the side of Tokugawa Ieyasu and was rewarded with the Amakusa Islands . Associated with this was an increase in his income to 120,000 koku. Hirotaka was baptized in 1596, but when the order to persecute Christians came, he revoked and participated in the persecution.
  • Katataka (堅 高, 1609–1647), Hirataka's son, caused the Shimabara uprising through his tyrannical rule . The uprising was finally suppressed with difficulty, and Katataka was deposed in 1638. He later became insane and died by suicide in a temple in Edo . The Terazawa ended as a daimyo.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ikeda, Koichi: Karatsu-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .

literature

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