Tsuchiya (clan)

Tsuchiya coat of arms
(three stones set up)

Tsuchiya residence in Edo (Kanda)

The Tsuchiya ( Japanese 土屋 氏 , Tsuchiya-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from the Kammu - Taira . With an income of 90,000 Koku , the Tsuchiya last residing in Tsuchiura ( Ibaraki Prefecture ) belonged to the larger Fudai daimyo of the Edo period .

genealogy

• Tadanao (1585-1612) was appointed daimyo by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1602 .

The family resided successively in Kururi ( Kazusa Province ), from 1669 in Tsuchiura ( Hitachi ), from 1681 in Tanaka ( Suruga ) and from 1688 to 1868 again in Tsuchiura with 90,000 Koku. The last daimyo was

• Shigenao ( 挙 直 , 1852-1892). After 1868 Vice Count .

literature

• Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
• Saichiro Miyaji (Ed.): Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanchu-tachi. Tokoku-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997, ISBN 978-4-7959-1906-8 .
• Miyaji, Saichiro (Ed.): Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanshu-tachi. Higashinihon-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997. ISBN 978-4-7959-1905-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 17
2. ↑ Excerpt from the "Surugadai" district map from around 1850.
3. ↑ 土屋 氏 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 典 第 ２ 版 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved March 26, 2015 (Japanese). 

Remarks

1. ↑ Today a district of Kimitsu
2. ↑ Today a district of Fujieda