Ukita (clan)

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The Ukita ( Japanese 宇 喜 多 氏 , Ukita-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ) , which were derived from Kojima Takanori ( 児 島 高 徳 ; 14th century) and thus from the Seiwa-Genji .

genealogy

Main line

  • Yoshiie ( 能 家 ; † 1534) was a vassal of the Urakami Muramune, daimyo of the Mimasaka province . Muramune's son Munekage had him killed.
  • Naoie ( 直 家 ; 1529–1582), Yoshiie's grandson, first served Munekage, but then turned against him, who had to flee to Sanuki Province . Then Naoie broke away from Nakayama Nobumasa and his brother-in-law Tanigawa Hisataka and thus became the sole ruler in the province of Bizen . When he then had to defend himself against the Mōri, he asked Oda Nobunaga for help, who confirmed him in his possession.
  • Hideie ( 秀 家 ; 1573–1655) was still a child at his father's death and was raised by Toyotomi Hideyoshi . When this made peace with the Mōri, he gave the province of Mimasaka to the Ukita. At the time of the Korean campaign , Hideyoshi named Hideie supreme general.
    After Hideyoshi's death, Hideie faced Tokugawa Ieyasu and captured Fushimi Castle . When the two armies met in Mino Province , Hideie planned a night attack, but his partner Ishida Kazuchige refused. After being defeated in the Battle of Sekigahara , Hideie fled to Satsuma Province. He lost his Okayama domain with an income of 475,000 koku.
    At the beginning of 1603 Shimizu Ichisa revealed Hideie's hiding place to Ieyasu, who - just become a shogun - first sentenced him to death, but then banished him into exile on the island of Hachijōjima with his son Hidekatsu . When Hideie arrived on the island, he shaved his head and called himself Raifu. He only died there in old age.

Sideline

  • Tadaie ( 忠 家 ), a brother of Naoie.
  • Akiie ( 詮 家 ; † 1616), Tadaie's son, served Naoie, then Hideie and finally Tokugawa Ieyasu , who gave him the Tsuwano domain as a fief with 30,000 Koku after the Battle of Sekigahara. He then took the name Sakazaki Naomori ( 坂 崎 直 盛 ). According to tradition, he freed Ieyasu's granddaughter Senhime during the siege of Osaka , but when he did not receive her promised hand, he attempted her robbery and died.

Individual evidence

  1. Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 107.
  2. 坂 崎 直 盛 . In: 日本 大 百科全書 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved May 30, 2016 (Japanese).

literature

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