Kishu (Han)

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Stake indicating the location of the ancient Kishu-Tokugawa residence.

Kishū ( Japanese 紀 州 藩 , -han ) was a Han ( fiefdom ) in Japan in the Edo period , which existed from 1586 to 1869. It is named after the old province Kii (Kishū), in which it was, today the prefecture Wakayama and the southern part of the prefecture Mie , and the castle town Wakayama as Kii-Wakayama , respectively just as Kii or only as Wakayama . The income of the Han was measured at 555,000 koku .

The daimyō (feudal lords) of Kishū were first the Kuwayama family ( 桑 山 ), at that time the fiefdom was only 20,000 koku. After the Battle of Sekigahara , however, the fiefdom changed into the hands of the Asano ( 浅 野 ) in 1601 and was massively increased to 376,000 koku.

Finally, in 1619, the fief was given to Tokugawa Yorinobu , the tenth son of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and originally feudal lord of Sumpu in the province of Suruga . Thus his line became the Kishū-Tokugawa , one of the three original branch lines of the Tokugawa , the so-called Gosanke . As relatives of the Shogun, the Kishū-Tokugawa were at the highest rank of the Shimpan-Daimyō . The fifth in the line, Yoshimune , was adopted into the parent company in 1716 and Shogun himself, because the main line had no heir. The new liege lord was then Matsudaira Yoriyoshi ( 松 平 頼 致 ), liege lord of Saijō in the province of Iyo , who took the name Tokugawa Munenao .

When the new line of the Tokugawa with the childless Tokugawa Iesada died out, in 1849 a heir from the Kishu line, Tokugawa Yoshitomi, who took the name Iemochi , was reinstated .

List of daimyo

Surname Kanji Term of office Remarks
1 Kuwayama Shigeharu 桑 山 重 晴 1586-1596
2 Kuwayama Kazuharu 桑 山 一 晴 1596-1601 Then daimyō of Yamato-Shinjō 1600–1604
Surname Kanji Term of office Remarks
1 Asano Yoshinaga 浅 野 幸 長 1600-1613
2 Asano Nagaakira 浅 野 長 晟 1613-1619 Previously daimyo of Ashimori 1610-1613 and then Hiroshima 1619-1632
Surname Kanji Term of office Remarks
1 Tokugawa Yorinobu 徳 川 頼 宣 1619-1667 Previously daimyo by Mito 1603-1609 and by Sumpu 1609-1619
2 Tokugawa Mitsusada 徳 川 光 貞 1667-1698
3 Tokugawa Tsunanori 徳 川 綱 教 1698-1705
4th Tokugawa Yorimoto 徳 川 頼 職 1705 Previously as Matsudaira Yorimoto ( 松 平 頼 職 ) daimyō by Takamori 1697–1705
5 Tokugawa Yoshimune 徳 川 吉 宗 1705-1716 Previously as Matsudaira Yorikata ( 松 平 頼 方 ) daimyō of Kazurano 1697–1705 and then Shōgun 1716–1745
6th Tokugawa Munenao 徳 川 宗 直 1716-1757 Previously as Matsudaira Yoriyoshi ( 松 平 頼 致 ) daimyō of Saijō 1711–1716
7th Tokugawa Munemasa 徳 川 宗 将 1757-1765
8th Tokugawa Shigenori 徳 川 重 倫 1765-1775
9 Tokugawa Harusada 徳 川 治 貞 1775-1789 Previously as Matsudaira Yoriatsu ( 松 平 頼 淳 ) Daimyō of Saijō 1753–1775
10 Tokugawa Harutomi 徳 川 治 寶 1789-1824
11 Tokugawa Nariyuki 徳 川 斉 順 1824-1846 Previously head of the House of Shimizu Tokugawa ( Gosankyō ) 1805–1816
12 Tokugawa Narikatsu 徳 川 斉 彊 1846-1849 Previously head of the House of Shimizu Tokugawa 1827–1846
13 Tokugawa Yoshitomi 徳 川 慶福 1849-1858 Subsequently as Tokugawa Iemochi ( 徳 川 家 茂 ) Shogun 1858–1866
14th Tokugawa Mochitsugu 徳 川 茂 承 1858-1869