Yamanouchi (clan)
The Yamanouchi or Yamauchi ( Japanese 山 内 氏 , Yama (no) uchi-shi ) were a family of the Japanese sword nobility ( Buke ), which was derived from Fujiwara no Hidesato . With an income of 242,000 Koku , the Yamanouchi residing in Kōchi ( Kōchi Prefecture ) belonged to the great Tozama daimyō of the Edo period .
Family members
- Toshimichi ( 俊 道 ), Hidesato's 10th generation descendant, was the first to adopt the name Yamanouchi.
- Moritoyo ( 盛 豊 ) had the castles Iwakura and Kuroda in the Owari province in the 16th century .
- Kazutoyo ( 一 豊 , 1546–1605), Moritoyo's son, began his service with Oda Nobunaga at the age of 13 . Toyotomi Hideyoshi gave him the fief of Takahama in the province of Wakasa in 1582, the Nagahama Castle in Ōmi and the title of Tsushima no kami in 1585 . In 1590 he was transferred to Kakegawa ( Tōtōmi ) with an income of 50,000 koku. He then joined Tokugawa Ieyasu , who in 1600 after the Battle of Sekigahara gave him the province of Tosa with 242,000 koku.
- Yōdō ( 容 堂 , 1827–1872), or Toyoshige ( 豊 信 ), took a leading role in the overthrow of the Shogunate. He was the first to write to the Shogun at the suggestion of Gotō Shōjirō (1838-1897) that he should resign and leave the country back to the Tennō . Yōdō held various offices in the new government after the Meiji Restoration . The family then carried the title Tosa no kami .
Branch lines
There were two branch lines that were given the title ( Kazoku ) Vice Count and Baron after 1868 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Furusawa, Tsunetoshi: Kamon daichō . Kin'ensha, n.d., ISBN 4-321-31720-7 , p. 78
- ↑ Excerpt from the district map "Kandabashi-nai Daimyō-kōji Uchi-sakurada" from approx. 1850.
literature
- Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
- Saichiro Miyaji (Ed.): Yamanouchi-han . In: Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanchu-tachi. Saikoku-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997, ISBN 978-4-7959-1905-1 .