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Asano Narikata
Asano Narikata (November 5, 1773 – January 4, 1831) was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Edo period, who ruled the Hiroshima Domain. His childhood name was Jinnosuke (時之丞) later Zenjirō (善次郎). Family * Father: Asano Shigeakira * Mother: Tokugawa Yokohime (1751–1773), daughter of Tokugawa Munekatsu, 8th Daimyo of Owari Domain * Wives: ** Princess Arisugawa no Miya Oriko, daughter of Prince Arisugawa no Miya Orihito ** Tokudaiji Yasuko, daughter of Tokudaiji Kanmichi * Children: ** Asano Naritaka ** Utahime married Mizoguchi Naoaki of Shibata Domain ** Teruhime married Matsudaira Naonobu of Kawagoe Domain later married Uesugi Narisada of Yonezawa Domain ** Akihime married Hosokawa Narimori of Kumamoto Domain ** Kumihime married Maeda Toshiyasu of Toyama Domain ** daughter married Akimoto Hisatomo of Yamagata Domain ** Kayohime married Sō Yoshiyori of Tsushima-Fuchū Domain ** daughter married Mizoguchi Naoryo ** Kayoko married Tachibana Akinobu of Yanagawa Domain S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daimyō
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominally to the Emperor of Japan, emperor and the ''kuge''. In the term, means 'large', and stands for , meaning 'private land'. From the ''shugo'' of the Muromachi period through the Sengoku period, Sengoku to the ''daimyo'' of the Edo period, the rank had a long and varied history. The backgrounds of ''daimyo'' also varied considerably; while some ''daimyo'' clans, notably the Mōri clan, Mōri, Shimazu clan, Shimazu and Hosokawa clan, Hosokawa, were cadet branches of the Imperial family or were descended from the ''kuge'', other ''daimyo'' were promoted from the ranks of the samurai, notably during the Edo period. ''Daimyo'' often hired samurai to guard their land, and they paid the samurai in land or food as relatively few could aff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyama Domain
was a feudal domain in Edo period Japan, located in Etchū Province (modern-day Toyama Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Toyama Castle in what is now the city of Toyama. Throughout its history, it was ruled by a cadet branch of the Maeda clan. The ''daimyō'' of Toyama Domain was subject to ''sankin-kōtai'', and was received in the Ōhiroma of Edo Castle. History In 1639, the 3rd ''daimyō'' of Kaga Domain, Maeda Toshitsune, retired from office, and divided his domain among his three sons. Kaga Domain went to Maeda Mitsutaka; however, a 100,000 '' koku'' holding was created for his second son Maeda Toshitsugu (Toyama Domain), and a 70,000 ''koku'' holding for his third son Maeda Toshiharu ( Daishōji Domain) Initially, Toyama Domain consisted of several discontinuous areas: 60,000 ''koku'' in Nei District, 16,800 ''koku'' in Niikawa District (west bank of the Kurobe River, 3170 ''koku'' in seven villages around to town of Toyama and an exclave in Kaga Province of 20,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1831 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing '' The Liberator'', an anti-slavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts. * January 10 – Japanese department store, Takashimaya in Kyoto established. * February–March – Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian troops. * February 2 – Pope Gregory XVI succeeds Pope Pius VIII, as the 254th pope. * February 5 – Dutch naval lieutenant Jan van Speyk blows up his own gunboat in Antwerp rather than strike his colours on the demand of supporters of the Belgian Revolution. * February 7 – The Belgian Constitution of 1831 is approved by the National Congress. *February 8 - Aimé Bonpland leaves Paraguay. * February 14 – Battle of Debre Abbay: Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray, and defeats and kills the warlord Sabagadis. * February 25 – Battle of Olszynka Grochowska (Grochów): Polish rebel forces divide a Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1773 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The hymn that becomes known as ''Amazing Grace'', at this time titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17", is first used to accompany a sermon led by curate John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. * January 12 – The first museum in the American colonies is established in Charleston, South Carolina; in 1915, it is formally incorporated as the Charleston Museum. * January 17 – Second voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook in HMS Resolution (1771) becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle. * January 18 – The first opera performance in the Swedish language, ''Thetis and Phelée'', performed by Carl Stenborg and Elisabeth Olin in Bollhuset in Stockholm, Sweden, marks the establishment of the Royal Swedish Opera. * February 8 – The Grand Council of Poland meets in Warsaw, summoned by a circular letter from King Stanisław August Poniatowski to respond to the Kingdom's threate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshima Domain
The was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1601 to 1871. The Hiroshima Domain was based at Hiroshima Castle in Aki Province, in the modern city of Hiroshima, located in the Chūgoku region of the island of Honshu. The Hiroshima Domain was ruled for most of its existence by the ''daimyō'' of the Asano clan and encompassed Aki Province and parts of Bingo Province with a ''Kokudaka'' system value of 426,500 ''koku''. The Hiroshima Domain was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 by the Meiji government and its territory was absorbed into Hiroshima Prefecture. History In 1589, Hiroshima Castle was commissioned by Mōri Terumoto, head of the powerful Mōri clan and a member of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Council of Five Elders. In 1591, Terumoto relocated to Hiroshima while it was still under construction, using it as his base to rule his domain covering most of the Chūgoku region. Following the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, the Mōri we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanagawa Domain
was a Japanese Han (Japan), domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Chikugo Province in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. In the han system, Yanagawa was a politics, political and Economics, economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of ''kokudaka'', not land area.Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987)''Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century,'' p. 18 This was different from the feudalism of the West. List of ''daimyōs'' The hereditary ''daimyōs'' were head of the clan and head of the domain. *Tanaka clan, 1600–1620 (''Tozama daimyō, tozama''; 325,000 ''koku'') #Tanaka Yoshimasa, Yoshimasa #Tadamasa Tachibana clan (samurai), Tachibana clan, 1620–1871 (''tozama''; 109,000 ''koku'') #Tachibana Muneshige, Muneshige #Tadashige #Akitora #Akitaka #Sadayoshi #Sadanori #Akinao #Akihisa #Akikata #Akihiro #Akinobu #Akit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsushima-Fuchū Domain
, also called the Tsushima domain, was a domain of Japan in the Edo period. It is associated with Tsushima Province on Tsushima Island in modern-day Nagasaki Prefecture. In the han system, Tsushima was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of ''kokudaka'', not land area. This was different from the feudalism of the West. History The Sō clan was one of few ''daimyō'' clans during the Edo period which continued to control the same fiefs it controlled previously. Although it fought against Tokugawa Ieyasu at the battle of Sekigahara, the Sō clan was allowed by the shogunate to continue to rule Tsushima and entrusted it to diplomatic negotiations and trade with Joseon Korea. Its services included receptions of Korean missions to Japan. The Fuchū domain sold imports and bought exports in Osaka and Kyoto. It negotiated trade and diplomacy with the Nagasaki Commis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sō Yoshiyori
was a Sō clan ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the island domain of Tsushima at the end of Japan's Edo period. Yoshinori was the head of the Sō clan from 1842 through 1862. Black ships Sō ''Tsushima-no-kami'' was a senior member of the Imperial Commission which was delegated the responsibility of meeting with Commodore Perry and his men on March 8, 1854. He sat next to ''Daigaku-no-kami'' Hayashi Akira in the conference meeting. * March 8, 1854 (''Kaei 7, 10th day of the 2nd month''): Commodore Perry returned to Edo Bay to force Japanese agreement to the Treaty of Kanagawa The Convention of Kanagawa, also known as the Kanagawa Treaty (, ''Kanagawa Jōyaku'') or the Japan–US Treaty of Peace and Amity (, ''Nichibei Washin Jōyaku''), was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa Shogunate on March ...; and the chief Japanese negotiator was ''Daigaku-no kami'' Hayashi Akira, who was known to the Americans as "Prince Commissioner Hayashi".Sewall, John S. (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamagata Domain
was a feudal domain in Edo period Japan, located in Dewa Province (modern-day Yamagata Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Yamagata Castle in what is now the city of Yamagata. Unlike some ''han'' whose control was relatively stable throughout the Edo period (1603–1867), Yamagata changed hands a great number of times during its history. History Much of Dewa Province was controlled by the powerful Mogami clan during the Sengoku period. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi assigned the Uesugi clan to Aizu, senior Uesugi retainer Naoe Kanetsugu established himself at the neighboring Yonezawa Domain, with an army of 20,000 and gradually expanded his control north into Mogami territory. However, with the help of the Date clan under Date Masamune, the Mogami were able to defend Yamagata until Naoe was forced to withdraw following the defeat of the pro-Toyotomi forces at the Battle of Sekigahara. During the Tokugawa shogunate, in 1600, the Mogami were initially confirmed in their holdings, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumamoto Domain
The , also known as , was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Higo Province in modern-day Kumamoto Prefecture."HIgo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com retrieved 2013-5-24. In the , Kumamoto was a and abstraction based on periodic surveys and projected agricultural y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asano Shigeakira
Asano Shigeakira (December 2, 1743 – January 4, 1814) was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Edo period, who ruled the Hiroshima Domain. Family * Father: Asano Munetsune * Mother: Izumi no Kata * Wives: ** Tokugawa Kunihime (1736–1767), daughter of Tokugawa Munekatsu, 8th Daimyo of Owari Domain ** Tokugawa Yokohime (1751–1773), daughter of Tokugawa Munekatsu of Owari Domain * Children: ** Iwamatsu by Kunihime ** Asano Narikata by Yokohime ** Mori Hayatsu (1769–1801) of Mikazuki Domain ** Asano Nagatoshi ** Asano Nagatomo ** Asano Samumaru ** Katsuko married Mizuno Tadamitsu of Karatsu Domain ** Koki-in married Nanbu Toshitaka of Morioka Domain 300px, Ruins of Morioka Castle was a '' tozama'' feudal domain of Edo period Japan. It was ruled throughout its history by the Nanbu clan. It was called during the early part of its history. It was located in northern Mutsu Province, Honshū, ... ** daughter married Ito Hirotami of Obi Domain ** daughter married Asano Nagakata ** da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonezawa Domain
was a Han (Japan), feudal domain in Edo period Japan, located in Dewa Province (modern-day Yamagata Prefecture), Japan. It was centered at Yonezawa castle in what is now the city of Yamagata, Yamagata, Yamagata, and its territory extended over the Okitama District of Dewa Province, in what is today southeastern Yamagata Prefecture. It was ruled throughout its history by the Uesugi clan, as ''tozama daimyō'', with an initial income of 300,000 ''koku'', which later fell to 150,000–180,000. The Uesugi were ranked as a , and as such, had the privilege of Shōgun, shogunal audiences in the Great Hall (''Ōhiroma'') of Edo Castle. The domain shifted from a poor, indebted, and corruptly led domain to a very prosperous one in only a few decades in the 1760s–80s. Yonezawa was declared in 1830 by the shogunate to be the paragon of a well-managed domain. Scholar Mark Ravina used Yonezawa as a case study in analysing the political status and conceptions of statehood and identity in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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