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Yūki Clan
is a Japanese samurai kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Yūki," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', pp. 71–72 retrieved 2013-5-6. History The Yūki claim descent from Fujiwara no Hidesato. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Yūki"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 1066. The clan is composed of two branches: the Shimōsa Yūki and the Shirakawa Yūki. The split happened during the Nanboku-chō period. One branch supported the Southern Imperial Court, and the other branch the Northern Pretenders. Like many samurai clans, the Yūki developed a code of provincial laws (''bunkoku-hō''). In 1556, Yūki Masakatsu published . The Shirakawa branch was destroyed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi; but the Shimōsa branch survived as ''daimyōs'' of Yūki Domain in Shimōsa Province. The Shimōsa Yūki became part of the Tokugawa clan. The main samurai vassals of the Yūki (''Yūki shi-ten'') included the Tagaya clan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimōsa Province
was a province of Japan in the area modern Chiba Prefecture, and Ibaraki Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Shimōsa''" in . It lies to the north of the Bōsō Peninsula (房総半島), whose name takes its first ''kanji'' from the name of Awa Province and its second from Kazusa and Shimōsa Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was or . Shimōsa is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō. It was bordered by Kazusa Province to the south, Musashi and Kōzuke Provinces to the west, and Hitachi and Shimotsuke Provinces to the north. Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, Shimōsa was ranked as a "great country" (大国) and a far country (遠国). History Shimōsa was originally part of a larger territory known as , which was divided into "upper" and "lower" portions (i.e. Kazusa and Shimōsa) during the reign of Emperor Kōtoku (645–654). It was well-known to the Imperial Court in Nara period Japan for its fertile lands, and is mentioned in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |