were a ''

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'' kin group which rose to prominence in the

Sengoku period The was a period in History of Japan, Japanese history of near-constant civil war and social upheaval from 1467 to 1615. The Sengoku period was initiated by the Ōnin War in 1467 which collapsed the Feudalism, feudal system of Japan under the ...

and the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)
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, the Miyake were hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa clan. The Miyake were classified as one of the ''fudai daimyō'' clans. Appert, Georges. (1888)
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History

The clan was descended from the Uda-Genji. The Miyake claimed descent from the famed

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warrior

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, during the 14th century, although this claim is somewhat tenuous. At the start of the

, the Miyake were based in northern

Mikawa Province was an old province in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Mikawa''" in . Its abbreviated form name was . Mikawa bordered on Owari, Mino, Shinano, and Tōtōmi Provinces. Mik ...

, and were hereditary enemies to the neighboring

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. However, under the leadership of Miyake Masasada, the clan submitted to the Matsudaira in 1558. Masasada's son Yasusada (1544–1615) served as a general in the armies of

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. After the creation of the

, he was appointed ''

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'' of

Koromo Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Mikawa Province (modern-day eastern Aichi Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Koromo Castle in what is now the city of Toyota, Aichi. History A fortificatio ...

, a 10,000 ''

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'' fief in Mikawa Province in 1604.三宅氏 at Harimaya.com
Miyake Yasunobu (1563–1632) was transferred to the 20,000 ''koku''

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in 1615. The Miyake moved to

Tahara Domain was a minor '' fudai'' Japanese domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in southern Mikawa Province (modern-day southeastern Aichi Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Tahara Castle in what is now the city of Tahara. ...

(12,000 ''koku'') in southern Mikawa Province in 1664, where they remained until the

Meiji Restoration The , referred to at the time as the , and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Although there were ...

. The final ''daimyō'' of Tahara Domain, Miyake Yasuyoshi (1831–1895), served as ''guji'' to the

Kunōzan Tōshō-gū The is a Shintō shrine in Suruga-ku in the city of Shizuoka in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is the original burial place of the first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and is thus the oldest of the Tōshō-gū shrines ...

under the

Meiji government The was the government that was formed by politicians of the Satsuma Domain and Chōshū Domain in the 1860s. The Meiji government was the early government of the Empire of Japan. Politicians of the Meiji government were known as the Meiji o ...

. He was made a

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(''shishaku'') in the ''

kazoku The was the hereditary peerage of the Empire of Japan, which existed between 1869 and 1947. They succeeded the feudal lords () and court nobles (), but were abolished with the 1947 constitution. Kazoku ( 華族) should not be confused with ...

'' peerage system.

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