O-Ie Sōdō (, "house strife") were noble family disputes within the
samurai
were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...
and aristocratic classes of
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
, particularly during the early
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 ...
(17th century). The most famous is the ''
Date Sōdō The Date Sōdō (伊達騒動), or Date Disturbance, was a noble family dispute within the Date samurai clan, which occurred in 1671.
History
In 1660, the ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the Sendai Domain, and clan head, Date Tsunamune was arrested ...
'', which broke out among the
Date family
The is a Japanese samurai kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Date", ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 5 retrieved 2013-5-5.
History
The Date family was founded ...
in the 1660s–70s.
The
Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Tokugawa-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia ...
which ruled Japan in the Edo period established itself by subjugating warlords (''
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 n ...
''), militant religious groups (
ikki
Ikki may refer to:
*''Ikki'', revolts against samurai rule in 15th and 16th century Japan
**Ikkō-ikki, ''ikki'' revolts organized by Jōdo Shinshū Buddhists
***Kaga ikki, an ''Ikkō-ikki'' break-away warrior and peasant confederacy based in Kaga ...
) and other violent groups; their control was predicated on a forcibly imposed peace. As a result, these sorts of noble house disputes, which often came quite close to erupting into outright battle and which often took place among the powerful ''
tozama'' families, posed a serious threat to the stability of the ''
bakuhan'' (shogunate-fiefdom) political system. These events were thus taken very seriously by the government, but also became very popular tales among the people, and were regarded as being quite interesting and exciting, due to the political and physical conflict involved. A number were related in books and several were even transformed into plays and performed on the
kabuki
is a classical form of Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for its heavily-stylised performances, the often-glamorous costumes worn by performers, and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers.
Kabuki is thought to ...
or
bunraku
(also known as ) is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed in the modern day. Three kinds of performers take part in a performance: the or ( puppeteers ...
stage, under the genre known as ''O-ie-mono'' (御家物) or ''O-Ie
Kyōgen
is a form of traditional Japanese comic theater. It developed alongside ''Noh'', was performed along with ''Noh'' as an intermission of sorts between ''Noh'' acts on the same stage, and retains close links to ''Noh'' in the modern day; therefo ...
'' (御家狂言).
Notable family disputes
*1608 –
Tsutsui clan,
Iga-Ueno Domain (''Tsutsui Sōdō'')
*1614 –
Ōkubo Nagayasu
was a Japanese samurai bureaucrat and ''daimyō'' of the Edo period. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Matsudaira Ietada"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 747.
Career
He was in charge of silver mines at Sagami after 1601, at Sado after 1603 and at ...
(
Ōkubo family , also Okubo, Ohkubo and Ookubo, is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Ōkubo clan
**Ōkubo Tadayo (1532–1594), Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period
**Ōkubo Tadasuke (1537–1613), Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku an ...
),
Odawara Domain
250px, Odawara Castle, Headquarters of the Odawara Domain
was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located primarily in western Sagami Province (modern-day Kanagawa Prefecture). It was centered on Odawara Castle in what is now the city of Odawar ...
*1617 –
Mogami clan
were Japanese ''daimyōs'', and were a branch of the Ashikaga family. In the Sengoku period, they were the Sengoku ''daimyōs'' who ruled Dewa Province which is now Yamagata Prefecture and part of Akita Prefecture.
The Mogami clan is derived ...
,
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 ...
(''Mogami Sōdō'')
*1626 –
Sō clan
were a Japanese clan claiming descent from Taira no Tomomori. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Toki," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 56 retrieved 2013-5-10. The clan go ...
,
Tsushima Domain Tsushima may refer to:
Places
* Tsushima Island, part of Nagasaki Prefecture
** Tsushima, Nagasaki, a city in Nagasaki Prefecture (coterminous with Tsushima Island)
** Tsushima Province, a historical province, coterminous with modern Tsushima Subp ...
(''Yanagawa Iken'')
*1633 –
Kuroda clan Kuroda (written: lit. "black ricefield") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*, Japanese painter
* Akinobu Kuroda 黒田 明伸, Japanese historian
*Chris Kuroda, lighting designer and operator for the band Phish and Ju ...
,
Fukuoka Domain
was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Chikuzen Province in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. The domain was also sometimes referred to as Chikuzen Domain, or as Kuroda Domain, after the ruling Kuroda ...
*1634 –
Tsugaru clan
The was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled the northwestern half of what is now Aomori Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The Tsugaru were ''daimyō'' of Hirosaki Domain and its semi-subsidiary, Ku ...
,
Hirosaki Domain
Hirosaki Castle, the seat of the Hirosaki Domain
, also known as , was a '' tozama'' feudal domain of Edo period JapanRavina, Mark. (1998) ''Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan,'' p. 222 It is located in Mutsu Province, in northern Honshū ...
(''Funabashi Sōdō'')
*1635 –
Kamei clan
Kamei ( 亀 井, "turtle well") is a Japanese surname.
*Japanese clan, Kamei clan
People that have the name include:
*Akiko Kamei, politician
*Eri Kamei, member of Morning Musume
* Fumio Kamei, documentary film director
*, Japanese fencer
* Hirot ...
,
_(''Enchi_Sōdō'')
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(''Enchi Sōdō'')
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