is a Japanese
samurai
The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...
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
The , also known as the Northern and Southern Courts period, was a period in Japanese history between 1336-1392 CE, during the formative years of the Ashikaga shogunate, Muromachi (Ashikaga) shogunate. Ideologically, the two courts fought for 50 ...
. 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
, otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: ...
;
but the Shimōsa branch survived as ''
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 no ...
s'' of
Yūki Domain in
Shimōsa Province
was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture as well as the bordering parts of Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo (the parts that used to be located east of the lower reaches of the old Tone River prior to the ...
.
The Shimōsa Yūki became part of the
Tokugawa clan
The is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 during the Edo period. It was formerly a powerful ''daimyō'' family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of ...
.
The main samurai vassals of the Yūki (''Yūki shi-ten'') included the
Tagaya clan, the
Mizutani clan, the
Yamakawa clan and the
Iwakami clan.
[Papinot, (2003)]
"Yūki shi-ten", ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 72
retrieved 2013-5-6.
Select list
*
Yūki Tomomitsu, 1168-1254, 1st head of Yūki Domain
*
Yūki Tomohiro, son of Tomomitsu
*
Yūki Hirotsugu, son of Tomohiro
*
Yūki Sukehiro, son of Tomohiro at Shirakawa in Mutsu, 1298
*
Yūki Munehiro, d. c. 1340
*
Yūki Chikatomo, d. 1347
*
Yūki Chikamitsu, d. 1336
*
Yūki Akitomo, d. c. 1370, son of Chikatomo
*
Yūki Ujitomo, 1398-1441
*
Yūki Noritomo, 1439-1462
*
Yūki Masatomo, 1477-1545
*
Yūki Masakatsu, 1504-1559
*
Yūki Harutomo, 1534-1616, adopted son of
Oyama Taketomo
*
Yūki Hideyasu
was a Japanese samurai who lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama period, Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods. He was the ''daimyō'' of Fukui Domain in Echizen Province, Echizen.
Early life
Hideyasu was born as in 1574, the second son of To ...
,
adopted son of
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; 31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616) was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Gr ...
*
Yūki Naomoto
See also
*''
Yūki Kassen Ekotoba'', scroll painting depicting Yūki Ujitomo's rebellion against the
Ashikaga shogunate
References
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Japanese clans