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Andō Kiyosue
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period, who was a traditional authority in the north half of Dewa Province and the south half of Yezo island. Kiyosue was the son of Andō Hirosue. Kiyosue mediated the Ainu dispute with the Japanese who followed for about 100 years, and had their trade agreements concluded.Mineo Kaiho, エゾの歴史, Tokyo:Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Eveni ..., 1996, References 1514 births 1553 deaths Andō clan Daimyo People from Akita Prefecture {{daimyo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akita Clan
The was a Japanese samurai clan of northern Honshū that claimed descent from Abe no Sadato of the Abe clan. The Akita clan was originally known as the . In the Kamakura period, they were installed in the Tsugaru district of Mutsu Province to trade with Ainu people for the Hōjō clan, and to administer Ezo as a penal colony. In Sengoku period Andō clan was driven out by Nanbu clan, and migrated to the neighbouring province Dewa. Andō Chikasue, who held the title of Akitajō-no-suke, changed the clan's name to "Akita". Under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Akita Sanesue was awarded a 50,000 ''koku'' fief in what is now the city of Akita, but in the capacity of local administrator (''daikon'') rather than as a ''daimyō''. Following the Battle of Sekigahara and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Satake clan was transferred from their ancestral domains in Hitachi Province to Dewa, and Akita Sanesue was relocated to Shishido Domain in the former Satake territories. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andō Hirosue
Andō, Ando, Andou or Andoh (written: 安藤 or 安東) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese gravure idol and professional wrestler *, Japanese footballer * Albert Ando (1929–2002), Japanese-born American economist *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese alpine skier *, Japanese actress *, Japanese screenwriter and film director *, Japanese manga artist * Ando Jubei, cloisonné artist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese writer and television personality *, Japanese freestyle skier *, Japanese weightlifter *, Japanese general and wartime Home Minister *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese businessman *, Japanese Kendo teacher *, Japanese women's footballer *, Japanese businessman, former president of Sony *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese composer and guitarist *, Japanese actor and film director *, Japanese animator and character designer *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese figure skater *, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andō Chikasue
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period, who was a powerful figure in the north half of Dewa Province. Chikasue was the son of Andō Kiyosue. Chikasue united the Hiyama Ando and Minato Ando families who had been divided. He obtained some mines, and he ruled the Akita port directly. He changed the name of the clan from Andō to Akita and was extolled as being like the Big Dipper in the northern sky. However, he died of sickness immediately before the unification of the north half of Dewa Province.Junji Shioya, 新版県史 秋田県の歴史, Tokyo:Yamakawa, 2001, He was succeeded by his son Akita Sanesue was a Japanese daimyo who lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama period, Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods. Biography He was the son of daimyo Andō Chikasue, a powerful figure in Dewa Province. Sanesue pledged loyalty to Toyotomi Hideyosh .... References 1539 births 1587 deaths Andō clan Daimyo People from Akita Prefecture People from Noshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dewa Province
was a province of Japan comprising modern-day Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, except for the city of Kazuno and the town of Kosaka. Dewa bordered on Mutsu and Echigō Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was . History Early period Prior to the Asuka period, Dewa was inhabited by Ainu or Emishi tribes, and was effectively outside of the control of the imperial dynasty. Abe no Hirafu conquered the native Emishi tribes at what are now the cities of Akita and Noshiro in 658 and established a fort on the Mogami River. In 708 AD was created within Echigō Province. The area of Dewa District was roughly that of the modern Shōnai area of Yamagata Prefecture, and was gradually extended to the north as the Japanese pushed back the indigenous people of northern Honshū. Dewa District was promoted to the status of a province () in 712 AD, and gained Okitama and Mogami Districts, formerly part of Mutsu Province. A number of military expeditions were sent to the area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...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'' (an aristocratic class). In the term, means 'large', and stands for , meaning 'private land'. From the ''shugo'' of the Muromachi period through the Sengoku period 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 paid them in land or food, as relatively few could afford to pay them i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sengoku Period
The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as the period's start date, but there are many competing historiographies for its end date, ranging from 1568, the date of Oda Nobunaga#Ise campaign, Omi campaign, and march to Kyoto, Oda Nobunaga's march on Kyoto, to the suppression of the Shimabara Rebellion in 1638, deep into what was traditionally considered the Edo period. Regardless of the dates chosen, the Sengoku period overlaps substantially with the Muromachi period (1336–1573). This period was characterized by the overthrow of a superior power by a subordinate one. The Ashikaga shogunate, the ''de facto'' central government, declined and the , a local power, seized wider political influence. The people rebelled against the feudal lords in revolts known as . The period saw a break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodansha
is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Evening'', ''Weekly Young Magazine'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'', and ''Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine'', as well as the more literary magazines ''Gunzō'', ''Weekly Gendai, Shūkan Gendai'', and the Japanese dictionary, ''Nihongo Daijiten''. Kodansha was founded by Seiji Noma in 1909, and members of his family continue as its owners either directly or through the Noma Cultural Foundation. History Seiji Noma founded Kodansha in 1909 as a spin-off of the ''Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai'' (, "Greater Japan Oratorical Society") and produced the literary magazine, ''Yūben,'' () as its first publication. The name ''Kodansha'' (taken from ''Kōdan Club'' (), a now-defunct magazine published by the company) originated in 1911 when the publisher formally merged wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1514 Births
Year 1514 (Roman numerals, MDXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 10 – A great fire breaks out, in the Rialto of Venice. * February 12 – War of the League of Cambrai: In what is now the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Giacomo Badoer (died 1537), Giacomo Badoer, administrator of the Republic of Venice, orders a retreat from the approaching forces of the Holy Roman Empire, abandoning Udine, Cividale and Cormons and falling back on Sacile. * March 12 – A huge exotic embassy sent by King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X arrives in Rome, including Hanno (elephant), Hanno, an Indian elephant. * March 13 – Louis XII of France makes peace with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. April–June * April 29 – After a month of negotiations at Linz between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Denmark, representatives of the two nations sign an alliance agreement, to be s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1553 Deaths
Year 1553 (Roman numerals, MDLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 2 – The Siege of Metz (1552), siege of Metz in France, started by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor during the Italian War of 1551–59 on October 19 last is lifted after 75 days. During the city's defense by the Francis, Duke of Guise, Duke of Guise and 6,000 soldiers, Charles V had lost two-thirds of his original force of at least 20,000 men. * February 17 – In India, Timmaraja Wodeyar II becomes the sixth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore (a vassal state of the Vijayanagara Empire), after the death of his father, the Maharaja Chamaraja Wodeyar III. * February 21 – Lieutenant General Luis Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio temporarily serves as the List of viceroys of Naples, Spanish Viceroy of Naples (in modern-day Italy) upon the death of his father, Pedro Álvarez de Toledo. Luis steps down after Pedro Pacheco de Villena is app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andō Clan
The is a Japanese samurai kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)">DF 6 of 80">"Andō," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 2 [PDF 6 of 80/nowiki> retrieved 2013-5-5. History The clan claims descent from Abe no Hirafu and Abe no Nakamaro. During the Kamakura period, the clan served as the Presiding Governor of Ezo, Presiding Governors of Ezo. The clan served the Tokugawa clan during Edo Period. Their first recorded family head, Andō Naotsugu was eldest son of Andō Haruyoshi and grandson of Andō Ieshige, retainer of Matsudaira Hirotada (father of Tokugawa Ieyasu). Head family (ruled Kii-Tanabe domain) * Andō Naotsugu (1555–1635) * Andō Naoharu (1607–1636) * Andō Yoshikado (1636–1654) * Andō Naokiyo (1633–1692) * Andō Naona (1680–1708) * Andō Nobutake (1688–1717) * Andō Nobusada (1717–1725) * Andō Katsuyoshi (1715–1730) * Andō Tsuguyuki (1716–1765) * Andō Hironaga (1747–17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daimyo
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early 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 and the ''kuge'' (an aristocratic class). In the term, means 'large', and stands for , meaning 'private land'. From the '' shugo'' of the Muromachi period through the Sengoku period 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, Shimazu and 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 paid them in land or food, as relatively few could afford to pay them in money. The daimyo era ended soon after the Meiji Restoration, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
