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Kishū Tokugawa Family
The is a branch of the Tokugawa clan based in Kii Province. The family was founded in 1619, when Tokugawa Yorinobu, 10th 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 ..., was appointed to rule Kii Province. As Kii Province was alternatively called Kishū (紀州), so the family is also known as the . History Family Tree References {{japan-clan-stub Japanese clans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollyhock
''Alcea'' is a genus of over 80 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks. They are native to Asia and Europe. The single species of hollyhock from the Americas, the Iliamna rivularis, streambank wild hollyhock, belongs to a different genus. Description Hollyhocks are annual, Biennial plant, biennial, or perennial plants usually taking an erect, unbranched form. The herbage usually has a coating of star-shaped hairs. The leaf blades are often lobed or toothed, and are borne on long petiole (botany), petioles. The flowers may be solitary or arranged in Fascicle (botany), fascicles or racemes. The notched petals are usually over three centimeters wide and may be pink, white, purple, or yellow. The fruit is a schizocarp, a dry disc divided into over 15 sections that contain seeds. Species The following species are accepted: *''Alcea abchazica'' Iljin *''Alcea acaulis'' (Cav.) Alef. *''Alcea afghanica'' I.Riedl *''Alcea antoninae'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mon (crest)
, also called , , and , are Japanese emblems used to decorate and identify an individual, a family, or (more recently) an institution, municipality or business entity. While is an encompassing term that may refer to any such device, and refer specifically to emblems that are used to identify a family. An authoritative reference compiles Japan's 241 general categories of based on structural resemblance (a single may belong to multiple categories), with 5,116 distinct individual . However, it is well acknowledged that there are a number of lost or obscure . Among , the officially used by the family is called . Over time, new have been created, such as , which is unofficially created by an individual, and , which is created by a woman after marriage by modifying part of her original family's , so that by 2023 there will be a total of 20,000 to 25,000 . The devices are similar to the badges and coats of arms in European heraldic tradition, which likewise are used to identi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kii Province
, or , was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is today Wakayama Prefecture, as well as the southern part of Mie Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Kii''" in . Kii bordered Ise, Izumi, Kawachi, Shima, and Yamato Provinces. The Kii Peninsula takes its name from this province. During the Edo period, the Kii branch of the Tokugawa clan had its castle at Wakayama. Its former ichinomiya shrine was Hinokuma Shrine. The Japanese bookshop chain Kinokuniya derives its name from the province. Historical districts * Wakayama Prefecture ** Ama District (海部郡) - merged with Nagusa District to become Kaisō District (海草郡) on April 1, 1896 ** Arida District (有田郡) ** Hidaka District (日高郡) ** Ito District (伊都郡) ** Naga District (那賀郡) - dissolved ** Nagusa District (名草郡) - merged with Ama District to become Kaisō District on April 1, 1896 * Mixed ** Muro District (牟婁郡) *** Higashimuro District (東牟婁 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Minamoto clan ( Seiwa Genji) through the Matsudaira clan. The early history of the clan remains a mystery. Nominally, the Matsudaira clan is said to be descended from the Nitta clan, a branch of the Minamoto clan, but this is considered to be untrue or unlikely. History Minamoto no Yoshishige (1135–1202), grandson of Minamoto no Yoshiie (1041–1108), was the first to take the name of Nitta. He sided with his cousin Minamoto no Yoritomo against the Taira clan (1180) and accompanied him to Kamakura. Nitta Yoshisue, 4th son of Yoshishige, settled at Tokugawa (Kozuke province) and took the name of that place. Their provincial history book did not mention Minamoto clan or Nitta clan. The nominal originator of the Matsudaira clan wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokugawa Yorinobu
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the early Edo period. Born under the name Nagatomimaru (長福丸), he was the 10th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, by his concubine Kageyama-dono. On December 8, 1603, Yorinobu received the fief of Mito, then rated at 200,000 ''koku'', as his fief. Mito had formerly belonged to his older brother, Takeda Nobuyoshi. Following his stipend increase to 250,000 ''koku'' in October 1604, he came of age on September 12, 1606, taking the name Yorimasa, and receiving the court rank of junior 4th, lower grade (''ju-shi-i-ge'') and the title of ''Hitachi no Suke''. On January 6, 1610, he was transferred to a 500,000 ''koku'' fief in Suruga and Tōtōmi Provinces (thereby founding Sunpu Domain centered on Sunpu Castle), and took the name Yorinobu. However, after a little under a decade in Suruga, he was transferred to the 550,000 ''koku'' Wakayama Domain on August 27, 1619, following the transfer of the previous rulers, the Asano clan, to Hiroshima, in Aki Provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga, Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda clan, Oda subordinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The son of a minor daimyo, Ieyasu once lived as a hostage under daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto on behalf of his father. He later succeeded as daimyo after his father's death, serving as ally, vassal, and general of the Oda clan, and building up his strength under Oda Nobunaga. After Oda Nobunaga's death, Ieyasu was briefly a rival of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, before declaring his allegiance to Toyotomi and fighting on his behalf. Under Toyotomi, Ieyasu was relocated to the Kantō region, Kanto plains in eastern Japan, away from the Toyotomi power base in Osaka. He built Edo Castle, his castle in the fishing village of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokugawa Mitsusada
was a ''daimyō'' in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868). Mitsusada was born as the son and heir of Tokugawa Yorinobu and a grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu with the childhood name Nagatomimaru (長福丸). Among his sons was the eighth Tokugawa shōgun Yoshimune. Norihime, a daughter of his, married Ichijō Kaneteru. He married the daughter of Prince Fushimi-no-Miya Sadakiyo, Yaso-no-Miya Teruko (who is also the sister of Asa no Miya Akiko who was 4th shōgun, Tokugawa Ietsuna's wife). One of the gosanke, Mitsusada ruled the Wakayama Domain from its castle, his birthplace, in Wakayama. He reached the Junior Second court rank while alive, and was awarded the Junior First rank posthumously; he also held the ceremonial post of ''gon-dainagon''. His grave is at Chōhō-ji in Wakayama. His other sons were Tokugawa Tsunanori (1665-1705) and Tokugawa Yoritomo (1680-1705). Family * Father: Tokugawa Yorinobu * Mother: Nakagawa-dono (1601-1666) * Wife: Yaso-no-Miya Teruko later Tens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokugawa Yoshimune
was the eighth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1716 until his abdication in 1745. He was the son of Tokugawa Mitsusada, the grandson of Tokugawa Yorinobu, and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yoshimune is known for repealing the ban on Western literature. Lineage Yoshimune was not the son of any former ''shōgun''. Rather, he was a member of a cadet branch of the Tokugawa clan. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, well aware of the extinction of the Minamoto line in 1219, had realized that his direct descendants might die out, leaving the Tokugawa family at risk of extinction. Thus, while his son Tokugawa Hidetada was the second ''shōgun'', he selected three other sons to establish the '' gosanke,'' hereditary houses which would provide a ''shōgun'' if there were no male heir. The three ''gosanke'' were the Owari, Kii, and Mito branches. Yoshimune was from the branch of Kii. The founder of the Kii house was one of To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokugawa Munetada
was a Japanese samurai of the mid-Edo period who was the founder of the Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family, one of the Gosankyō, the three lesser branches of the Tokugawa family. He was the fourth son of Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth shōgun with his concubine, Oume no Kata. He is the grandfather of Tokugawa Ienari the eleventh shōgun, His child-hood name was "Kogoro" (小五郎) and when Oume died at 1721, he was raised by his grandmother, Joenin until her death 1726 and later he was raised by Okume no Kata, Yoshimune's concubine. Family * Father: Tokugawa Yoshimune * Mother: Oume no Kata later Shinshin'in (1700–1721) *Adopted Mother: Okume no Kata later Kakuju-in (1697-1777) * Wife, Children, Concubines: ** Wife: Ichijo Akiko later Fushin'in *** Matsudaira Shigemasa ** Concubine: ??? *** Sennosuke *** Kanejirō ** Concubine: Oyuka no Kata *** Matsudaira Shigetomi *** Yasuhime (1747-1769) married Shimazu Shigehide *** Tokugawa Harusada (1751-1827) *** Kuroda Haruyuki (1753-1781) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokugawa Ienari
Tokugawa Ienari (, 18 November 1773 – 22 March 1841) was the eleventh and longest-serving ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan who held office from 1787 to 1837.Hall, John Whitney ''et al.'' (1991) ''Early Modern Japan'', p. 21./ref> He was a great-grandson of the eighth shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune through his son Munetada (1721–1764), head of the Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, Hitotsubashi branch of the family, and his grandson Harusada (1751–1827). Ienari died in 1841 and was given the Buddhist name Bunkyouin and buried at Kan'ei-ji. Events of Ienari's ''bakufu'' * 1787 (''Tenmei 7''): Ienari becomes the 11th ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate, bakufu government. * 1788 (''Tenmei 7''): Riots in rice shops in Edo and Osaka. * 6 – 11 March 1788 (''Tenmei 8, 29th day of the 1st month – 4th day of the second month''): Great Fire of Kyoto. A fire in the city, which begins at 3 o'clock in the morning of March 6 burns uncontrolled until the 1st day of the second month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokugawa Narimasa
was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period. The son of Tokugawa Harusada, head of the Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house, he succeeded Tokugawa Haruaki as head of the Tayasu branch of the Tokugawa house, which had been without a ruler for some time. His childhood name was Yoshinosuke (慶之丞). Family * Father: Tokugawa Harusada (1751-1827), 2nd head of Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house, and grandson of the 8th shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune * Mother: Maruyama-dono * Wife: Kan’in no Miya Sadako (1787-1825) * Concubines: ** Kakei-dono ** Yagi-dono ** Kawai-dono ** Saito-dono ** Shinozaki-dono (1794-1858) ** Takatsuki-dono ** Oran no Kata (1796-1817) * Children: ** Kinhime (1800-1830) married Tokugawa Narinori of Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family by Sadako ** Shizuhime (1803-1803) by Sadako ** Tokugawa Masatoki (1805-1839) by Sadako ** Naohime (1807-1872) married Tokugawa Naritaka of Owari Domain (and son of the 11th shōgun Tokugawa Ienari) by Sadako ** Takeshisuke (1799-1800) by Kakei ** Tsuhime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokugawa Yoshiyori
was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. Son of the 3rd generation Tayasu family head, Narimasa, he was head of the Tayasu house twice: in 1839–1863 and 1868–1876. He went to Shizuoka Domain in 1868, and served as the guardian of his son the young daimyō Tokugawa Iesato. He was also the father of Tokugawa Takachiyo and Tokugawa Satotaka. His childhood name was Konnosuke (耕之助). Family * Father: Tokugawa Narimasa * Mother: Shinozaki-dono (1794-1858) * Wives: ** Teruhime (1826–1840) daughter of 12th shōgun Tokugawa Ieyoshi ** Kan’in no Miya Yoshiko (1829-1906) * Concubines: ** Takai-dono ** Sawai-dono * Children: ** Kikuhime (1856-1865) by Takai ** Tokugawa Takachiyo by Takai ** son later Shiun’in (1862-1862) by Takai ** Tokugawa Iesato by Takai ** Tokugawa Satotaka by Takai ** Haruhime (1868-1868) by Takai ** Okimaru (1871-1871) by Takai ** Ryumaro (1862-1862) by Sawai ** Shizuhime (1866-1912) married Sakai Tadazumi by Sawai ** Kagahime (1867-1868) by Sawai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
