Ōkubo clan

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Ōkubo
大久保
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Home provinceMikawa
Parent houseFujiwara clan via the Utsunomiya clan
Titlesdaimyō, viscount
Founder
Final rulerŌkubo Tadayoshi (II)
Founding year15th century
Dissolutionstill extant
Ruled until1873 (Abolition of the han system)
Cadet branchesfour cadet branches to the Meiji Restoration

The Ōkubo clan (Japanese: 大久保氏, Hepburn: Ōkubo-shi) were a samurai kin group which rose to prominence in the Sengoku period and the Edo periods.[1] Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the Ōkubo, as hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa clan, were classified as one of the fudai daimyō clans.[2]

Ōkubo clan genealogy[]

The Ōkubo clan traces its origins to 16th century Mikawa Province.[2] The Ōkubo claimed descent from the Utsunomiya clan, descendants of Fujiwara no Michikane (955–995).[3] Ōkubo Tadatoshi (1499–1581) and his younger brother Ōkubo Tadakazu (1511–1583) were the first to abandon the Utaunomiya name for "Ōkubo". Both brothers were among the seven closest retainers of Matsudaira Hirotada, the father of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Main branch[]

The head of this clan, Ōkubo Tadanori line was ennobled as a viscount ("shishaku") in the kazoku peerage system.[3]

Cadet lines[]

  • A cadet branch was created in 1601 for Ōkubo Tadasuke (1537–1613), the second son of Ōkubo Tadakazu, who had served as a general in the armies of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ōkubo Tadasuke was given Numazu Castle and assigned Numazu Domain (20,000 koku) in Suruga Province; however, he died without leaving any heirs, and the domain reverted to the shogunate.[3]
  • A cadet branch of the Ōkubo was created in 1684. The descendants of (1554–1616), the sixth son of , has served as hatamoto to the Tokugawa shogunate. In 1687, Ōkubo Tadataka had amassed a revenue base of 10,000 koku, which qualified him to join the ranks of the daimyō. His son, Ōkubo Tsuneharu (1675–1728) was assigned to Karasuyama Domain (30,000 koku) in Shimotsuke Province in 1725, where his descendants remained until the Meiji restoration. The head of this clan line, Ōkubo Tadayori, was ennobled as a "Viscount" in the Meiji period.[3]
  • A cadet branch of the Ōkubo was created in 1706. This clan line was instituted for the descendants of (1657–1737), who were installed at (13,000 koku) in Sagami Province from 1718 through 1868. The head of this clan line was ennobled as a "Viscount" in the Meiji period.[3]

Indirect Ōkubo kazoku lines[]

  • Ōkubo Toshimichi, 1830–1878—1st Finance Minister and 1st Home Minister of Meiji's government.[5] Genrō.[6] was the son of a low-ranking samurai in the service of the Satsuma clan in Kagoshima. He claimed descent from a branch of the Ōkubo clan who migrated to Satsuma Province from Kyoto during the Sengoku period. For his services to the Meiji government, he was made a marquess (koshaku) under the kazoku peerage in 1884.[3]
  • In 1877, a former samurai from Suruga Province, (1817–1888) was ennobled as a "Viscount" under the kazoku system.[3] Ōkubo Ichio had served as councilor to the last five Tokugawa shōguns, and during the Boshin War, had served as an emissary for Tokugawa Yoshinobu to negotiate the surrender of Edo to imperial forces. Under the Meiji government, he served as appointed governor of Shizuoka (1870) and Kyoto (1875), and as a member of the Genrōin (1877). He was also known as Ōkubo Tadahiro.

Notes[]

  1. ^ Meyer, Eva-Maria. "Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit." Universität Tübingen (in German)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Appert, Georges. (1888). Ancien Japon, p. 75
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Papinot, Edmond. (2003). Nobiliare du Japon -- Ōkubo, p. 46; Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; retrieved 2012-11-7
  4. ^ Odawara castle
  5. ^ Röhl, William. (2005). History of Law in Japan Since 1868, p. 98; Acton, John et al. (1906). The Cambridge Modern History, p. 865. London: Macmillan & Company
  6. ^ McLaren, Walter. (1966). A Political History of Japan: During the Meiji Era, 1867–1912, p. 117

References[]

  • Dalberg-Acton, John, George Walter Prothero and Adolphus William Ward and Stanley Mordaunt Leathes. (1906). The Cambridge Modern History, p. 865. London: Macmillan & Company
  • Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888). Ancien Japon. Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha
  • McLaren, Walter. (1966). A Political History of Japan: During the Meiji Era, 1867–1912.. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-2018-1
  • Meyer, Eva-Maria. (1999). Japans Kaiserhof in de Edo-Zeit: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Jahre 1846 bis 1867. Münster: Tagenbuch. ISBN 3-8258-3939-7
  • Papinot, Edmond. (1906) Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha...Click link for digitized 1906 Nobiliaire du japon (2003)
  • Röhl, William. (2005). History of Law in Japan Since 1868. Leiden: Brill Publishers. ISBN 90-04-08591-2
  • Sasaki, Suguru. (2002). Boshin sensō: haisha no Meiji ishin. Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha

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