Yanagiwara family

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In this Japanese name, the surname is Yanagiwara.
Yanagiwara family
柳原家
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Mon: Tsuru-no-maru
Home provinceYamashiro Province
Parent houseFujiwara clan
Titles
FounderYanagiwara Sukeakira
Founding year14th century
Dissolutionstill extant
Ruled until1947
Cadet branches
  • Mushanokōji family
  • Machijiri family

The Yanagiwara family (柳原家, Yanagiwara-ke)[1] is a Japanese aristocratic family descending from the Fujiwara clan's Hokke house. Its kuge family rank was meike. After the Meiji Restoration, the family was appointed Count.

Origins[]

Fujiwara no Fuyutsugu, ancestor of the Yanagiwara family

The Yanagiwara family descends from the Fujiwara clan's Hokke house through , the elder brother of Fujiwara no Fuyutsugu. Through Manatsu, they descend from the lineage.[2] The family was founded in the late Kamakura period by Yanagiwara Sukeakira, the fourth son of Gon-Dainagon .[3][2] Sukeakira took the name Yanagiwara from the Yanagiwara Mansion that he lived in.[2]

History[]

Yanagiwara Sukeakira was the younger brother of , and because his eldest brother was Emperor Kōgon's favorite, he served the Northern Court building up his power. He later moved to live at the Yanagiwara Mansion taking his family name from its name.[2]

The descendants of Sukeakira began writing, and this became the family business.[3] Members of the family exceled in kidendō (the academic study of poetry) and were appointed bunshō-hakase (kidendō teachers). However, the hereditary succession of this position died out in 1471, Yanagiwara Kazumitsu being the last family member appointed bunshō-hakase.[2]

First Count of Yanagiwara, Yanagihara Sakimitsu

After the Meiji Restoration, the family was appointed to the kazoku (hereditary peerage) with the title of Count.[3] Count Yanagiwara Sakimitsu's sister, Yanagiwara Naruko, became a concubine of Emperor Meiji in 1873, and subsequently, the mother of Emperor Taishō.[4] Sakimitsu's daughter, Byakuren Yanagiwara, was a poet and novelist who rose to prominence in 1921 following the Byakuren incident.[5][6]

The family has branches such as Mushanokōji and Machijiri.[3]

Clan heads[]

  1. Yanagiwara Sukeakira (1297–1353)
  2. Yanagiwara Tadamitsu (1334–1379)
  3. Yanagiwara Sukehira (1363–1404)
  4. Yanagiwara Yukimitsu (1393–1443)
  5. (1417–1500)
  6. Yanagiwara Kazumitsu (1448–1510)
  7. (1495–1578)
  8. Yanagiwara Atsumitsu (1541–1597) (son of )
  9. Yanagiwara Sukeatsu (1580–1596)
  10. Yanagiwara Suketoshi (1584–1602)
  11. Yanagiwara Shigemitsu (1595–1654)
  12. Yanagiwara Sukeyuki (1621–1679)
  13. (1644–1712)
  14. Yanagiwara Hidemitsu (1664–1683)
  15. Yanagiwara Sukemoto (1685–1705)
  16. Yanagiwara Suketaka (1692–1716)
  17. Yanagiwara Mitsutsuna (1711–1760) (son of )
  18. Yanagiwara Motomitsu (1746–1800)
  19. Yanagiwara Tadamitsu (1772–1812)
  20. Yanagiwara Takamitsu (1793–1851)
  21. (1818–1885)
  22. Yanagiwara Sakimitsu (1850–1894)
  23. (1874–1946)
  24. (1889–1966) (son of )
  25. Yanagiwara Ukemitsu (1916–2011)
  26. Yanagiwara Yorimitsu (1940–2007)
  27. Yanagiwara Yūjirō (1967-)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ 平成新修旧華族家系大成 下巻. 霞会館. 1996. p. 761.
  2. ^ a b c d e Shimonaka, Kunihiko (1972). Sekai daihyakka jiten. Heibonsha. 柳原家.
  3. ^ a b c d Gibney, Frank (1996). Buritanika kokusai dai hyakka jiten. TBS Britannica. 柳原家.
  4. ^ Keene, Donald (2002). Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912. Columbia University Press. p. 320.
  5. ^ Encyclopedia Nipponica. Shōgakkan. 2001. 柳原白蓮. ISBN 4095260017.
  6. ^ Asahi Shinbunsha, Nenkan Jiten Henshūshitsu (2007). Asahi Gendai Yōgo Chiezō. Asahi Shinbunsha. 柳原白蓮. OCLC 227543839.
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