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Asano

 

  • Domain: Hiroshima
  • Stipend: 426,000 koku
  • Class: Tozama 4
  • Headquarters: Hiroshima Castle (Flatland)

Family of daimyo descending from Toki's family of Mino and by them, from the Seiwa-Genji.

Elder branch.

Succession

  • Nagamasa (1546-1610)
  • Yoshinaga/Yukinaga (1576-1613) - 1st Asano daimyo of Wakayama (Kii -- 370,000 koku)
  • Nagaakira (1586-1632) - 2nd Asano daimyo of Wakayama; 1st Asano daimyo of Hiroshima (1619-1632)
  • Mitsuakira (daimyo 1632-1672)
  • Tsunaakira (1637-1673, daimyo 1672-1673)
  • Tsunanaga (1659-1708, daimyo 1673-1708)
  • Yoshinaga (daimyo 1708-1752)
  • Munetsune (daimyo 1752-1763)
  • Shigeakira (daimyo 1763-1799)
  • Narikata (daimyo 1799-1830)
  • Naritaka (daimyo 1831-1858)
  • Yoshiteru (daimyo 1858-1858)
  • Nagamichi (daimyo 1858-1869)
  • Nagakoto (1842-1937, daimyo 1869- )

Notable Ancestors

  • Asano Nagamasa (1546-1610)

Was the brother-in-law of Hideyoshi, whom he accompanied in his campaign against the Mori clan in San'yodo. In 1584 he intervened as pacifier between Hideyoshi and Ieyasu; the following year he was one of the five bugyo, and received the title of Danjo-shosuke. During the war against the Hojo of Odawara (1590) he fought in Kozuke and Musashi and took the castles of Iwatsuki, Edo, etc. Afterwards he took part in the expedition conducted by Hidetsugu against Tsugaru. During the Korean war he, together with Kuroda Yoshitaka, was intrusted with the office of inspector of the army (kangun). After the death of Hideyoshi, having relations with both parties, and not liking to join either of them, he withdrew from public life and lived in retirement in Fuchu (Musashi). In 1600, however, he followed Hidetada into Tosando, and, in return, received 10,000 koku as reward.

  • Asano Yoshinaga (1576-1613)

Eldest son of Nagamasa, served first Hideyoshi and accompanied his father during the war against the Hojo of Odawara, when, then only 15 years old, he served his first campaign, with Honda Tadamasa. Ishida Kazushige tried to implicate him in the plot of the Kanpaku Hidetsugu, but he was exculpated by Maeda Toshiie. During the expedition to Korea, he marched with Kato Kiyomasa, whom he succored at Urusan. On his return to Japan, when his father retired from public life, he received the fief of Fuchu (Kai -- 200,000 koku); and after Sekigahara (1600) was transferred to Wakayama (Kii --370,000 koku).

  • Asano Nagaakira (1586-1632)

Succeeded his brother Yukinaga, who died without children. Being a nephew of Hideyoshi, he was brought up at Osaka. For that reason, when the war broke out between Ieyasu and Hideyori, Ono Harunaga bestirred himself to make him take side with Hideyori. But Nagaakira joined the party of Ieyasu, distinguished himself at the siege of Osaka, and, as a trophy, brought back 42 heads of the enemies. In 1616 he was transferred to Hiroshima, where his descendants resided.

  • Asano Naganori (1667-1701)

Takumi no kami, in 1700 had been commissioned with Kira Yoshinaka, Kozuke no suke, to receive and entertain the envoys of the emperor Higashi-yama and of the ex-emperor Reigen at the court of the Shogun. Yoshinaka, whose office corresponded to that of master of ceremonies at the palace of Edo, was well versed in the laws of etiquette to be observed in such a circumstance, and it was the custom that his colleagues should give him some presents in order to get instruction from him and be thus enabled to avoid any error against those rules. Naganori, not willing to submit to such a custom, abstained from giving any present. Yoshinaka, deeply offended, did not spare his colleague humiliations and disobliging remarks. One day he went so far as to rebuke him severely in public: Naganori lost patience and, drawing the little sword (wakizashi) which he carried in his belt, he struck Yoshinaka and wounded him in the forehead. The bystanders hastened to separate the adversaries; but the Shogun Tsunayoshi had Naganori immediately arrested and banished to Ichinoseki (Mutsu), the castle of Tamura Nobuaki. It was at that place that the rochu Tsuchiya Masanao officially invited him to commit suicide by harakiri. As to his family, it was dispossessed of the domains in Harima. The following year, 47 samurai of the Ako clan, led by Oishi Yoshio (Kuranosuke), revenged their master by killing Yoshinaka in his own house.

Related Branches

  • Cadet branch: Hiroshima-Shinden (Aki -- 30,000 koku)

Sources

 

 

Asano

 

  • Domain: Hiroshima-Shinden
  • Stipend: 30,000 koku
  • Class: Tozama 5
  • Headquarters: Municipal office

Family of daimyo descending from Toki's family of Mino and by them, from the Seiwa-Genji.

Cadet branch.

Succession

  • Nagamasa (1546-1610)
  • Yoshinaga/Yukinaga (1576-1613) - 1st Asano daimyo of Wakayama (Kii -- 370,000 koku)
  • Nagaakira (1586-1632) - 2nd Asano daimyo of Wakayama; 1st Asano daimyo of Hiroshima (1619-1632)
  • Mitsuakira (daimyo 1632-1672)
  • Tsunaakira (1637-1673, daimyo 1672-1673)
  • Tsunanaga (1659-1708, daimyo 1673-1708)
  • Nagakata - 1st Asano daimyo of Hiroshima-Shinden
  • Nagataka
  • Nagakazu
  • Nagakane
  • Nagamichi
  • Nagaoki
  • Nagaatsu

Notable Ancestors

  • Asano Nagamasa (1546-1610)

Was the brother-in-law of Hideyoshi, whom he accompanied in his campaign against the Mori clan in San'yodo. In 1584 he intervened as pacifier between Hideyoshi and Ieyasu; the following year he was one of the five bugyo, and received the title of Danjo-shosuke. During the war against the Hojo of Odawara (1590) he fought in Kozuke and Musashi and took the castles of Iwatsuki, Edo, etc. Afterwards he took part in the expedition conducted by Hidetsugu against Tsugaru. During the Korean war he, together with Kuroda Yoshitaka, was intrusted with the office of inspector of the army (kangun). After the death of Hideyoshi, having relations with both parties, and not liking to join either of them, he withdrew from public life and lived in retirement in Fuchu (Musashi). In 1600, however, he followed Hidetada into Tosando, and in return received 10,000 koku as reward.

  • Asano Yoshinaga (1576-1613)

Eldest son of Nagamasa, served first Hideyoshi and accompanied his father during the war against the Hojo of Odawara, when, then only 15 years old, he served his first campaign, with Honda Tadamasa. Ishida Kazushige tried to implicate him in the plot of the Kanpaku Hidetsugu, but he was exculpated by Maeda Toshiie. During the expedition to Korea, he marched with Kato Kiyomasa, whom he succored at Urusan. On his return to Japan, when his father retired from public life, he received the fief of Fuchu (Kai -- 200,000 koku); and after Sekigahara (1600) was transferred to Wakayama (Kii --370,000 koku).

  • Asano Nagaakira (1586-1632)

Succeeded his brother Yukinaga, who died without children. Being a nephew of Hideyoshi, he was brought up at Osaka. For that reason, when the war broke out between Ieyasu and Hideyori, Ono Harunaga bestirred himself to make him take side with Hideyori. But Nagaakira joined the party of Ieyasu, distinguished himself at the siege of Osaka, and, as a trophy, brought back 42 heads of the enemies. In 1616 he was transferred to Hiroshima, where his descendants resided.

  • Asano Naganori (1667-1701)

Takumi no kami, in 1700 had been commissioned with Kira Yoshinaka, Kozuke no suke, to receive and entertain the envoys of the emperor Higashi-yama and of the ex-emperor Reigen at the court of the Shogun. Yoshinaka, whose office corresponded to that of master of ceremonies at the palace of Edo, was well versed in the laws of etiquette to be observed in such a circumstance, and it was the custom that his colleagues should give him some presents in order to get instruction from him and be thus enabled to avoid any error against those rules. Naganori, not willing to submit to such a custom, abstained from giving any present. Yoshinaka, deeply offended, did not spare his colleague humiliations and disobliging remarks. One day he went so far as to rebuke him severely in public: Naganori lost patience and, drawing the little sword (wakizashi) which he carried in his belt, he struck Yoshinaka and wounded him in the forehead. The bystanders hastened to separate the adversaries; but the Shogun Tsunayoshi had Naganori immediately arrested and banished to Ichinoseki (Mutsu), the castle of Tamura Nobuaki. It was at that place that t he rochu Tsuchiya Masanao officially invited him to commit suicide by harakiri. As to his family, it was dispossessed of the domains in Harima. The following year, 47 samurai of the Ako clan, led by Oishi Yoshio (Kuranosuke), revenged their master by killing Yoshinaka in his own house.

Related Branches

  • Elder branch: Hiroshima (Aki -- 426,000 koku)

Sources

 

 

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