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Matsudaira (Toda)

 

  • Domain: Matsumoto
  • Stipend: 60,000 koku
  • Class: Fudai 4
  • Headquarters: Matsumoto Castle (Flatland)

Daimyo family from Mikawa and descended from Fujiwara (Sanjo) Sanefusa (1146-1224)

Senior branch.

Succession

  • Munemitsu
  • Norimitsu
  • Masamitsu
  • Yasumitsu
  • Yoshimitsu
  • Shigesada
  • Yasunaga (1562-1632) - Daimyo of Koga (Shimosa -- 20,000 koku); daimyo of Kasama (Hitachi -- 30,000 koku); daimyo of Takasaki (Kozuke -- 20,000 koku); 1st Matsudaira daimyo of Matsumoto (Shinano -- 70,000 koku), first tenure
  • Yasunao - 2nd Matsudaira daimyo of Matsumoto; 1st Matsudaira daimyo of Akashi (Harima -- 70,000 koku)
  • Mitsushige - 2nd Matsudaira daimyo of Akashi; 1st Matsudaira daimyo of Kano (Mino -- 70,000 koku)
  • Mitsunaga
  • Mitsuhiro - 3rd Matsudaira daimyo of Kano; 1st Matsudaira daimyo of Yodo (Yamashiro -- 60,000 koku)
  • Mitsuchika - 2nd Matsudaira daimyo of Yodo; daimyo of Toba (Shima -- 70,000 koku); 1st Matsudaira daimyo of Matsumoto, second tenure
  • Mitsuo
  • Mitsuyasu
  • Mitsumasa
  • Mitsuyoshi
  • Mitsuyuki
  • Mitsutsura
  • Mitsutsune
  • Mitsuhisa

Notable Ancestors

  • Toda Munemitsu

1st lord of Ueno (Mikawa). Towards 1495 he constructed the castle of Tawara (Mikawa), which his descendants kept for several generations.

  • Matsudaira Yasunaga (1562-1632)

Served Ieyasu, who allowed his family to assume the name of Matsudaira. After Sekigahara (1600) he received the fief of Koga (Shimosa -- 20,000 koku); then in 1609 he was transferred to Minagawa (Shimotsuke); in 1612 to Kasama (Hitachi); in 1616 to Takasaki (Kozuke); in 1617 to Matsumoto (Shinano -- 60,000 koku).

In 1633 his descendants lived at Akashi (Harima); in 1639 at Kano (Mino); in 1711 at Yodo (Yamashiro); in 1717 at Toba (Shima); finally from 1725 at Matsumoto (Shinano -- 60,000 koku).

Related Branches

  • Junior branch: Utsunomiya (Shimotsuke -- 77,000 koku)
  • Branch: Ashikaga (Shimotsuke - 10,000 koku)
  • Branch: Ogaki (Mino -- 100,000 koku)
  • Branch: Nomura (Mino -- 13,000 koku)

Sources

 


 

Makino

 

  • Domain: Komoro
  • Stipend: 15,000 koku
  • Class: Fudai 5
  • Headquarters: Komoro Castle (Hilltop)

Daimyo family that came from Mikawa and descended from Takechi-uchi no Sukune.

Junior branch, resided in 1634 at Yoita (Echigo); then from 1702 at Komoro.

Succession

  • Narisada (1526-1567)
  • Yasunari (1555-1609)
  • Tadanari
  • Yasunari - 1st Makino daimyo of Yoita (Echigo -- 10,000 koku)
  • Yasumichi
  • Yasushige - 3rd Makino daimyo of Yoita; 1st Makino daimyo of Komoro
  • Yasuchika
  • Yasumitsu
  • Yasuyori
  • Yasutomo
  • Yasunaga
  • Yasuakira
  • Yasunori
  • Yasutoshi
  • Yasumasa

Related Branches

  • Senior branch: Nagaoka (Echigo -- 74,000 koku)
  • Junior branch: Mineyama (Echigo -- 11,000 koku)
  • Branch: Kasama (Hitachi -- 80,000 koku)

Sources

 


 

Matsudaira (Fujii)

 

  • Domain: Ueda
  • Stipend: 53,000 koku
  • Class: Fudai 5
  • Headquarters: Ueda Castle (Flatland)

Family issued from Toshinaga ( -1560), which, residing at Fujii (Mikawa) took the name of that place.

Junior branch issued from Tadaharu. Resided successively: in 1642 at Tanaka (Suruga -- 18,000 koku); in 1644 at Kakegawa (Totomi -- 28,000 koku); in 1648 at Kameyama (Tanba); in 1680 at Iwatsuki (Musashi -- 38,000 koku); in 1697 at Izushi (Tajima); lastly from 1706 at Ueda.

Succession

  • Toshinaga
  • Nobukazu (1548-1632)
  • Nobuyoshi (1576-1621)
  • Tadaharu (1598-1669) - Daimyo of Tanaka (Suruga -- 25,000 koku); daimyo of Kakegawa (Tanba -- 25,000 koku); 1st Matsudaira daimyo of Kameyama (Tanba -- 38,000 koku)
  • Tadaaki
  • Tadachika - 3rd Matsudaira daimyo of Kameyama; daimyo of Iwatsuki (Musashi -- 48,000 koku); daimyo of Izushi (Tajima -- 48,000 koku); 1st Matsudaira daimyo of Ueda
  • Tadazane
  • Tadayori
  • Tadamasa
  • Tadasato
  • Tadakata
  • Tadanari

Notable Ancestors

  • Matsudaira Nobukazu (1548-1632)

Accompanied Ieyasu into Kanto, settled at Nunokawa (Shimosa); then in 1601 was transferred to Tsuchiura (Hitachi -- 30,000 koku); in 1617 to Takasaki (Kozuke -- 50,000 koku); and in 1619 to Sasayama (Tanba). The two sons of Nobuyoshi became each the head of a branch of the family.

Related Branches

  • Senior branch: Kamiyama (Dewa -- 30,000 koku)

Sources

 


 

Honda

 

  • Domain: Iiyama
  • Stipend: 35,000 koku
  • Class: Fudai 5
  • Headquarters: Iiyama Castle

Daimyo family native of Mikawa and descended from the Fujiwara.

Succession

  • Yasushige (1554-1611) - 1st Honda daimyo of Okazaki (Mikawa -- 50,000 koku)
  • Yasunori
  • Tadatoshi
  • Toshinaga - 4th Honda daimyo of Okazaki; daimyo of Yokosuka (Totomi -- 50,000 koku)
  • Sukeyoshi - Daimyo of Itoigawa (Echigo -- 10,000 koku); 1st Honda daimyo of Iiyama
  • Yasuakira
  • Sukemochi
  • Sukemitsu
  • Suketsugu
  • Suketoshi
  • Sukezane
  • Sukeshige
  • Suketaka (unranked)
  • Sukezane

Notable Ancestors

  • Honda Yasushige (1554-1611)

Bungo no kami and, in 1590, daimyo of Shirai (Kozuke), was transferred in 1601 to Okazaki (Mikawa -- 50,000 koku).

His descendants resided in 1645 at Yokosuka (Totomi); in 1682 at Murayama (Dewa); in 1701 at Itoigawa (Echigo); finally since 1717 at Iiyama.

Sources

 


 

Naito

 

  • Domain: Takato
  • Stipend: 33,000 koku
  • Class: Fudai 5
  • Headquarters: Takato Castle (Hilltop)

Family of daimyo, native of Mikawa and descended from Fujiwara Hidesato.

Branch which from 1691 resided at Takato.

Succession

  • Yoshikiyo
  • Tadasato
  • Tadamasa
  • Kiyonari
  • Kiyomasa/Kiyotsugu
  • Masakatsu - 2nd Naito daimyo of Katsuyama (Awa -- 30,000 koku)
  • Kiyokazu (1646-1714) - 2nd Naito daimyo of Katsuyama; 1st Naito daimyo of Takato (1691-1714)
  • Yorinori
  • Yoriyuki
  • Yoritaka
  • Nagayoshi
  • Yorimochi
  • Yoriyasu
  • Yorinao

Related Branches

  • Eldest branch: Nobeoka (Hyuga -- 70,000 koku)
  • Younger branch: Unagaya (Mutsu -- 14,000 koku)
  • Branch: Koromo (Mikawa -- 20,000 koku)
  • Branch: Murakami (Echigo -- 50,000 koku)
  • Branch: Iwamurata (Shinano -- 15,000 koku)
  • Branch: Toba (Shima -- 32,000 koku)

Sources

 


 

Sanada

 

  • Domain: Matsushiro
  • Stipend: 100,000 koku
  • Class: Tozama 4
  • Headquarters: Matsushiro Castle (Flatland)

Daimyo family coming from Shinano and descended from the Seiwa-Genji.

Succession

  • Yukitaka (1512-1574)
  • Masayuki (1544-1608) - 1st Sanada daimyo of Ueda (Shinano -- 95,000 koku) (1585-1600)
  • Nobuyuki (1566-1658) - 2nd Sanada daimyo of Ueda (1600-1622); 1st Sanada daimyo of Matsushiro (1616-1656)
  • Nobumasa
  • Yukimichi
  • Nobuhiro
  • Nobuyasu
  • Yukihiro
  • Yukitaka
  • Yukitsura
  • Yukinori
  • Yukitami

Notable Ancestors

  • Sanada Yukitaka (1512-1574)

Son of Unno Munetsuna, castellan of Iwao (Shinano), settled at Sanada and took the name of the place at the beginning of the 16th century.

  • Sanada Masayuki (1544-1608)

Son of Yukitaka, served first Takeda Shingen, who entrusted the castle of Ueda to his care. After the ruin of the Takeda (1582) he offered his services to Ieyasu, but the latter wanted to despoil him of his domains in order to give them to Hojo Ujinao, whose help he was then soliciting in his campaign against Hideyoshi (1584). Masayuki, irritated, asked help of Uesugi Kagekatsu, and defeated both the troops of Ujinao and of Ieyasu. In 1586 the latter came to besiege Ueda, but Masayuki, through the good intervention of Hideyoshi, obtained peace. During the Sekigahara war (1600) he sided with Ishida Kazushige, and sent his eldest son Nobuyuki to follow the party of Ieyasu, but his son obtained a commutation and he was banished to Kudoyama (Kii), where he died.

  • Sanada Nobuyuki (1566-1658)

Eldest son of Masayuki, was sent as a hostage to Hamamatsu upon his father's submission to Ieyasu. The latter gave him the daughter of Honda Tadakatsu in marriage, whom he had educated. In 1600 he sided with Ieyasu and received the castle of Ueda (Shinano) and Numata (Kozuke) with a revenue of 65,000 koku. In 1622 he was transferred to Matsushiro where his descendants remained.

  • Sanada Yukimura (1570-1615)

2nd son of Masayuki, married to the daughter of Otani Yoshitaka, served Hideyoshi. In 1600 he induced his father to side with him against Ieyasu, and afte the campaign, was exiled to Kudoyama (Kii). When Ieyasu turned against Hideyori, he recalled him, but Yukimura declined to come and went to Osaka. There, he greatly helped in the defense of the place, defeated Date Masamune at Hirano, then, seeing that all resistance was useless, he attacked the troops of Honda Tadatomo, and found his death on the battlefield.

Sources

 


 

Suwa

 

  • Domain: Takashima
  • Stipend: 30,000 koku
  • Class: Fudai 5
  • Headquarters: Takashima Castle (Flatland)

Daimyo family coming from Shinano and descended from Minamoto Mitsumasa, brother of Mitsunaka (Seiwa-Genji).

Succession

  • Minamoto Mitsumasa
  • ...
  • Morishige
  • ...
  • Yorishige (1516-1542)
  • ...
  • Yoritada (1536-1606)
  • ...
  • Yorimizu - 1st Suwa daimyo of Takashima
  • Tadatsune
  • Tadaharu
  • Tadatora
  • Tadatoki
  • Tadaatsu
  • Tadataka
  • Tadamichi
  • Tadamasa
  • Tadaaya

Notable Ancestors

  • Suwa Morishige

Descended from Mitsumasa in the 9th generation, was the first to take the name of Suwa, from the district of Shinano where he settled, and where his family remained for several centuries.

  • Suwa Yorishige (1516-1542)

For a long time fought Takeda Shingen, who coveted his domains. After making peace he went to Kofu, was treacherously arrested by Itagaki Nobukata, and killed himself.

  • Suwa Yoritada (1536-1606)

Served Ieyasu, who in 1592 gave him the fief of Sosha (Kozuke -- 15,000 koku). In 1601 he returned to Suwa, where his descendants remained.

Sources

 


 

Hori

 

  • Domain: Susaka
  • Stipend: 10,000 koku
  • Class: Tozama 5
  • Headquarters: Municipal office

Family of daimyo descended from Minamoto Yoshiuji (1189-1254) (Seiwa-Genji). At the end of the 16th century they took the name of Hori.

Branch of Naoshige ( -1615), who was killed in the siege of Osaka. From 1615 the family resided at Susaka.

Succession

  • Minamoto Yoshiuji (1189-1254)
  • ...
  • Naomasa ( -1608)
  • Naoshige ( -1615) - 1st Hori daimyo of Susaka
  • Naomasu
  • Naoteru
  • Naosuke
  • Naohide
  • Naohiro
  • Naokata
  • Naosato
  • Naoteru
  • Naooki
  • Naotada
  • Naotake
  • Naotora (1836-1868, daimyo 1861-1868)

  • Naoakira

Notable Ancestors

  • Hori Naomasa ( -1608)

On entering the service of Hori Hidemasa, he changed his family name of Okuda to Hori. Later on he served Hideyoshi, who in 1598 confided the castle of Sanjo (Echigo -- 50,000 koku) to him.

Related Branches

  • Eldest branch: Muramatsu (Echigo -- 30,000 koku)
  • Branch of Naoyuki: Shiiya (Echigo -- 10,000 koku)

Sources

 


 

Naito

 

  • Domain: Iwamurada
  • Stipend: 15,000 koku
  • Class: Fudai 5
  • Headquarters: Iwamurada Castle (incomplete)

Family of daimyo, native of Mikawa and descended from Fujiwara Hidesato.

Branch from 1693 resided at Iwamurada.

Succession

  • Yoshikiyo
  • Tadasato
  • Tadamasa
  • Masatsugu
  • Masakatsu
  • Masatomo - 1st Naito daimyo of Iwamurata
  • Masayuki
  • Masasuke
  • Masaoki
  • Masakuni
  • Masatsuna
  • Masaakira

Related Branches

  • Eldest branch: Nobeoka (Hyuga -- 70,000 koku)
  • Younger branch: Unagaya (Mutsu -- 14,000 koku)
  • Branch: Koromo (Mikawa -- 20,000 koku)
  • Branch: Murakami (Echigo -- 50,000 koku)
  • Branch: Takato (Shinano -- 33,000 koku)
  • Branch: Toba (Shima -- 32,000 koku)

Sources

 


 

Hori

 

  • Domain: Iida
  • Stipend: 17,000 koku
  • Class: Tozama 5
  • Headquarters: Iida Castle

Daimyo family descended from Fujiwara Uona and native of Mino.

Younger branch.

Succession

  • Fujiwara Uona
  • ...
  • Hidemasa
  • Chikayoshi (1580-1637) - 1st Hori daimyo of Karasuyama (Shimotsuke -- 20,000 koku)
  • Chikamasa - 2nd Hori daimyo of Karasuyama; 1st Hori daimyo of Iida
  • Chikasada
  • Chikatsune
  • Chikakata
  • Chikanobu
  • Chikatada
  • Chikanaga
  • Chikatada
  • Chikatami
  • Chikashige
  • Chikayoshi
  • Chikahiro

Notable Ancestors

  • Hori Chikayoshi (1580-1637)

Daimyo of Zoo (now Nagaoka) (Echigo -- 40,000 koku). He was dispossessed at the same time as his nephew Tadatoshi, but two years later he received the little fief of Moka (Shimotsuke), and in 1627 that of Karasuyama (Shimotsuke).

In 1672 his descendants were transferred to Iida (Shinano -- 17,000 koku), and remained there.

Related Branches

  • Eldest branch: Takata (Echigo -- 350,000 koku)

Sources

 


 

Matsudaira (Ogyu)

 

  • Domain: Tanoguchi
  • Stipend: 16,000 koku
  • Class: Fudai 4
  • Headquarters: Municipal office

Succession

  • Norimoto
  • Norimasa
  • Norikatsu
  • Chikanori
  • Sanenori
  • Sanetsugu
  • Noritsugu (1632-1687) - 1st Matsudaira daimyo of Okudono (Mikawa -- 16,000 koku)
  • Norinari(1658-1703)
  • Norizane(1686-1716)
  • Mitsunori(1716-1742)
  • Noriyasu(1739-1783)
  • Noritomo(1760-1824)
  • Noritada(1777-1818)
  • Noriyoshi(1791-1827)
  • Noritoshi(1811-1854)
  • Norikata (1839-1910) - 10th Matsudaira daimyo of Okudono; 1st Matsudaira daimyo of Tanoguchi
  • Noritake

Sources

 

 

 


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