Miyake clan

Miyake clan
Miyake clan crest
Home province	Mikawa
Titles	daimyo, viscount
Final ruler	Miyake Yasuyoshi
Founding year	14th century
Dissolution	still extant
Ruled until	1873 (Abolition of the han system)

TheMiyake clan (三宅氏, Miyake-shi) were a samurai kin group which rose to prominence in the Sengoku period and the Edo periods. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the Miyake, as hereditary vassels of the Tokugawa clan, were classified as one of the fudai daimyō clans.

The Miyake claimed descent from the famed Kamakura Period warrior Kojima Takanori, during the 14th century, although this claim is somewhat tenuous. At the start of the Sengoku period, the Miyake were based in northern Mikawa Province, and were hereditary enemies to the neighboring Matsudaira clan. However, under the leadership of Miyake Masasada, the clan submitted to the Matsudaira in 1558. Masasada's son Yasusada (1544-1615) served as a general in the armies of Tokugawa Ieyasu. After the creation of the Tokugawa shogunate, he was appointed daimyō of Koromo Domain, a 10,000 koku fief in Mikawa Province in 1604. His son, Miyake Yasunobu (1563-1632) was transferred to the 20,000 koku Ise-Kameyama Domain in 1620. The Miyake were transferred back to Koromo from 1636-1664, and were subsequently moved to Tahara Domain (12,000 koku) in southern Mikawa Province in 1665, where they remained until the Meiji Restoration. The final daimyō of Tahara Domain, Miyake Yasuyoshi (1831-1895), served as guji to the Kunōzan Tōshō-gū under the Meiji government and was made a viscount (shishaku) in the kazoku peerage system.

References

• Papinot, Jacques Edmund Joseph. (1906) Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha...Click link for digitized 1906 Nobiliaire du japon (2003)
• Template:Ja icon "Miyake-shi" on Harimaya.com (24 March 2008)