Tamura clan
| Tamura clan 田村氏 | |
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| Home province | Mutsu |
| Parent house | Sakanoue clan (original line) Date clan (restored line) |
| Titles | Various |
| Dissolution | 1590 (original line) still extant (restored line) |
Tamura clan (田村氏, Tamura-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan[1]
It was part of the fighting in Mutsu Province (northern Honshū). The Tamura became part of the Date clan through intermarriage, and despite the family's abolishment in the Azuchi-Momoyama period, it was revived in the Edo period as an independent family of daimyo closely connected to the Date of Sendai.[citation needed]
Origins
The Tamura clan claimed descent from Sakanoue no Tamuramaro.[1]
Sengoku period
In 1504, the Tamura clan moved from Moriyama to Miharu Castle. As a defense network, the clan set up its retainers in forty-eight subsidiary castles and outposts in the area.[citation needed]
The Tamura line was abolished by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1590, in punishment for Date Masamune's lateness to the Siege of Odawara.[citation needed]
Date Masamune dispossessed the Tamura in 1598; and then he chose his grandson Date Muneyoshi to continue the Tamura name.[1]
Edo period
In 1695, Tamura Takeaki, son of Muneyoshi, was made head of Ichinoseki Domain (27.000 koku) in Mutsu Province.[1] This was a small domain in the middle of the Sendai domain's northern half.[2]
Ichinoseki domain forces took part in the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei's attack on the Akita Domain in the late summer of 1868.[3]
In the Meiji era, the former Tamura lord of Ichinoseki, Tamura Takaaki, was created viscount in the new kazoku peerage system.[4]
Family Heads
Main line (Ichinoseki)
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As lord of Iwanuma
As lord of Ichinoseki
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Notable retainers
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Notes
- ^ a b c d Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). ("Shiba," Nobiliare du Japon, p. 59 [PDF 63 of 80]; retrieved 2013-5-3.
- ^ Onodera, Eikō (2005). Boshin Nanboku sensō to Tōhoku seiken (Sendai: Kita no Mori), p. 134.
- ^ Onodera, p. 194.
- ^ Koyasu Nobushige (1880), Buke kazoku meiyoden vol. 1 (Tokyo: Koyasu Nobushige), p. 21. (Accessed from National Diet Library, 13 August 2008)
Further reading
- Koyasu Nobushige (1880). Buke kazoku meiyoden 武家家族名誉伝 Volume 1. Tokyo: Koyasu Nobushige. (Accessed from National Diet Library, 13 August 2008)
- Onodera, Eikō (2005). Boshin Nanboku sensō to Tōhoku seiken. Sendai: Kita no Mori.