Asano clan

Asano clan
浅野

Asano clan mon
Home province Mino
Owari
Aki
Bingo
Harima
Parent house Minamoto clan
Toki clan
Titles Various
Founder Asano Mitsutoki (浅野光時)
Final ruler Asano Nagayuki (浅野長勲)
Current head Asano Nagataka (浅野長孝)
Founding year 1221
Ruled until 1868

The Asano clan (淺野氏, Asano-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Minamoto clan. The Main Lineage (sōke, 宗家) were Lords (daimyō) of the Hiroshima Domain in Aki Province and another famous branch family were Lords of the Akō Domain in Harima Province associated with the story of the Forty-seven rōnin. Their inherited character is "長". The family came to prominence when the sister of Asano Nagamasa married Toyotomi Hideyoshi.[1]

After the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system, the Asano clan became part of the new nobility.[2]

Origins

The Asano clan descend from the Toki clan (土岐氏) who claim descent from Minamoto no Yorimitsu (源頼光) of the Seiwa Genji (清和源氏). The Toki clan's main residence was in the Toki District (土岐郡) of Mino Province from which they took their name.

Minamoto no Mitsuhira (源光衡) was the third son of Minamoto no Mitsunaga (源光長) who was killed in battle during the Genpei War. His uncle Minamoto no Mitsumoto (源光基) adopted him and he founded the Toki clan becoming Toki Mitsuhira (土岐光衡). His first son Toki Mitsuyuki (土岐光行) continued the clan but his second son Toki Mitsutoki (土岐光時) took the name Asano and became founder of the Asano clan. He chose the name after the school he studied at called Asano school (浅野館).

Seiwa-tennō (清和天皇, 850–878)
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Sadazumi-shinnō (貞純親王, 873–916)
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Minamoto no Tsunemoto (源經基, 894–961)
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Minamoto no Mitsunaka (源満仲, 912?–997)
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Minamoto no Yorimitsu (源頼光, 948–1021)
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Minamoto no Yorikuni (源頼国, ?–1058?)
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Minamoto no Kunifusa (源国房, ?–1119)
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Minamoto no Mitsukuni (源光国, 1063–1148)
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Minamoto no Mitsunobu (源光信, 1093?–1145)
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Minamoto no Mitsunaga (源光長, ?–1184)
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Toki Mitsuhira (土岐光衡, 1159–1206)
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Asano Mitsutoki (浅野光時, ?–?)

Branches

Makabe Domain (真壁藩), Hitachi (50,000 koku)

Asano Nagamasa (1546–1611)

Kishū Domain (紀州藩), Kii (376,000 koku)

Asano Yoshinaga (1576–1613), 1st son of Asano Nagamasa

Mooka Domain (真岡藩), Shimotsuke (20,000 koku)

Kasama Domain (笠間藩), Hitachi (53,500 koku)

Hiroshima Domain (広島藩), Aki (426,500 koku)

Asano Nagaakira, first Asano daimyō of Hiroshima.
Asano Nagakoto, last daimyō of Hiroshima.

Hiroshima-Shinden Domain, Aki (30,000 koku)

Mihara Domain (三原藩), Bingo (30,000 koku)

Akō Domain (赤穂藩), Harima (53,000 koku)

Ukiyo-e depicting the assault of Asano Naganori on Kira Yoshinaka in the Matsu no Ōrōka of Edo Castle

Miyoshi Domain (三次藩), Bingo (50,000 koku)

Tōjō Domain (東城藩), Bingo (10,000 koku)

Significant Members

See also

References

  1. ↑ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Asano," Nobiliare du Japon, p. 3 [PDF 7 of 80]; retrieved 2013-5-4.
  2. ↑ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Matsudaira" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 29; retrieved 2013-7-11.


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