Suwa clan

The Suwa clan (Japanese诹 访 氏, Suwa- shi) was a Japanese noble house, which was derived from Minamoto Mitsumasa, a brother of Mitsunaka ( Seiwa Genji ). In the 9th generation of Mitsumasa descended, took Morishige for the first time the name Suwa. Home province of the clan was Shinano, where she particularly in the Sengoku period often with their neighbors from the province of Kai, the Takeda clan in armed conflicts clashed. They rose again to the rank of an independent Feudalherrenhauses, Sengoku daimyo After their military subjugation by Takeda Shingen Takeda they served some time as a vassal house, after the crushing defeat of the Takeda at the Battle of Nagashino however. Yoritada (1536-1606), who fought on the Tokugawa Ieyasu's side, first awarded in 1592 Sosha ( province Kozuke ) with 15,000 koku, could then return to the beginning of the Edo period that follows the (han ) Suwa in Shinano Province, where his income was increased to 30,000 koku. The Suwa resided there until the Meiji Restoration and were given after the title of viscount.

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  • " Suwa- shi " on Harimaya.com (1st March 2008)
  • " Takashima -han " on Edo 300 HTML (1st March 2008)
  • ( Samurai Archives, October 17, 2013)
  • (Google eBook: Yasushi Inoue: " The Samurai Banner of Fu - Rin -Ka- Zan " p.25 ( book on the campaigns of the Takeda ) Chapter: " The Conquest of Suwa " )
  • (Google e -book: Kären Wigen " The Making of a Japanese Periphery 1750-1920 ", p.32 ( with the agreement of the area Suwa Suwa Lake at the Suwa in the beginning of the Edo period ) )
  • Papinot, E.: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the edition of 1911 by Tuttle, 1977. ISBN 0-8048-0996-8.
  • Clan of the Sengoku period
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