GosankyÅ
The Gosankyō (Japanese御 三 卿) were three branches of the Tokugawa family in the Japanese Edo period. All three houses date back to sons or grandsons of the eighth Tokugawa Shogun Yoshimune (1684-1751), who founded as a supplement, or as replacement, the three traditional Tokugawa side lines of Gosanke these three houses. His second son, Munetake, founded the Tayasu line (田 安家), his fourth son, Munetada, the Hitotsubashi line founded (一 桥 家), and his grandson Shigeyoshi, second son of the ninth Shogun Ieshige, founded the Shimizu- line ( 清水 家).
In contrast to the Gosanke that as an influential feudal lords ( daimyo ), the major Han Owari, Kishū and Mito controlled, had the Gosankyō not own Han, but resided in the area of Edo Castle and had income from the lands in the area of Edo that have been managed directly by the shogunate. The Gosankyo had the right, as the main line to carry the family name Tokugawa. The names of the individual lines are derived from the gates of Edo Castle, near which the lines each had their residence.
Your intended task to provide adoptierbare sons to secure the continuation of the Tokugawa dynasty, which Gosankyō met several times: The Shogun Tokugawa Ienari 11th and the 15th Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu came out of the house Hitotsubashi, said Yoshinobu itself out of the house Mito - Tokugawa was adopted because the Hitotsubashi himself had no heir. The Tayasu presented only after the Meiji Restoration, an heir to the Tokugawa main line, namely Tokugawa Iesato who rose to head of family of the Tokugawa after the resignation of Yoshinobu as Shogun and became an influential politician of the Meiji period.
Upon dissolution of the shogunate in the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the Tayasu and Hitotsubashi from the land of the Shogunate were able to secure their own land and the Tayasu -han (田安藩) and the Hitotsubashi -han (一 桥 藩) reasons. The time of the houses as feudal lords, however, lasted only briefly. After a peasant revolt, the country of Tayasu went a year later in the hands of the government, the Hitotsubashi with the dissolution of the Han in 1871. With the introduction of new noble ranks ( Kazoku ) 1884, the heads of the families were in the rank of Hakushaku ( Count ) levied.
Genealogy of Gosankyō
House Tayasu
House Shimizu
House Hitotsubashi
- Tokugawa
- Japanese aristocratic family
- Edo period