Ogasawara Naganari
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- In this Japanese name, the family name is Ogasawara.
Viscount Ogasawara Naganari (小笠原長生?) (December 15, 1867-September 20, 1958) was an Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Meiji period, serving on the Naval General Staff during the Russo-Japanese War.
Naganari was the author of Life of Admiral Togo,[1] a biography of Admiral Heihachiro Togo.
During the Edo period, the Ogasawara were identified as one of the fudai or insider daimyō clans which were hereditary vassels or allies of the Tokugawa,[2] in contrast with the tozama or outsider clans.
Naganari was the son of Ogasawara Nagamichi, the late Edo era rōjū.
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[edit] Ogasawara clan genealogy
Naganari was part of a cadet branch of the Ogasawara which was created in 1632.[2]
The fudai Ogasawara clan originated in 12th century Shinano province.[2] They claim descent from Takeda Yoshikiyo and the Seiwa-Genji.[3] Broadly, there are two genaological lines of the Ogasawara, the Matsuo and the Fukashi, each of which identify places in Shinano. The Matsuo line gave rise to the Ogasawara of Echizen, and the Fukashi line is ultimately established at the Ogasawara of Bunzen.[4]
The great grand-son of Yoshikiyo, Nagakiyo, was the first to take the name Ogasawara. The area controlled by his descendants grew to encompass the entire province of Shinano.[3]
Nagakiyo's grandson, Ogawawara Hidemasa (1569–1615), served Ieyasu; and in 1590, Hidemasa received Koga Domain (20,000 koku) in Shimōsa province. In 1601, Ieyasu transferred Hidemasa to Iida Domain (50,000 koku) in Shinano; then, in 1613, he was able to return to the home of his forebears, Fukashi Castle (80,000 koku),[3] now known as Matsumoto Castle.[5]
Nagashige was born into a cadet branch of the Ogasawara who were daimyō in 1632 at Kizuki Domain in Bungo province; in 1645 at Yoshida Domain in Mikawa province; in 1697 at Iwatsuki Domain in Musashi province; and in 1711 at Kakegawa Domain in Tōtōomi province. In 1747, Nagashige's heirs were transferred to Tanakura Domain in Mutsu province. In the years spanning 1817 through 1868, the descendants of this branch of the Ogasawara were daimyō at Karatsu Domain (60,000 koku) in Hizen province;[3] and Naganari was part of this branch of the clan.
The head of this clan line and his heirs were ennobled as a "Viscount" in the Meiji period.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Ogasawari, Naganari. (1934). Life of Admiral Togo. Tokyo: Seito shorin.
- ^ a b c Alpert, Georges. (1888). Ancien Japon, p.75.
- ^ a b c d e Papinot, Jacques. (2003). Nobiliare du Japon -- Ogasawara, pp. 44-45; Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon. (in French/German).
- ^ Varley, Paul. (1967). The Onin War: History of Its Origins and Background with a Selective Translation of the Chronicle of Ōnin, p. 81 n23.
- ^ Rowthorn, Chris. (2005). Japan, p. 245.
[edit] References
- Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888). Ancien Japon. Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha.
- 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)
- Turnbull, Stephen R. (2002). Samurai Heraldry. London: Osprey Publishing. 10-ISBN 1-841-76304-7 (paper)
- Varley, H. Paul. (1965). The Onin War: History of Its Origins and Background with a Selective Translation of the Chronicle of Ōnin New York Columbia University Press. 10-ISBN 0-231-02943-8; 13-ISBN 978-0-231-02943-8 (cloth)
