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Ishikawa clan
Ishikawa clan (Japanese: 石川氏, Hepburn: Ishikawa-shi) is a Japanese samurai family which descended from the Seiwa Genji.
The clan traces its history from Minamoto no Yoshiie through his son Minamoto no Yoshitoki.
The Ishikawa district of Kawachi Province is named after them. In the Sengoku Period, the family had two major branches; one of them, which had settled in Mikawa Province in the 15th century, was a family of retainers serving what became the Tokugawa clan. Ishikawa Kazumasa, one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's senior retainers, was famous in his era for suddenly leaving Tokugawa service and pledging loyalty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. However, as Kazumasa's son Yasunaga became implicated in the Ōkubo Yasunaga incident, his branch of the Ishikawa of Mikawa came to an end then. The Mikawa-Ishikawa line continued through Kazumasa's uncle Ienari, Ienari's descendants eventually came to rule the Ise-Kameyama Domain for most of the Edo period.[citation needed]
The other branch of the family, which had established itself in Kawachi Province, was the ancestor of the Nakagawa clan, which ruled the Oka Domain for the entirety of the Edo period.[citation needed]
Ishikawa clan was a samurai family from the mid-Heian period to the Warring States period (Japan). The clan's original surname was Genji. The family was descended from Minamoto no Yorito, a son of Minamoto no Yorichika, as the progenitor of the clan, in a line of Yamato Genji, a branch of Seiwa-Genji. The Ishikawa clan was often called the Mutsu Ishikawa clan so as not to be confused with other Ishikawa clans.
In 1051, Yorito, together with his son Minamoto no Arimitsu, went to Oshu (Northern Honshu, the region encompassing Mutsu and Dewa provinces) following the Governor of Mutsu Province, Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, to serve in Zen Kunen no Eki (Former Nine Years' Campaign.) Arimitsu directed the army in place of Yorito, who was killed in the battlefield of Kuriyagawa. In 1063, Arimitsu was appointed to Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade, Governor of Aki Province and granted the land of Shirakawa-gun County in Mutsu Province (later Iwaki no kuni) for distinguished war service. He constructed Miyoshi-jo Castle in Ishikawa-go district and lived there, when he took the family name Ishikawa.
When the sixth head of the family Ishikawa Hirosue heard that Minamoto no Yoritomo raised an army to defeat the Taira family in Izu, he dispatched an army headed by his uncle Mitsuharu to Kamakura in 1183. In 1188, when Yoritomo advanced to the Shirakawa Barrier to attack the Oshu-Fujiwara clan, he visited the Kawabe Hachiman-gu Shrine in the land of Ishikawa and prayed for a victory, and after three days' stay, headed for the battlefield of Mt. Atsukashi in Date-gun County. Yoritomo suppressed Oshu, and visited the shrine on his triumphant return to offer a donation.
Ishikawa Tokimitsu, the thirtieth head of the family, sent an army headed by his eldest son Ishikawa Yoshimitsu to join the shogunate government overthrowing army headed by Nittq Yoshisada. When the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) fell and the Kenmu Restoration started in 1333, Ishikawa Tokimitsu went up to Kyoto and was appointed to Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade, the Imperial Household Secretary by the new government, and Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade, the Master of the Palace Table in 1334.
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Ishikawa clan
Ishikawa clan (Japanese: 石川氏, Hepburn: Ishikawa-shi) is a Japanese samurai family which descended from the Seiwa Genji.
The clan traces its history from Minamoto no Yoshiie through his son Minamoto no Yoshitoki.
The Ishikawa district of Kawachi Province is named after them. In the Sengoku Period, the family had two major branches; one of them, which had settled in Mikawa Province in the 15th century, was a family of retainers serving what became the Tokugawa clan. Ishikawa Kazumasa, one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's senior retainers, was famous in his era for suddenly leaving Tokugawa service and pledging loyalty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. However, as Kazumasa's son Yasunaga became implicated in the Ōkubo Yasunaga incident, his branch of the Ishikawa of Mikawa came to an end then. The Mikawa-Ishikawa line continued through Kazumasa's uncle Ienari, Ienari's descendants eventually came to rule the Ise-Kameyama Domain for most of the Edo period.[citation needed]
The other branch of the family, which had established itself in Kawachi Province, was the ancestor of the Nakagawa clan, which ruled the Oka Domain for the entirety of the Edo period.[citation needed]
Ishikawa clan was a samurai family from the mid-Heian period to the Warring States period (Japan). The clan's original surname was Genji. The family was descended from Minamoto no Yorito, a son of Minamoto no Yorichika, as the progenitor of the clan, in a line of Yamato Genji, a branch of Seiwa-Genji. The Ishikawa clan was often called the Mutsu Ishikawa clan so as not to be confused with other Ishikawa clans.
In 1051, Yorito, together with his son Minamoto no Arimitsu, went to Oshu (Northern Honshu, the region encompassing Mutsu and Dewa provinces) following the Governor of Mutsu Province, Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, to serve in Zen Kunen no Eki (Former Nine Years' Campaign.) Arimitsu directed the army in place of Yorito, who was killed in the battlefield of Kuriyagawa. In 1063, Arimitsu was appointed to Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade, Governor of Aki Province and granted the land of Shirakawa-gun County in Mutsu Province (later Iwaki no kuni) for distinguished war service. He constructed Miyoshi-jo Castle in Ishikawa-go district and lived there, when he took the family name Ishikawa.
When the sixth head of the family Ishikawa Hirosue heard that Minamoto no Yoritomo raised an army to defeat the Taira family in Izu, he dispatched an army headed by his uncle Mitsuharu to Kamakura in 1183. In 1188, when Yoritomo advanced to the Shirakawa Barrier to attack the Oshu-Fujiwara clan, he visited the Kawabe Hachiman-gu Shrine in the land of Ishikawa and prayed for a victory, and after three days' stay, headed for the battlefield of Mt. Atsukashi in Date-gun County. Yoritomo suppressed Oshu, and visited the shrine on his triumphant return to offer a donation.
Ishikawa Tokimitsu, the thirtieth head of the family, sent an army headed by his eldest son Ishikawa Yoshimitsu to join the shogunate government overthrowing army headed by Nittq Yoshisada. When the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) fell and the Kenmu Restoration started in 1333, Ishikawa Tokimitsu went up to Kyoto and was appointed to Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade, the Imperial Household Secretary by the new government, and Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade, the Master of the Palace Table in 1334.