Yūki clan
Yūki clan (結城氏, Yūki-shi) is a Japanese samurai kin group.[1]
| Yūki 結城 | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Home province | Shimōsa Mutsu |
| Parent house | Ashikaga clan (Fujiwara) |
| Founder | Yūki Tomomitsu |
| Cadet branches | Yūki Shimōsa Yūki Shirakawa |
History
The Yūki claim descent from Fujiwara no Hidesato.[2]
The clan is composed of two branches: the Shimōsa Yūki and the Shirakawa Yūki.[2] The split happened during the Nanboku-chō period. One branch supported the Southern Imperial Court, and the other branch the Northern Pretenders.
Like many samurai clans, the Yūki developed a code of provincial laws (bunkoku-hō). In 1556, Yūki Masakatsu published New Laws of the Yūki family (結城氏法度, Yūki-shi Hatto).[3]
The Shirakawa branch was destroyed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi;[2] but the Shimōsa branch survived as daimyōs of Yūki Domain in Shimōsa Province.
The Shimōsa Yūki became part of the Tokugawa clan.[2]
The main samurai vassals of the Yūki (Yūki shi-ten) included the Tagaya clan, the Mizutani clan, the Yamakawa clan and the Iwakami clan.[4]
Select list
- Yūki Tomomitsu, 1168-1254, 1st head of Yūki Domain[2]
- Yūki Tomohiro, son of Tomomitsu[2]
- Yūki Hirotsugu, son of Tomohiro[1]
- Yūki Sukehiro, son of Tomohiro at Shirakawa in Mutsu, 1298[1]
- Yūki Munehiro, d. c. 1340[2]
- Yūki Chikatomo, d. 1347[2]
- Yūki Chikamitsu, d. 1336[2]
- Yūki Akitomo, d. c. 1370, son of Chikatomo[1]
- Yūki Ujitomo, 1398-1441[2]
- Yūki Noritomo, 1439-1462[2]
- Yūki Masatomo, 1477-1545[2]
- Yūki Masakatsu, 1504-1559[2]
- Yūki Harutomo, 1534-1616, adopted son of Oyama Taketomo[1]
- Yūki Hideyasu,[1] adopted son of Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Yūki Naomoto[1]
See also
- Yūki Kassen Ekotoba, scroll painting depicting Yūki Ujitomo's rebellion against the Ashikaga shogunate
References
- Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Yūki," Nobiliare du Japon, pp. 71–72; retrieved 2013-5-6.
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Yūki" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 1066.
- Nussbaum, "Yūki-shi Hatto" at p. 1067.
- Papinot, (2003). "Yūki shi-ten", Nobiliare du Japon, p. 72; retrieved 2013-5-6.