The Sakakibara family (榊原氏, Sakakibara-shi) was a samurai (warrior nobility) family which held a number of feudal domains over the course of Japanese history. is the term for the military nobility of Pre-industrial Japan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.
The family was descended from Nikka Sadanaga of the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan. The were the most successful and powerful of the many branch families of the Japanese Minamoto clan was one of the honorary surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan of the Heian Period ( 794 – 1185 AD on those of their sons and grandsons who were not The first to take the name Sakakibara was Sadanaga's son, who resided in Sakakibara in Ise Province, and took the name Sakakibara Toshinaga. or Seishū (勢州 seishū) was a province of Japan including most of modern Mie Prefecture.
Sakakibara Yasumasa (1548-1606) was a vassal of Tokugawa Ieyasu who fought with him at the end of the Sengoku period, and whose sons would later fight for Tokugawa in the Siege of Osaka. ( 1548 - June 19, 1606) was a Japanese Daimyo of the late Sengoku period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa was the founder and first Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate The was a series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction He was granted the han (fief) of Tatebayashi in Kozuke Province. The, or domains, were the Fiefs of Feudal Lords of Japan that were created by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and existed until their is a city located in Gunma, Japan. As of 2007, the city has an estimated Population of 80629 and the density of 1322 was an old province located in the Tōsandō of Japan which today comprises Gunma prefecture.
Sakakibara daimyō (feudal lords) controlled a number of different domains over the centuries, including Himeji, and survived as a noble family into the 20th century. The ( were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings is a flatland-mountain Japanese castle complex located in Himeji in Hyōgo Prefecture and comprising 83 Wooden Buildings It is occasionally
One branch of the Sakakibara, located at Takada han in Echigo Province, was a local power center during the Echigo Theater of the Boshin War. was an old province in north-central Japan, on the Sea of Japan side northernmost part of the Hokurikudō (北陸道）circuit The was a Civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Following the war, Takada served as a detention center for defeated samurai of the Aizu domain. is an area comprising the westernmost third of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan.
In the Meiji era, the Sakakibara took the title of Viscount in the kazoku system of peerage. The was the hereditary Peerage of the Empire of Japan that existed between 1869 and 1947
References
- Papinot, Edmond (1910). Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha.
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