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*''Japanese'': 近衛家 ''(Konoe-ke)''
The Konoe family was one of the ''[[gosekke]]'', the five top ''[[kuge]]'' (court aristocrat) families. Many ''[[sessho|sesshô]]'', ''[[kanpaku]]'' and ''[[dajo daijin|dajô daijin]]'' across the centuries were members of this family.
The family takes its name from the position of Imperial Guard (''Konoe'').
A wealthy and influential family, the Konoe provided protection and various forms of assistance to a variety of parties on occasion, and intermarried with Imperial, shogunal, and daimyô families. During the [[Muromachi period]], the [[za|guild]] of [[gold leaf]] producers in Kyoto enjoyed Konoe protection. [[Konoe Nobutada]] (1565-1614) was adopted into the Imperial family as heir, though he never took the throne; [[Konoe Motohiro]] (1648-1722), head of the family during his lifetime, married an Imperial princess, [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]], and his daughter [[Konoe Hiroko]] married Shogun [[Tokugawa Ienobu]]. In [[1661]], it was the Konoe who granted the monk [[Ingen]] land on which to establish [[Manpuku-ji]], thus introducing [[Obaku|Ôbaku]] [[Zen]] to Japan.<ref>Marius Jansen, ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 55-56.</ref>
A few centuries later, [[Konoe Tadahiro]] adopted [[Atsu-hime]], a daughter of the [[Shimazu clan]], and both Konoe and Shimazu benefited from the relationship between their families in their efforts to retain wealth and power through the chaos surrounding the [[Meiji Restoration]].
The Konoe family mansion burned down on [[1675]]/11/25, but five household managers braved the flames to secure a number of family treasures and archival documents; in part due to their efforts, roughly 200,000 documents survive today in the family archive.<ref>Segawa Seigle, 10-11.</ref>
==Selected Members of the Konoe family==
*[[Konoe Motozane]] (d. 1166)
*[[Konoe Motomichi]]
*[[Konoe Taneie]]
*[[Konoe Sakihisa]] (1536-1612)
*[[Konoe Takataka]]
*[[Konoe Nobutada]] (1565-1614)
*[[Konoe Nobuhiro]] (1593-1643)
*[[Konoe Motohiro]] (1648-1722)
*[[Konoe Hisatsugu]]
*[[Konoe Hiroko]] (b. 1666)
*[[Konoe Iehiro]] (1667-1736)
*[[Konoe Nobuna]] (b. 1669)
*[[Konoe Iehisa]]
*Konoe Tadako ([[Kodai-in (1773-1844)|Kôdai-in]])
*[[Konoe Tadahiro]]
*[[Konoe Tadafusa]]
*[[Konoe Fumimaro]] (1891-1945)
==References==
*Cecilia Segawa Seigle, "Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady," in Anne Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 3-24.
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The Konoe family was one of the ''[[gosekke]]'', the five top ''[[kuge]]'' (court aristocrat) families. Many ''[[sessho|sesshô]]'', ''[[kanpaku]]'' and ''[[dajo daijin|dajô daijin]]'' across the centuries were members of this family.
The family takes its name from the position of Imperial Guard (''Konoe'').
A wealthy and influential family, the Konoe provided protection and various forms of assistance to a variety of parties on occasion, and intermarried with Imperial, shogunal, and daimyô families. During the [[Muromachi period]], the [[za|guild]] of [[gold leaf]] producers in Kyoto enjoyed Konoe protection. [[Konoe Nobutada]] (1565-1614) was adopted into the Imperial family as heir, though he never took the throne; [[Konoe Motohiro]] (1648-1722), head of the family during his lifetime, married an Imperial princess, [[Shinanomiya Tsuneko]], and his daughter [[Konoe Hiroko]] married Shogun [[Tokugawa Ienobu]]. In [[1661]], it was the Konoe who granted the monk [[Ingen]] land on which to establish [[Manpuku-ji]], thus introducing [[Obaku|Ôbaku]] [[Zen]] to Japan.<ref>Marius Jansen, ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 55-56.</ref>
A few centuries later, [[Konoe Tadahiro]] adopted [[Atsu-hime]], a daughter of the [[Shimazu clan]], and both Konoe and Shimazu benefited from the relationship between their families in their efforts to retain wealth and power through the chaos surrounding the [[Meiji Restoration]].
The Konoe family mansion burned down on [[1675]]/11/25, but five household managers braved the flames to secure a number of family treasures and archival documents; in part due to their efforts, roughly 200,000 documents survive today in the family archive.<ref>Segawa Seigle, 10-11.</ref>
==Selected Members of the Konoe family==
*[[Konoe Motozane]] (d. 1166)
*[[Konoe Motomichi]]
*[[Konoe Taneie]]
*[[Konoe Sakihisa]] (1536-1612)
*[[Konoe Takataka]]
*[[Konoe Nobutada]] (1565-1614)
*[[Konoe Nobuhiro]] (1593-1643)
*[[Konoe Motohiro]] (1648-1722)
*[[Konoe Hisatsugu]]
*[[Konoe Hiroko]] (b. 1666)
*[[Konoe Iehiro]] (1667-1736)
*[[Konoe Nobuna]] (b. 1669)
*[[Konoe Iehisa]]
*Konoe Tadako ([[Kodai-in (1773-1844)|Kôdai-in]])
*[[Konoe Tadahiro]]
*[[Konoe Tadafusa]]
*[[Konoe Fumimaro]] (1891-1945)
==References==
*Cecilia Segawa Seigle, "Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court Lady," in Anne Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan'', Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 3-24.
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[[Category:Clans]]