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[[Image:Niwa_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The Niwa kamon.]]
[[Image:Niwa_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The Niwa kamon.]]
*''Japanese'': 丹羽家 ''(Niwa ke)''
The Niwa of [[Owari province]] were descended from the [[Kodama clan|Kodama family]]. They came to serve the [[Oda clan|Oda]] and during the time of [[Oda Nobunaga|Nobunaga]] rose to some prominence. They lost a good deal of their influence after the death of Nobunaga but survived into the Edo Period as daimyô.
The Niwa of [[Owari province]] were descended from the [[Kodama clan|Kodama family]]. They came to serve the [[Oda clan]] and during the time of [[Oda Nobunaga|Nobunaga]] rose to some prominence. They lost a good deal of their influence after the death of Nobunaga but survived into the [[Edo Period]] as ''[[kunimochi|jun-kunimochi]] daimyô'', and were granted a special role by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in watching over the northern provinces.
[[Niwa Nagashige]] ([[1571]]-[[1637]]) was the first Edo period head of the clan. He was initially granted a 10,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain at [[Futto han|Futto]] in [[Hitachi province]], but was soon moved to [[Tanakura han]], and then in [[1627]] to [[Shirakawa han]] in [[Mutsu province]]. There, he was given a special role and obligation in watching over the other ''daimyô'' of the region. When the [[Uesugi clan|Uesugi]], [[Date clan|Date]], or [[Satake clan]] lord traveled to [[Edo]] in fulfillment of his ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' obligations, he was obliged to pass through Shirakawa, thus providing an opportunity for the Niwa to observe the size and strength of their party, and to report back to Edo anything suspicious. Further, when one of these [[Tohoku|Tôhoku]] ''daimyô'' was unable to depart on time (or at all) for Edo, he was obligated to report not only to the ''[[roju|rôjû]]'' (shogunate elders) in Edo, but also to the Niwa.
Nagashige's son [[Niwa Mitsushige]] was moved to the 100,000 ''koku'' domain of [[Nihonmatsu han|Nihonmatsu]] in [[1643]], and retained this special role.<ref>Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 281n42.</ref>
==Selected Members of the Niwa clan==
*[[Niwa Nagahide]] ([[1535]]-[[1585]])
*[[Niwa Nagashige]] (1571-1637)
*[[Niwa Mitsushige]]
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*[[Niwa Nagakuni]] (last Edo period family head)
==References==
*Yamamoto Hirofumi, ''Sankin kôtai'', Kodansha gendai shinsho (1998), 192.
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