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| [[Image:Hongo_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The Hongo kamon.]] | | [[Image:Hongo_mon.jpg|left|thumb|The Hongo kamon.]] |
| + | *''Other Names'': 都城島津家 ''(Miyakonojou Shimazu-ke)'' |
| + | *''Japanese'': [[北郷]]家 ''(Hongou-ke)'' |
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− | Members: [[Hongo Tokihisa]] and [[Hongo Tadatora]]
| + | The Hongô clan was a branch family of the [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma han]], descended from the sixth son of [[Shimazu Tadamune]]. |
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| + | Over 120 retainers of the Hongô family participated in the [[1609]] [[invasion of Ryukyu|invasion of Ryûkyû]], led by ''[[jito|jitô]]'' [[Hongo Hisatake|Hongô Shirôemon Hisatake]]. Members of the Miyakonojô Shimazu later accompanied the [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]] on its return journey to Kagoshima, on at least one occasion (in [[1710]]). The clan also handled cases of Satsuma ships which became shipwrecked along the eastern branch<!--東目筋--> of the [[Satsuma kaido|Satsuma kaidô]] (Satsuma Highway). |
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| + | During the Edo period, the Miyakonojô Shimazu maintained a mansion in [[Kagoshima]] covering an area of roughly 5000 ''[[Japanese Measurements|tsubo]]''. The [[Ryukyu-kan|Ryûkyû-kan]], a consulate-like institution where [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] officials and scholars lived and operated, adjoined the mansion directly to the west; beyond that lay the mansion of the [[Tanegashima clan]]. Within the mansion's grounds, the residence of the family head lay towards the west, while a ''nagaya'' (lit. "longhouse") housing Hongô retainers lay in the eastern portion of the grounds, near Kagoshima Bay. |
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| + | ==Prominent Members== |
| + | *[[Hongo Hisamori|Hongô Hisamori]] |
| + | *[[Hongo Hisatake|Hongô Hisatake]] |
| + | *[[Hongo Tadaoki|Hongô Tadaoki]] (aka Hisatatsu, family head c. 1710) |
| + | *[[Hongo Tadatora|Hongô Tadatora]] |
| + | *[[Hongo Tadayoshi|Hongô Tadayoshi]] (family head c. 1609) |
| + | *[[Hongo Tokihisa|Hongô Tokihisa]] |
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| + | ==References== |
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| + | *''Miyakonojô to Ryûkyû ôkoku'' 都城と琉球王国, Miyakonojô Shimazu Residence (2012), 24-27, 30. |
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| [[Category:Clans]] | | [[Category:Clans]] |