Konoe family explained

Surname:Konoe
Surname Nihongo:近衛
Parent House:Fujiwara clan (Hokke)
Titles:Various
Founder:Konoe Motozane
Founding Year:12th century
Dissolution:still extant

is a Japanese aristocratic family.[1] The family is a branch of Hokke and, by extension, a main branch of the Fujiwara clan.[2]

History

The Konoe claim descent from Konoe Iezane (1179–1242).[1] The origin of the family name was the residence of Iezane's grandfather Konoe Motozane, which was located on a road in Kyoto named "Konoe-Ōji" (近衛大道).[3] Despite Konoe at first being the senior line of the Fujiwara clan, the clan was eventually split up into Five regent houses during the Kamakura period,[4] with each of the five families having the right to assume the regency.[1] During the following Nanboku-chō period, a succession dispute of Konoe emerged, between Tsunetada and his cousin Mototsugu – they served in rival courts, the Southern and the Northern Court respectively; later, when the Southern court lost its political influence in 1392, records of Tsunetada's descendants became lost and have stayed lost ever since.[5]

There were at least five Imperial Consorts who came from the Konoe family,[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] including Konoe Sakiko, who was adopted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1586. The most recent consort from the Konoe was (近衛維子, 1760–1783), who married the 118th Emperor of Japan, Emperor Go-Momozono; they had one daughter Princess Yoshiko.

In the early 17th century the Konoe family was imperiled, for Konoe Nobutada was the last of his line and had no male heir. He decided to adopt one of his nephews, who was also the fourth son of Emperor Go-Yozei. The child was renamed Konoe Nobuhiro (1599–1649), who later married Nobutada's daughter.[11] [12] From there the Konoe lineage was renewed and continued until 1956, when the eldest son of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe,[13] Fumitaka, died in the Soviet Union[14] without a legitimate male heir. Fumitaka's wife subsequently adopted his nephew Tadateru Konoe, second son of Fumitaka's sister, as their heir.[15] Tadateru's patrilineal descent, through his biological father Morisada Hosokawa,[16] comes from the Hosokawa clan, a cadet branch of Seiwa Genji and descended from Emperor Seiwa;[17] he also has an elder brother Morihiro Hosokawa, the Prime Minister of Japan from 1993 to 1994. Tadateru married, in 1966, a granddaughter of Emperor Taishō, Yasuko (formerly Princess Yasuko of Mikasa).[18]

Family Tree

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Tokiwai family

The was founded by a son of Konoe Tadahiro, Gyōki (尭熈), who was the lead Buddhist monk of Senju-ji, and he took the family name "Tokiwai" since 1872.

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Miyagawa family

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See also

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Notes and References

  1. [Edmund Papinot|Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph]
  2. [Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]
  3. Book: Ōta . Akira . 姓氏家系大辞典 第2巻 . 1934 . 978-4040302201 . 2350–2353.
  4. Book: Amimoto . Mitsuyoshi . カラー版 イチから知りたい! 家紋と名字 . 2014-07-01 . SEITOSHA . 978-4791623075 . 12–13.
  5. Book: Mori . Shigeaki . 闇の歴史、後南朝 後醍醐流の抵抗と終焉 . 2013-06-21 . 角川学芸出版 . 978-4044092085 . 104–106.
  6. Book: Titsingh . Isaac . Nipon o daï itsi ran . 1834 . . 240 . nipon o dai itsi ran.. Isaac Titsingh .
  7. Book: 史料綜覽: 鎌倉時代1–2 . 1966 . 東京大學出版會 .
  8. Book: Lillehoj, Elizabeth.. Art and palace politics in early modern Japan, 1580s–1680s. 2011. Brill. 9789004211261. Leiden. 833766152.
  9. Book: Imatani . Akira . Takano . Toshihiko . 中近世の宗教と国家 . 1998 . 岩田書院 . 978-4872941203.
  10. Book: Yawata . Kazuo . 歴代天皇列伝 日本人なら知っておきたい国家の歴史 . 2008-05-24 . PHP研究所 . 978-4569698533.
  11. Book: 続々日本絵卷大成 . 中央公論社 . 187.
  12. Book: 江村 . 知子 . 土佐光吉と近世やまと絵の系譜 . 2011-07-12 . 至文堂 . 978-4324089637 . 48.
  13. Nussbaum, "Konoe Fumimaro" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 558-559.
  14. Book: Igarashi . Yoshikuni . Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers . 2016-08-16 . Columbia University Press . 978-0231177702 . 109.
  15. Book: 仲 . 衛 . 細川護煕の決断―歴史を変える男 . 1993-12-01 . 東経 . 978-4492210567 . 21.
  16. Book: 近藤 . 安太郎 . 系図研究の基礎知識―家系に見る日本の歴史 . 1989 . 近藤出版社 . 978-4772502658 . 2423.
  17. Book: 寛政重脩諸家譜: 索引 . 1918 . 栄進舎出版部 . 1048 .
  18. Web site: ご結婚により，皇族の身分を離れられた内親王及び女王 . . 6 October 2019.
  19. Web site: 近衛（近衞）家（摂家） . 1 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120926163624/https://reichsarchiv.jp/%E5%AE%B6%E7%B3%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88/%E8%BF%91%E8%A1%9B%EF%BC%88%E8%BF%91%E8%A1%9E%EF%BC%89%E5%AE%B6%EF%BC%88%E6%91%82%E5%AE%B6%EF%BC%89 . 26 September 2012 . bot: unknown .
  20. Book: Lee . Butler . Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467–1680 . 2002-07-31 . Harvard University Asia Center . 978-0674008519 . 412.
  21. Web site: 常磐井家（真宗高田派専修寺） . 6 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170707003730/https://reichsarchiv.jp/%E5%AE%B6%E7%B3%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88/%E5%B8%B8%E7%A3%90%E4%BA%95%E5%AE%B6%EF%BC%88%E7%9C%9F%E5%AE%97%E9%AB%98%E7%94%B0%E6%B4%BE%E5%B0%82%E4%BF%AE%E5%AF%BA%EF%BC%89 . 7 July 2017 . bot: unknown .
  22. Web site: 第31期会長・副会長・理事長・事務総長ご紹介 . 全日本仏教会 . 7 October 2019.
  23. Web site: 水谷川家 . 6 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171109185301/https://reichsarchiv.jp/%E5%AE%B6%E7%B3%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88/%E6%B0%B4%E8%B0%B7%E5%B7%9D%E5%AE%B6 . 9 November 2017 . bot: unknown .
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  25. Web site: 近衛秀健氏死去 宮内庁式部職楽部指揮者 . 7 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140529145840/https://www.47news.jp/CN/200304/CN2003040201000312.html . 29 May 2014 . bot: unknown .

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