Yūki clan explained

Surname:	Yūki
Surname Nihongo:	結城
Image Size:	150px
Home Province:	Shimōsa Mutsu
Parent House:	Ashikaga clan (Fujiwara)
Founder:	Yūki Tomomitsu
Cadet Branches:	Yūki Shimōsa Yūki Shirakawa

is a Japanese samurai kin group.^[1]

History

The Yūki claim descent from Fujiwara no Hidesato.^[2]

The clan is composed of two branches: the Shimōsa Yūki and the Shirakawa Yūki.^[2] The split happened during the Nanboku-chō period. One branch supported the Southern Imperial Court, and the other branch the Northern Pretenders.

Like many samurai clans, the Yūki developed a code of provincial laws (bunkoku-hō). In 1556, Yūki Masakatsu published .^[3]

The Shirakawa branch was destroyed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi;^[2] but the Shimōsa branch survived as daimyōs of Yūki Domain in Shimōsa Province.

The Shimōsa Yūki became part of the Tokugawa clan.^[2]

The main samurai vassals of the Yūki (Yūki shi-ten) included the Tagaya clan, the Mizutani clan, the Yamakawa clan and the Iwakami clan.^[4]

Select list

• Yūki Tomomitsu, 1168-1254, 1st head of Yūki Domain^[2]
• Yūki Tomohiro, son of Tomomitsu^[2]
• Yūki Hirotsugu, son of Tomohiro^[1]
• Yūki Sukehiro, son of Tomohiro at Shirakawa in Mutsu, 1298^[1]
• Yūki Munehiro, d. c. 1340^[2]
• Yūki Chikatomo, d. 1347^[2]
• Yūki Chikamitsu, d. 1336^[2]
• Yūki Akitomo, d. c. 1370, son of Chikatomo^[1]
• Yūki Ujitomo, 1398-1441^[2]
• Yūki Noritomo, 1439-1462^[2]
• Yūki Masatomo, 1477-1545^[2]
• Yūki Masakatsu, 1504-1559^[2]
• Yūki Harutomo, 1534-1616, adopted son of Oyama Taketomo^[1]
• Yūki Hideyasu,^[1] adopted son of Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Yūki Naomoto^[1]

See also

• Yūki Kassen Ekotoba, scroll painting depicting Yūki Ujitomo's rebellion against the Ashikaga shogunate

Notes and References

1. [Edmund Papinot|Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph]
2. [Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]
3. Nussbaum, "Yūki-shi Hatto" at p. 1067.
4. Papinot, (2003). "Yūki shi-ten", Nobiliare du Japon, p. 72; retrieved 2013-5-6.