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Sagara clan

Samurai clan

Field	Value
surname nihongo	相良氏
image	Japanese crest Sagara Umebachi.svg
caption	Mon: Sagara Umebachi
home province	Higo
Totomi
titles	* Lord of Hitoyoshi
parent house	Fujiwara
ruled until	1872	cadet branches=Imamura clan	founder=Sagara Korekane

Totomi

Viscount

The Sagara clan (相良氏, Sagara-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan of daimyos. They were a tactical ally of the Shimazu clan.

In the Edo period, they became the daimyo of the Hitoyoshi Domain and ruled until the Meiji Restoration. After the restoration, they were appointed Viscount.

Origins

The Sagara clan was founded by Sagara Korekane, descending from the Fujiwara clan. It is believed that the clan took its name from the manor (shōen) they held in Sagara, Haibara District, Tōtōmi Province during the Kamakura period.

History

The Sagara clan was, in the Edo period, a tozama daimyō clan which ruled the Hitoyoshi Domain in Higo Province. The domain boasted land worth of 22,000 koku. In 1198, the year before his death, Minamoto no Yoritomo granted the territory of Hitoyoshi (on Kyushu, in modern-day Kumamoto prefecture) to the Sagara clan. Hitoyoshi is surrounded on all sides by mountains, making it quite easily defensible, and allowing the Sagara to relatively easily survive their neighbors' attacks during the Sengoku period.

Sagara Nagatsune initially fought alongside the Western Army (against Tokugawa Ieyasu) at the Battle of Sekigahara, but secretly sent an envoy to Ieyasu declaring his allegiance. When Ieyasu's forces laid siege to Nagatsune's Ôgaki castle, he granted the attackers entry, thus earning him some relief from Tokugawa enmity. After contributing as well to Tokugawa efforts during the Siege of Osaka, he earned a high reputation for his clan.

After the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system, members of the Sagara clan were appointed hereditary nobility Kazoku with the title of Viscount.

Clan heads

Sagara Yorifusa
Sagara Yorihiro
Sagara Yoritaka
Sagara Yoritomi
Sagara Nagaoki
Sagara Nagaari
Sagara Yorimine
Sagara Yorihisa
Sagara Akinaga
Sagara Yorisada
Sagara Tomimochi
Sagara Nagahiro
Sagara Yorinori
Sagara Yoriyuki
Sagara Nagatomi
Sagara Yorimoto
Sagara Haruhiro
Sagara Yoshihi

Vassal

Indō Yoriyasu
Akaike Nagatō
Marume Nagayoshi
Fukami Nagamoto

References

Tashiro, Masakama. (1917). "Kuma Gaishi". Kuma Gaishi Hakkoujo.
Hotta, Masaatsu. (1923). "寛政重脩諸家譜第5輯". 國民圖書.
[[Edmond Papinot. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph]]. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003). [http://www.unterstein.net/Toyoashihara-no-Chiaki-Nagaioaki-no-Mitsuho-no-Kuni/NobiliaireJapon.pdf "Hosokawa" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 50]; retrieved 2013-5-28.
Gibney, Frank. (1998). "Britannica International Encyclopaedia". TBS Britannica.

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