Hachisuka clan


The Hachisuka clan are descendants of Emperor Seiwa and are a branch of the Ashikaga clan through the Shiba clan.
Ashikaga Ieuji, son of Ashikaga Yasuuji, was the first who adopted the name of Shiba. The Shiba were Shugo of Echizen, Owari and other provinces, and were during the Ashikaga shogunate one of three families from which the Kyoto-kanryo could be chosen.
Shiba Masaaki, the descendant of Shiba Takatsune, established himself in Hachisuka, near Kiso river at the border of Owari and Mino provinces, whence he took the name Hachisuka.
In the 16th century, the Hachisuka clan came to prominence thanks to its head, Hachisuka Koroku. His uncle held Hachisuka castle and he lived first in Miyaushiro castle which was his mother's family home. Koroku served the Oda clan, being instrumental in several of the early victories of Oda Nobunaga. He later went on to serve under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
His son, Iemasa, received Tokushima Domain as a new landholding from Hideyoshi. From then until the end of the Edo period, the Hachisuka were the lords of Tokushima. They would be one of the few clans to retain the same landholding from the start of the Edo period to its conclusion. They also managed to retain a constant income rating of 256,000 koku.
In the late Edo period, the clan came into national focus because of the contemporary head, Hachisuka Narihiro, who was a son of the 11th shogun, Ienari. The clan sided with the Kyoto government during the Boshin War and contributed troops to the fight in the north, as well as to security duties in Edo. The clan faced internal fragmentation a year later, in the form of the Inada Rebellion, and was peacefully dissolved in 1873 with the rest of the nation's han.
After the Meiji Restoration, the Hachisuka became part of the kazoku, Japan's new nobility system.

Ancestor

  1. Emperor Seiwa
  2. Prince Sadazumi
  3. Minamoto no Tsunemoto
  4. Minamoto no Mitsunaka
  5. Minamoto no Yorinobu
  6. Minamoto no Yoriyoshi
  7. Minamoto no Yoshiie
  8. Minamoto no Yoshikuni
  9. Minamoto no Yoshiyasu
  10. Ashikaga Yoshikane
  11. Ashikaga Yoshiuji
  12. Ashikaga Yasuuji
  13. Ashikaga Ieuji
  14. Shiba Muneie
  15. Shiba Muneuji
  16. Shiba Takatsune

    Head Family

  17. Hachisuka Kagenari
  18. Masataka
  19. Masanaga
  20. Masaaki
  21. Masamori
  22. Masatoshi
  23. Hachisuka Masakatsu
  24. Hachisuka Iemasa
  25. Hachisuka Yoshishige
  26. Hachisuka Tadateru
  27. Hachisuka Mitsutaka
  28. Hachisuka Tsunamichi
  29. Hachisuka Tsunanori
  30. Hachisuka Munekazu
  31. Hachisuka Muneteru
  32. Hachisuka Muneshige
  33. Hachisuka Yoshihiro
  34. Hachisuka Shigeyoshi
  35. Hachisuka Haruaki
  36. Hachisuka Narimasa
  37. Hachisuka Narihiro
  38. Hachisuka Mochiaki
  39. Masaaki
  40. Masauji Hachisuka
  41. Masako Hachisuka