The Akizuki clan ( 秋月氏 , Akizuki-shi ) was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled Takanabe Domain of what is now part of Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate . In the Meiji period , the former daimyō became part of the kazoku peerage, with Tsugaru Tsuguakira receiving the title of shishaku (Viscount).
31-428: The Japanese name Akizuki may refer to: Akizuki clan , a Japanese noble family Akizuki (surname) Akizuki rebellion , in 1876 Akizuki -class destroyer , several classes of Japanese warships Japanese destroyer Akizuki , several Japanese ships Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
62-469: A memorial Shinto shrine ( misasagi ) at Nara. The Imperial Household Agency designates this location as Go-Daigo's mausoleum . It is formally named Tō-no-o no misasagi . Go-Daigo had some other princesses from some court ladies. Kugyō (公卿) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre- Meiji eras. Even during those years in which
93-568: A betrayal by his close associate Yoshida Sadafusa. He quickly hid the Sacred Treasures in a secluded castle in Kasagiyama (the modern town of Kasagi , Sōraku District , Kyōto Prefecture ) and raised an army, but the castle fell to the shogunate 's army the following year, and they enthroned Emperor Kōgon , exiling Daigo to Oki Province (the Oki Islands in modern-day Shimane Prefecture ),
124-537: A prisoner of war. He was eventually pardoned in 1190 and allowed to return in 1202 as a retainer of the Kamakura shogunate to Chikuzen. During this situation, his son, Tanekatsu escaped from it and later he received the estate of "Akizuki", in what is now Asakura, Fukuoka . He changed his name to Akizuki Tanekatsu and is regarded as the founder of the clan. During the start of the Nanboku-chō period wars, Ashikaga Takauji
155-678: A reward. The cadet branch of the clan who settled in Chikuzen adopted the surname "Harada". As with many minor clans in the late Heian period, the Harada found it politically expedient to identify themselves as members of the Heike clan , whom they supported in the Hōgen rebellion and Heiji rebellion . They also helped shelter the infant Emperor Antoku and other members of the Heike clan when they were driven from Kyoto by
186-796: Is a cadet branch of the Ōkura clan , who claimed to be a toraijin clan descended from Prince Kōki, son of Achi no omi , the great-grandson of Emperor Ling of the Later Han Dynasty who had settled in Japan in the Kofun period during the reign of Emperor Ōjin . During the Heian period , the Ōkura clan played an important role in the suppression of the Fujiwara no Sumitomo rebellion in Iyo Province and were given estates in Harada, Mikasa District, Chikuzen Province as
217-498: The Bakumatsu period , Akizuki Tanetatsu the son of the final daimyō of Takanabe, was appointed as a wakadoshiyori by the shogunate in 1867. This was a highly usual promotion, due to his young age and status as heir to a tozama daimyō house, but Akizuki Tanetatsu was known for his education. However, by this time it was clear to him that the shogunate was doomed, and did not respond to orders or service, citing illness. In response,
248-544: The Diet of Japan . His son, Akizuki Tanehide inherited the title of viscount, and served as a member of the House of Peers from 1914 to its abolition in 1947. The movie director Akira Kurosawa directed a movie about the Akizuki clan, called The Hidden Fortress (隠し砦の三悪人 Kakushi-toride-no-san-akunin ), in 1958. In the film, the clan crest is depicted as a crescent . The Hidden Fortress
279-745: The Mōri clan . Following the defeat of the Mōri in northern Kyushu at the hands of the Ōtomo, the Akizuki turned to the Shimazu clan for assistance. Under Fumitane's second son, Akizuki Tanemi, the clan reached its peak, briefly controlling six districts in Chikuzen, four districts in Chikugo , and one district in Buzen , with an estimated kokudaka of 360,000 koku . However, this brief period of prominence came to an end with Toyotomi Hideyoshi 's Kyūshū campaign of 1586–1587. Although
310-689: The Northern Dynasty in Kyoto and the Southern Dynasty in Yoshino faced off against each other. Emperor Go-Daigo ordered Imperial Prince Kaneyoshi to Kyūshū and Nitta Yoshisada and Imperial Prince Tsuneyoshi to Hokuriku , and so forth, dispatching his sons all over, so that they could oppose the Northern Court. The actual site of Go-Daigo's grave is settled. This emperor is traditionally venerated at
341-615: The Satsuma Rebellion began in 1877, he worked hard to prevent former Takanabe samurai from joining Saigō Takamori ; however, his younger brother Akizuki Taneji joined the rebellion and was killed at the Battle of Shiroyama in Kagoshima . In 1884, Akizuki Tanetatsu was elevated to the kazoku peerage with the title of shishaku ( viscount ). In 1894, he became a member of the House of Peers in
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#1732855165736372-747: The imperial regalia to the Ashikaga side. Takauji enthroned the Jimyōin-tō emperor, Kōmyō , and officially began his shogunate with the enactment of the Kenmu Law Code. Go-Daigo escaped from the capital in January 1337, the regalia that he had handed over to the Ashikaga being counterfeit, and set up the Southern Court among the mountains of Yoshino , beginning the Period of Northern and Southern Courts in which
403-616: The Akizuki surrendered without resistance to the Toyotomi's forces, due to their status as retainers of the Shimazu clan, the Akizuki territories were seized and the clan was relocated to a much smaller fief in Takanbe , Hyūga Province . The Akizuki clan under Akizuki Tanenaga participated in Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea from1592-1598 under the command of Kuroda Nagamasa . After Hideyoshi's death, he
434-467: The Ashikaga army. Takauji fled to Kyūshū , but the following year, after reassembling his army, he again approached Kyōto. Kusunoki Masashige proposed a reconciliation with Takauji to the emperor, but Go-Daigo rejected this. He ordered Masashige and Yoshisada to destroy Takauji. Kusunoki's army was defeated at the Battle of Minatogawa . When Ashikaga's army entered Kyōto, Emperor Go-Daigo resisted, fleeing to Mount Hiei , but seeking reconciliation, he sent
465-602: The court's actual influence outside the palace walls was minimal, the hierarchic organization persisted. In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time. These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career. During Go-Daigo's reign, this apex of the Daijō-kan included: The years of Go-Daigo's reign are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō . Emperor Go-Daigo's eight era name changes are mirrored in number only in
496-483: The emperor and captured the Rokuhara Tandai . Immediately following this, Nitta Yoshisada , who had raised an army in the east, laid siege to Kamakura. When the city finally fell to Nitta, Hōjō Takatoki , the shogunal regent , fled to Tōshō temple , where he and his entire family committed suicide. This ended Hōjō power and paved the way for a new military regime . Upon his triumphal return to Kyoto, Daigo took
527-414: The forces of Kiso Yoshinaka . According to The Tale of the Heike , Harada Tanenao used his own residence as Emperor Antoku's temporary residence during this escape, this story is not confirmed due to various theories on fate of Emperor Antoku. However, after the defeat of the Heike at the Battle of Dannoura , Harada Tanenao was captured by the forces of Minamoto no Yoritomo and was sent to Kamakura as
558-596: The remainder of its history. The famed daimyō of Yonezawa Domain , Uesugi Yōzan (Harunori), was the 2nd son of the 6th daimyō of Takanabe, Akizuki Tanemitsu. Takanabe's domain school , Meirin-dō, was founded in 1778; it brought great acclaim to Takanabe as a center of education. The location of the Takanabe Domain's main Edo residence is now occupied by Azabu High School in the Azabu district of Minato , Tokyo, Japan . In
589-571: The same place to which Emperor Go-Toba had been exiled after the Jōkyū War of 1221. In 1333, Emperor Go-Daigo escaped from Oki with the help of Nawa Nagatoshi and his family, raising an army at Senjo Mountain in Hōki Province (the modern town of Kotoura in Tōhaku District , Tottori Prefecture ). Ashikaga Takauji , who had been sent by the shogunate to find and destroy this army, sided with
620-605: The samurai from the political order caused much complaining, and his political order began to fall apart. In 1335, Ashikaga Takauji , who had travelled to eastern Japan without obtaining an imperial edict in order to suppress the Nakasendai Rebellion, became disaffected. Daigo ordered Nitta Yoshisada to track down and destroy Ashikaga. Ashikaga defeated Nitta Yoshisada at the Battle of Takenoshita, Hakone. Kusunoki Masashige and Kitabatake Akiie , in communication with Kyoto, smashed
651-515: The shogunate even threatened to send a doctor, and with the assistance of Satsuma Domain, he escaped Edo on board a Satsuma ship. After the Meiji restoration he went to Kyoto and pledged fealty to the new Meiji government . After the abolition of the han system on 1871, Akizuki Tanetatsu relocated to Tokyo . In 1872, he went abroad to study. He served as a member of the Genrōin from 1875 to 1880. When
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#1732855165736682-444: The start of the 30,000 koku Takanabe Domain . The domain's early years were in turmoil over its tight finances, high debts, and the tyrannical policies of its karō ; however, by the mid-Edo period the domain had settled into somnolence. The domain's income reduced to 27,000 koku in 1689, when the 4th generation daimyō , Akizuki Tanemasa, granted 3000 koku to his younger brother; Takanabe's income remained at 27,000 koku for
713-564: The throne from Emperor Kōgon and began the Kenmu Restoration . The Restoration was ostensibly a revival of the older ways, but, in fact, the emperor had his eye set on an imperial dictatorship like that of the emperor of China . He wanted to imitate the Chinese in all their ways and become the most powerful ruler in the East. Impatient reforms, litigation over land rights, rewards, and the exclusion of
744-462: The title Akizuki . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Akizuki&oldid=1052536972 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Akizuki clan The Akizuki clan
775-615: Was assigned by Ishida Mitsunari to defend Ōgaki Castle in Mino Province against Tokugawa Ieyasu . However, on learning of the defeat of Ishida's Western Army at the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara , he immediately defected to the Eastern Army, killing all of the pro-Toyotomi commanders at the castle. Afterwards, with the assistance of Mizuno Katsushige , he was confirmed by the Tokugawa shogunate into his current territories at Takanabe, marking
806-547: Was defeated by the forces of Emperor Go-Daigo , and fled to Kyushu, where he attempted to raise a new army. He was attacked by Akizuki Tanemichi, who had remained loyal to the court; however, the Akizuki were defeated by Ashikaga forces at the Battle of Tatarahama . Later in the Nanboku-chō period, Akizuki clan was subordinate to the Ōuchi clan . After both Akizuki Fumitane and his son Harutane were killed in battle in 1557 against Ōtomo Sōrin , Akizuki Tanezane sought assistance from
837-496: Was led by Go-Daigo and his later successors. This 14th-century sovereign personally chose his posthumous name after the 9th-century Emperor Daigo and go- (後), translates as "later", and he is thus sometimes called the "Later Emperor Daigo", or, in some older sources, "Daigo, the second" or as "Daigo II". Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne , his personal name ( imina ) was Takaharu -shinnō (尊治親王). He
868-535: Was normally chosen after his death, but Emperor Go-Daigo chose his personally during his lifetime, to share it with Emperor Daigo. In 1324, with the discovery of Emperor Go-Daigo's plans to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate , the Rokuhara Tandai disposed of his close associate Hino Suketomo in the Shōchū Incident . In the Genkō Incident of 1331, Emperor Go-Daigo's plans were again discovered, this time by
899-467: Was remade in 2008 by director Shinji Higuchi . Emperor Go-Daigo Emperor Go-Daigo (後醍醐天皇 Go-Daigo-tennō ) (26 November 1288 – 19 September 1339) was the 96th emperor of Japan , according to the traditional order of succession . He successfully overthrew the Kamakura shogunate in 1333 and established the short-lived Kenmu Restoration to bring the Imperial House back into power. This
930-538: Was the second son of the Daikakuji-tō emperor, Emperor Go-Uda . His mother was Fujiwara no Chūshi /Tadako ( 藤原忠子 ), daughter of Fujiwara no Tadatsugu (Itsutsuji Tadatsugu) ( 藤原忠継/五辻忠継 ). She became Nyoin called Dantenmon-in (談天門院). His older brother was Emperor Go-Nijō . Emperor Go-Daigo's ideal was the Engi era (901–923) during the reign of Emperor Daigo , a period of direct imperial rule. An emperor's posthumous name
961-562: Was to be the last time the emperor had real power until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The Kenmu restoration was in turn overthrown by Ashikaga Takauji in 1336, ushering in the Ashikaga shogunate . The overthrow split the imperial family into two opposing factions between the Ashikaga backed Northern Court situated in Kyoto and the Southern Court based in Yoshino . The Southern Court