The is a Japanese aristocratic kin group. The Takatsukasa was a branch of the Fujiwara clan and one of the Five regent houses, from which Sesshō and Kampaku could be chosen.
History
The Takatsukasa family was founded by Fujiwara no Kanehira (1228–1294), who was the sixth son of Konoe Iezane; he was also the first to take this family name, the third son of Nijō Haruyoshi took the name Takatsukasa Nobufusa and revived the household.
Second Creation (1579-present)
Takatsukasa-Matsudaira (Yoshii) family
The was a cadet branch of both Takatsukasa and the Kishū-Tokugawa family, founded by , the youngest son of Takatsukasa Nobufusa. Because of his sister's marriage to the shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu since 1623, Nobuhira moved to Edo in 1650; Iemitsu welcomed his brother-in-law and granted him the rank hatamoto. Arranged by Iemitsu's successor Tokugawa Ietsuna, in 1653, Nobuhira married Matsuhime, the second daughter of Tokugawa Yorinobu; as a close relative of the Tokugawa clan, Nobuhira was later allowed to adopt the family name Matsudaira by the next year. During the era of Meiji, the family name was changed to Yoshii (吉井), named after the family's fief Yoshii Domain in Edo Period.
See also
- Japanese clans
- List of Kuge families
- Five Regent Houses
References
External links
- Takatsukasa kamon at Harimaya.com