Kuroda family

Japanese: 黒田氏 - くろだうじ

(1) The family is a branch of the Uda-Genji Sasaki clan, and has lived in Kuroda Village, Ika County, Omi Province for generations, and is said to have called itself the Kuroda clan. At the end of the Muromachi period, during the time of Takamasa, they incurred the wrath of Ashikaga Shogun Yoshitane and moved to Fukuoka, Oku County, Bizen Province, and then during the time of Shigetaka, they moved to Harima Province. During the time of Shigetaka's son, Mototaka, they served the Akamatsu clan's Kodera Masamoto for the first time, became his son-in-law (the son-in-law of his adopted daughter), and were given the custody of Himeji Castle, and called themselves the Kodera clan. Mototaka's son, Yoshitaka, served Oda Nobunaga, and in 1587, he was given the fief of 120,000 koku in Nakatsu, Buzen Province. During the Battle of Sekigahara, both Takamasa and Nagamasa belonged to the Tokugawa clan on the eastern side, and Nagamasa was given 523,000 koku as the lord of Fukuoka Castle in Chikuzen Province. Later, in the Meiji period, he was awarded the title of marquis. Nagamasa's second son, Nagaoki, was awarded 50,000 koku in Akizuki, Chikuzen in 1623, and his third son, Takamasa, was awarded 40,000 koku in Torenji, Chikuzen, and their descendants were awarded the titles of viscount and baron in the Meiji period. (2) He is said to have descended from Kaji Suenaka, the head of the Tan clan, one of the seven clans of Musashi. Suenaka's son, Iekatsu, lived in Nakayama, Komyo County, Musashi Province, and initially claimed the Nakayama clan. Iekatsu's son, Ienori, served the Later Hojo clan, and after the fall of the Later Hojo clan, during the reign of Terumori, he served Tokugawa Ieyasu and became a hatamoto (samurai retainer) of the Edo Shogunate. In the 16th year of Genroku (1703), during the reign of Naokuni, he was awarded 15,000 koku in Shimodate, Hitachi, and in the 17th year of Kyoho (1732), he was transferred to 25,000 koku in Numata, Kozuke. Naokuni became the son-in-law of Kuroda Naoaki and took the name Kuroda. In the second year of the Kanpo era (42), during the reign of Naozumi, the fief was transferred to Kururi in Kazusa Province, and his descendants were made viscounts in the Meiji period.

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Japanese:

(1) 宇多源氏佐々木氏の庶流で，代々近江国伊香郡黒田村に住し，黒田氏を称したという。室町時代末期，高政のとき，足利将軍義稙の怒りにふれ，備前国邑久 (おおく) 郡福岡に移住，さらに重隆のとき播磨国に移り，重隆の子職隆のとき初めて赤松氏の一族小寺政職に仕え，その女婿 (養女の婿) となって姫路城を預り，小寺氏を称した。職隆の子孝高 (よしたか) は，織田信長に属し，天正 15 (1587) 年，豊前中津 12万石を領した。関ヶ原の戦いには，孝高，長政父子ともに東軍徳川家に属し，長政は筑前福岡城主として 52万 3000石に封じられた。以降，明治にいたり侯爵に叙せられた。なお，長政の次男長興は元和9 (1623) 年筑前秋月5万石に，3男高政は筑前東蓮寺4万石に分知され，子孫は明治にいたり，それぞれ子爵，男爵に列せられた。 (2) 武蔵七党の一つ，丹党の族頭加治季仲から出たという。季仲の子家勝は武蔵国高麗郡中山に住し，初め中山氏を称したが，家勝の子家範が後北条氏に仕え，後北条氏滅亡後，照守のとき，徳川家康に仕えて江戸幕府の旗本となり，元禄 16 (1703) 年直邦のとき，常陸下館1万 5000石に封じられ，享保 17 (32) 年，上野沼田2万 5000石に移封された。直邦が黒田直相の女婿となり，黒田氏を称した。寛保2 (42) 年直純のとき，上総久留里に移封，子孫は明治にいたり子爵に列せられた。

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