Attached elder retainer - Tsukegarou

Japanese: 付家老 - つけがろう
Attached elder retainer - Tsukegarou

During the Edo period, the shogunate sent elder retainers to their related domains and the main domains to their branch domains to supervise and guide their administration. The most representative were the elder retainers of the Gosanke (three branches of the clan), including the Naruse clan (Owari Inuyama, 35,000 koku) and Takekoshi clan (Mino Imao, 30,000 koku) attached to the Owari clan, the Ando clan (Kii Tanabe, over 38,800 koku), the Mizuno clan (Kii Shingu, over 35,000 koku), and the Nakayama clan (Hitachi Matsuoka, 25,000 koku) attached to the Mito clan. They governed the clans for generations and were given special treatment. In the late early modern period, a book of military affairs entitled "Gosankekata Otsuke" was published. The shogunate also appointed elder retainers to the Gosankyo (Tayasu, Hitotsubashi, and Shimizu), but these were not hereditary retainers to the Gosankyo, but were temporary secondments of shogunate vassals.

[Mieko Matsuo]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

江戸時代、幕府が親藩に対し、また本藩が支藩に対し、施政を監督・指導するため遣わした家老。代表的なのは御三家(ごさんけ)の付家老で、尾張(おわり)家に付けられた成瀬(なるせ)氏(尾張犬山、3万5000石)、竹腰(たけのこし)氏(美濃(みの)今尾、3万石)、紀州家に付けられた安藤氏(紀伊田辺、3万8800石余)、水野氏(紀伊新宮(しんぐう)、3万5000石余)、水戸(みと)家に付けられた中山氏(常陸(ひたち)松岡、2万5000石)の5氏がある。代々の藩政を統轄し、格別な礼遇を与えられていた。近世後期には「御三家方御付」と題する武鑑が刊行されている。御三卿(ごさんきょう)(田安(たやす)、一橋(ひとつばし)、清水(しみず))の家老も幕府から付けられたが、これは御三家の世襲された付家老とは異なり、幕臣の一時的出向であった。

[松尾美恵子]

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