Naraya Ichiemon - Naraya Ichiemon

Japanese: 奈良屋市右衛門 - ならや・いちえもん

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. The founder of the Edo town elders in the early Edo period. According to the history book, his ancestors were members of the Odate clan and lived in Nara in Yamato, but served Tokugawa Ieyasu when he lived in Mikawa. According to other historical sources, when Ieyasu visited Sakai during the Honnoji Incident in 1582, he crossed Iga and returned to Okazaki Castle, where Ogasawara Kotaro and others guarded the castle, and Ichiuemon is said to be their descendant. After Ieyasu entered the Kanto region in 1590, he was given a residence in Nihonbashi Honcho 1-chome, and as the head of three town elders, he was in charge of governing the town of Edo. For the next 12 generations, he was called Ichiuemon, but in 1834, he was allowed to use the surname Tate. <References> Yoshihara Kenichiro, "Machi-doshiyori" (Research on Edo Townspeople, Volume 4)

(Kenichiro Yoshihara)

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生年：生没年不詳
江戸初期の江戸町年寄の祖。由緒書によれば,先祖は大館氏の一族で大和の奈良に居住していたが,徳川家康の三河在住の時代に仕えたという。他の史料によれば,天正10(1582)年の本能寺の変に当たり,堺見物をしていた家康が伊賀を越え岡崎に帰城したとき,小笠原小太郎らが守護したが,市右衛門はその子孫であるという。家康の関東入国(1590)後は日本橋本町1丁目に屋敷地を与えられ,3人の町年寄の筆頭として江戸の町支配を担当した。以後12代にわたり市右衛門と称したが,天保5(1834)年に館の姓を名乗ることが許された。<参考文献>吉原健一郎「町年寄」(『江戸町人の研究』4巻)

(吉原健一郎)

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