Mr. Minagawa

Japanese: 皆川氏 - みながわうじ

A medieval and early modern samurai family from Shimotsuke. The Koyama clan. It began when Munekazu, the grandson of Naganuma Munemasa, the second son of Koyama Masamitsu, lived in Minagawa Manor in Tsuga County, Shimotsuke Province, and called himself Minagawa Shirozaemon-no-jo. His descendants eventually lost the Minagawa domain, and in the Muromachi period, the line of Naganuma Muneyasu, Munekazu's younger brother, took up the Minagawa clan based in Minagawa Castle. His descendant, Toshimune's son Hiroteru, opposed the Utsunomiya, Satake, and Odawara Hojo clans, and in 1590 (Tensho 18), when Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Odawara, he holed himself up in Odawara Castle. However, he left the castle on April 8 and surrendered, so Hideyoshi granted him his original Minagawa domain of 13,000 koku and made it belong to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

下野出身の中･近世武家。小山氏一族。小山政光の次男長沼宗政の孫，宗員が下野国都賀郡皆川荘に住して，皆川四郎左衛門尉を称したのに始まる。その子孫はやがて皆川の地を失い，室町期には代わって，宗員の弟長沼宗泰の系統が皆川城に拠って皆川氏を称するに至った。その後裔俊宗の子広照は宇都宮氏，佐竹氏，小田原北条氏に対抗，1590年(天正18)豊臣秀吉の小田原征伐に際しては，小田原城にこもった。しかし4月8日に城を出て降ったため，秀吉は本領皆川1万3000石を安堵し，徳川家康に属させた。

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