Yamamura Jinbei

Japanese: 山村甚兵衛 - やまむらじんべえ

A noble family that inherited the position of Kiso magistrate during the Edo period. Yamamura Michisuke (Takatoki), a senior vassal of Kiso Yoshimasa, the lord of Kiso in the late Middle Ages, was appointed as Kiso magistrate by Tokugawa Ieyasu after gaining his trust in 1600 (Keicho 5). Yoshikatsu, who inherited his father's estates after Michisuke's death in 1602, was the first to take the name Jinbei, and continued to use the name until Yamamura Yoshiki at the end of the Edo period. Kiso, which was under Jinbei's jurisdiction, was granted to Tokugawa Yoshinao of Owari in 1615 (Genwa 1), but Jinbei Yoshikatsu was transferred to Yoshinao at that time, and he remained in his residence in Fukushima until the end as the de facto Kiso magistrate.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

江戸時代に木曾代官を世襲した名族。中世末の木曾領主木曾義昌の重臣であった山村道祐(良候（たかとき）)が，徳川家康の信任を得て木曾代官に挙用されるのは1600年(慶長5)の関ヶ原の戦直後である。02年道祐の死後父の遺跡を継いだ良勝がはじめて甚兵衛を名のり，幕末の山村良祺に至るまで甚兵衛を通称した。甚兵衛管地の木曾は1615年(元和1)に尾張の徳川義直に封与されたが，そのとき甚兵衛良勝は義直に転属したため，以後は事実上の木曾代官として最後まで福島の居館にとどまった。

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