Nishio clan

Nishio 西尾
Nishio family crest
Home province	Mikawa Province
Parent house	Kira clan, Seiwa Genji
Titles	Oki-no-kami
Founder	Nishio Yoshitsugu
Final ruler	Nishio Tadaatsu
Founding year	1530
Dissolution	1910
Ruled until	1873 (Abolition of the han system)

In this Japanese name, the surname is Nishio.

Nishio clan (西尾氏, Nishio-shi) was a Japanese samurai kin group.

History

The clan claims descent from the Kira clan, a branch of the Seiwa Genji line. Kira Yoshitsugu, a son of Kira Mochihiro, served under Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu adopted the family name of Nishio. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the Nishio, as hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa clan, were classified as one of the fudai daimyō clans.

Nishio Yoshitsugu was given the 12,000 koku Haraichi Domain in Musashi Province in 1602. His son, Nishio Tadanaga was transferred to the 20,000 koku Shirai Domain in Kōzuke Province in 1616, and subsequently to Tsuchiura Domain (Hitachi Province) from 1617-1649. The clan then ruled Tanaka Domain (Suruga Province) from 1649-1679, Komoro Domain (Shinano Province) from 1679-1682, and finally settled at Yokosuka Domain (Tōtōmi Province) from 1682-1868.

After the Meiji Restoration, the Nishio clan was transferred to the short-lived Hanabusa Domain in Awa Province, and was subsequently granted the kazoku title of viscount (shishaku).

References

• Appert, Georges and H. Kinoshita. (1888). Ancien Japon. Tokyo: Imprimerie Kokubunsha.
• Papinot, Edmund.. (1906) Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du japon. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha...Click link for digitized 1906 Nobiliaire du japon (2003)

External links

• (in Japanese) Nishio clan on Harimaya's "Buke-kaden"