Genealogy Books Available?

I am a retired history professor with a special interest in Medieval
Japanese History.....I have a copy of Papinot, but I was wondering if
there are other sources which give detailed genealogies of the
various Daimyo and Samurai families as well as the Imperial Family?

Bob

In the Japanese Language, there are plenty. One series worth
mentioning is the "Rekishi Gunzo" series, which is a series of
Japanese history books. Each book covers a particular person, or
battle, with full color maps, pictures, and especially Genealogies.
I found a treasure trove of Mori genealogy in the 'Mori Motonari'
Rekishi Gunzo book - It had information on not only the Mori
genealogy but on the Amako and Ouchi as well. We actually have some
genealogies which we have translated on the Samurai Archives page:

http://samurai.bigsitecity.com/clanindex.html

Most of these only cover the 'sengoku' timeframe, and the "offline"
versions go farther back, and some are far more complete than others.
I have some in depth genealogy from (if I remember correctly) the
10th - 12th century on a few clans that a friend was able to get for
me, I believe they covered the Minamoto and Taira, but I don't have
them with me right now, (I'm at work). I'd have to scan them into my
computer to make them available.

CEWest

brobpatus@... wrote:

> I am a retired history professor with a special interest in Medieval
> Japanese History.....I have a copy of Papinot, but I was wondering if
> there are other sources which give detailed genealogies of the
> various Daimyo and Samurai families as well as the Imperial Family?

Be warned that Papinot is rife with errors large and small, and is a
product of its time. Unfortunately, there is nothing else in English that
is both so concise and so detailed.

If you speak Japanese, there are many excellent sources I can point you to,
but if not, it's a bit more difficult. Any particular area or period you're
most interested in?

Tony

Hi, Tony,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I am particularly
interested in the lineages of the various mothers of
the Emperors, from the time of TEMNU TENNO up to MEIJI
TENNO.

As you know, they usually have either a FUJIWARA or a
MINAMOTO family name.

Bob

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> As you know, they usually have either a FUJIWARA or a
> MINAMOTO family name.

I've just scanned and uploaded the first of 5 pages of Fujiwara /
Minamoto Genealogy:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/samuraihistory/files/Genealogy/Fujiwara1
.JPG

I also have 2 pages of Saga genealogy, decendants of Iname Saga.

Let me know if you are interested in the other pages, and i'll upload
them to the Yahoo samurai history group homepage as well.

CEWest

Thanks for the chart....Anything you wish to post
would be great!

Bob

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I've added the second page of the genealogy, and will add the rest as
time permits - otherwise, you can find more emperor genealogy on
the "Ogasawara Clan Genealogy site" -

http://hometown.aol.com/uchuujin/oga.html

The clan genealogy includes genealogy of some of the earliest
emperors of Japan.

CEWest