Arima clan

Arima clan
有馬氏
Hizen Arima family crest
Home province Hizen Province
Parent house Fujiwara clan
Titles Various
Founding year Heian period
Ruled until 1873 (Abolition of the han system)

The Arima clan (有馬氏, Arima-shi) was a Japanese samurai clan.[1]

Hizen Arima

The main Arima clan was also called the Hizen-Arima clan (肥前有馬氏, Hizen-Arima-shi) after its province of origin. This clan claims descent from Fujiwara Sumitomo (d. 941 AD), who settled in Iyo Province after then Tengyō no Ran war.[2] During the late Muromachi period, Arima Haruzumi was a powerful retainer of the Ashikaga shogunate and controlled the Shimabara Peninsula in northern Kyushu, and thus controlled trade between Japan and Portugal. During the Sengoku period, his descendant Arima Harunobu allied with the Shimazu clan of Kagoshima against the Ryūzōji clan at the Battle of Okitanawate. Shortly afterwards, Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Kyushu and by quickly joining forces with him, the Arima were confirmed in their existing holdings.

However, after the start of the Edo period, Arima Harunobu fell from favour due to the events of the Okamoto Daihachi incident, and was eventually relieved of his offices and sentenced to die by Tokugawa Ieyasu. Although his son, Arima Naozumi was married to an adopted daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, at the start of the suppression of the Kirishitan religion, he was transferred from Shimabara to Nobeoka Domain (53,000 koku) in Hyūga Province in 1614. During the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637-1638, he led an army of 4000 troops again the Kirishitan rebels, many of whom were former Arima vassals.

In 1692, Arima Kiyozumi was transferred (i.e. demoted) from Nobeoka Domain to Itoigawa Domain (50,000 koku) in Echigo Province due to mismangement of his domains which resulted in a peasant revolt. Although of almost equal kokudaka as Nobeoka, Itoigawa was a holding of lesser prestige, as it was not permitted a castle. However, in 1695, he was transferred again to Maruoka Domain in Echizen Province, which was permitted a castle. The Arima clan continued to rule Maruoka Domain until the Meiji restoration and abolition of the han system in 1871. The last daimyō of Maruoka, Arima Michizumi served as jisha-bugyō, wakadoshiyori and rōjū in the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa shogunate, and twas made a viscount in the Meiji period kazoku peerage system.

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Murakami-Genji Arima clan

The clan, not related to the above, claims descent from the Akamatsu clan and from the Murakami-Genji.[1]

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  • Arima Noriyori (died 1602)[1]
  • Arima Toyouji (1570–1642)[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Arima," Nobiliare du Japon, pp. 2-3 [PDF 6-7 of 80]; retrieved 2013-5-5.
  2. 1 2 3 Papinot, (2003). "Arima," Nobiliare du Japon, p. 3 [PDF 7 of 80]; retrieved 2013-5-5.
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