Age: Edo Period
Provenance: The Shogun Art Collection
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Remarks: An original matched set with "mon" or crests of a branch of the Matsudaira Family in Okochi. The Matsudaira clan originated in and took its name from Matsudaira county, in the old Mikawa province. It is known for being the clan into which Tokugawa Ieyusa was born. Before taking the Tokugawa surname, he was known as Matsudaira Takechiyo. The reason for changing his surname from Matsudaira to Tokugawa is to claim to have imperial decent from the Minamoto Family. In adopting the new surname, Ieyasu founded what became the Tokugawa shogunal house. Prior to the ascendancy of Ieyasu as shogun, the Matsudaira clan had 14 branches. While they did not always see eye to eye, many of these branches went on to become lords of domains in their own right during the Edo period. Other Matsudaira branches emerged during the Edo period; these were usually founded by younger sons of the ruling shogun, or sons of the gosanke houses.
The inscription on the mabizashi and kote with gold and silver inlay is Hachiman Daibosatsu, God of The Samurai. Around the mid-ninth century Hachiman was revered as a protector of the capital, and later, with the rise of the Samurai class, he was particularly venerated by the Minamoto clan. In the latter part of the twelfth century, Minamoto no Yoritomo, the founder of the Kamakura shogunate, built a Hachiman shrine at Tsurugaoka in Kamakura.
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