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Ie (家) is a Japanese term which translates directly to household. It can mean either a physical home or refer to a family 's lineage. It is popularly used as the "traditional" family structure. The physical definition of an ie consists of an estate that includes a house, rice paddies and vegetable gardens, and its own section in the local ...
The family is called kazoku (家族) in Japanese. It's basically composed of a couple as is the family in other societies. The Japanese family is based on the line of descent and adoption. Ancestors and offspring are linked together by an idea of family genealogy, or keizu, which does not mean relationships based on mere blood inheritance and ...
The Honke (本家) is the main household of Japanese family. It is part of the system of family branching that establishes a multiplied structure to create familial relationships. The head of a household and his successor reside in the honke, while collateral branches establish bunke. [1] The genealogical relationship between honke and bunke is ...
The House of Peers in session with Emperor Meiji giving a speech. (Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Yōshū Chikanobu, 1890) The Kazoku (華族, "Magnificent/Exalted lineage") was the hereditary peerage of the Empire of Japan, which existed between 1869 and 1947. It was formed by merging the feudal lords (daimyō) and court nobles (kuge) into one ...
Kyōke Family. The Fujiwara clan (藤原氏, Fujiwara-shi or Fujiwara- uji) was a powerful family of imperial regents in Japan, descending from the Nakatomi clan and, as legend held, through them their ancestral god Ame-no-Koyane. The Fujiwara prospered since the ancient times and dominated the imperial court until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
Sakai clan (酒井氏) – cadet branch of Nitta clan, by the Tokugawa clan descended from Seiwa Genji. Sakuma clan (佐久間氏) – cadet branch of Miura clan who descended from Kanmu Heishi. Sanada clan (真田氏) – descended from Seiwa Genji (disputed); famous for Sanada Nobushige who is more commonly known as Sanada Yukimura.
A woman (女) married the household (家) of her husband, hence the kanji for "wife" (嫁, yome) and "marriage," lit. "wife entering" (嫁入り, yomeiri). [4] In the absence of sons, some households would adopt a male heir (養子, or yōshi) to maintain the dynasty, a practice which continues in corporate Japan. [6] Nearly all adoptions are ...
Tokugawa Yoshinobu family. The Tokugawa clan (Shinjitai: 徳川氏, Kyūjitai: 德川氏, Tokugawa-shi or Tokugawa-uji) is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 during the Edo period. It was formerly a powerful daimyō family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a ...