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In the Edo period, there was a house in the Kaga clan, dating from Takagi Sadahide. Takagi Sadahide is brother of three takagi families’ first generation. Takagi Sadahide families’ historical book are currently kept in Archives of Modern History Records in Tamagawa Library. This paper introduces this historical books. In addition, the Nishi Takagi family has compiled a number of historical books. Therefore, In this article followed the transition of the description of Takagi Sadahide in the Nishi Takagi families’ historical book. Through this work, I clarified a part of the Nishi Takagi family's compilation of historical books.

In 2012, Mr. Masataka Fukunaga donated documents to Ogaki City. These documents were part of the Nishi-Takagi Family documents formerly in the possession of the Fukunaga family and which Masataka’s father, Wataru Fukunaga, donated to Kamiishizu Town (currently Kamiishizu town, Ogaki City). These documents are to be managed under the name of“Supplementary Nishi-Takagi Family Documents Formerly in the Possession of the Fukunaga Family.”These documents are, in essence, part of the same group of documents as those stored in the Nagoya University Library. This report describes the course of events surrounding the donation of the Supplementary Nishi-Takagi Family Documents Formerly in the Possession of the Fukunaga Family to Ogaki City and presents an overview of the documents. It also presents the results of a survey regarding whether the historical materials included previously in History of Kamiishizu Town correspond to any of the historical materials included within the Supplementary Nishi-Takagi Family Documents.

After Commodore Perry's visit to Japan in the 6th year of the Kaei era (1853), there was much attention paid to the dismantling process of military power of the hatamoto (the direct feudatories of a the shogun), but the hatamoto's original reform activities on military organization have not yet been discussed. The direct retainer of the shogun originally reformed the military system. Taking the western Takagi family whose chigyodaka was 2300 koku of rice, as an example, the reform activity on the military organization of retainer of the shogun after the Perry visit is investigated in the present article. The Western Takagi family adovanced "seiyouryu" gunnery from the Bunkyu era, and came to have unmatched military power because it had a 67-riflemen corps military in the 3rd years of the Keio era (1867). The family built a military training center called "Syugikan" and centered the training on fencing and the art of spear fighting from the Bunkyu era In addition, they prepared weapons and produced two bronze cannon gates and guns. Moreover, there were cooperation between the eastern and northern Takagi families and the relatives of the western Takagi family in which they had to prepare soldiers in the ratio of one person to 100 koku, and train together as three families with "seiyouryu" gunnery.

Source: ICHE Conference Archive - https://mdi-de.baw.de/icheArchive